Nigeria’s president, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been commended for appointing Professor [Mrs] Idia Ize-Iyamu, as substantive Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Benin City.
This was contained in a congralatory statement to Professor Ize-Iyamu, issued by Mr. Okoyo, a Canada-based Chartered Accountant and Behavioural Scientist.
Okoyo said that the appointment by President Tinubu, was apt and worthwhile, adding that it had capped Prof Ize-Iyamu’s erudition, hardwork, and immesurable contributions to the medical profession, health education and the society.
Mr. Okoyo, popularly known as GFO, also said that although Prof Ize-Iyamu merited the position, he however, hailed the appointment as timely and a confirmation of President Tinubu’s disposition to the inclusion of the women folks in Nigerian polity.
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“It is joy to me and my family that the siamese wife of my great friend and confidant, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, is elevated to such a lofty position, where she will continue with her usual caregiving work humanity,” Okoyo a stalwart of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), who is also notable in the party’s diaspora activities, said.
The appointment of Prof Idia Ize-Iyamu, a professor of Orthodontics with the University of Benin (UNIBEN) and a Consultant Orthodontist of the UBTH, and a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, is the first time a woman is tapped to head the institution since its establishment in 1971 as Midwest Medical Centre in 1971, which later transformed to a university teaching hospital, in 1973.
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