Former Director General of NAFDAC and ex- Nigeria’s minister of Information, Prof. Dora Akunyili is dead.
She reportedly died in the India after protracted undisclosed illness.
In her lifetime, Akinyili was renowned for her tough stance on public issues. She fought syndicate of importers of fake drugs into the country when she served as the Director General of NAFDAC, a body saddled with regulating food and drugs in Nigeria.
When she served as minister of Information during the regime of late president Umaru Yar’Adua, Akunyili fought the ‘cabals’ that kept the nation in darkness during the health challenge of the late president.
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