Buhari has made 2 new appointments.
Newsone reports that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Rukayyatu Abdulkareem Gurin as the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Administration and Women Affairs in the Office of the First Lady.
Before the appointment, Gurin was at various times a Lecturer at the University of Maiduguri; a Deputy Director at the National Universities Commission (NUC); and a Director at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru.
The new Senior Special Assistant to the President on Administration and Women Affairs in the Office of the First Lady was a Senior Lecturer at Baze University in Abuja before her appointment.
Gurin replaces Hajo Sani who was recently appointed as Nigeria’s delegate to the United Nations Educational and Scientific Organisation (UNESCO) in France.
Similarly, President Buhari also approved the appointment of Dr. Mohammed Kamal Abdurrahman as Senior Special Assistant to the President on Health and Development Partners in the Office of the First Lady.
Abdurrahman holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Maiduguri. He worked at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Yola Specialist Hospital, Sithobela Health Centre in Swaziland, and at the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) before his appointment as the Personal Physician to the First Lady in 2015 and reappointed in 2019.
Meanwhile, Newsone Nigeria reports that the new Senior Special Assistant to the President on Health and Development Partners in the Office of the First Lady will combine his new role with his position as the Personal Physician to the First Lady.
