Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State in Northeast Nigeria has sacked the state’s commissioner of health, Dr Salihu Kwayabura.
The governor’s Special Adviser on Public Relations and Strategy, Malam Isa Gusau, made the announcement on Tuesday in Maiduguri, the state capital.
He noted that Zulum’s directive was part of necessary measures to reposition the ministry.
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Gusau said the governor expressed gratitude to Dr Kwayabura for his “immense contributions” to the development of Borno’s public health sector in nearly two years of the current administration, and the years he had served under the previous administration.
The spokesman announced that Zulum has directed his Chief of Staff, Professor Isa Hussani Marte, who is a professor of pharmacology, a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science with specialty in cancer research, to oversee the state’s ministry of health pending the appointment of a substantive commissioner.
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