NAFDAC Announces New Director General

Dr Abubakar Jimoh, the Spokesperson of the
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration
and Control (NAFDAC), says Mr Ademola Magbojuri
has taken over from Mrs Yetunde Oni as Acting
Director-General (DG).

Jimoh disclosed this while reacting to the
conflicting reports in the media over the retirement
of Oni in an interview with the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abuja.

He explained that the immediate past acting
director-general reached the retirement age of 60
years on Sept. 21, and Federal Government directed
that the most senior director in the the agency
takes charge. He said that Magbojuri, who would
pilot the affairs of NAFDAC until a substantive D-G
is appointed, had received handing over notes on
Friday.

Magbojuri, until this appointment, was in charge of
NAFDAC’s training and research institute in Kaduna.

NAN observed that as at Friday, the NAFDAC head
office in Abuja was still sealed by the union that is
agitating over non-payment of allowances and
appointment of either an acting or substantive D-G.

Recall that NAFDAC’s Medical and Health Workers
Union of Nigeria started an industrial action on
Sept. 22, over improved allowances and
appointment of the new DG of the agency.

The Vice President of the union, Mr Idzi Isua, told
NAN on Friday that they were around the office to
ensure total compliance by the members. Isua said
that the union was demanding for an allowance
known as a specific allowance which other
agencies in the same salary structure with NAFDAC
were benefitting. (NAN)