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Nigeria's former Minister of health, Babatunde Osotimehin, has dies at the age of 68.
Dr. Osotimehin died in the early hours of Monday, according to reports.
Here are nine things you should know about the former Minister of health:
1. Osotimehin was born 6 February 1949 in Ogun state
2. He was appointed on 19 November 2010 as the new Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, for a four-year term. He was reappointed to this position on 21 August 2014. He assumed the position on 1 January 2011 and became the organisation's fourth Executive Director.
3. He held the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
4. He also served as Nigeria's Minister of Health and left the office in March 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet
5. Dr. Osotimehin was the Director-General of the Nigerian National Agency for the Control of AIDS, an agency that coordinates all HIV and AIDS work in a country with more than 150 million people. As chairman of the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) he oversaw the development of systems that, today, manage more than US$1billion. During his tenure as Project Manager for the World-Bank assisted HIV/AIDS Programme Development Project from 2002–2008, he achieved great success
6. Education:
He attended Igbobi College between 1966 and 1971. After his medical studies at University of Ibadan, he received a doctorate in medicine from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, in 1979.
7. He believed humility is the key to engaging people and facilitating change, "humility to engage with the other person of the other community in such a way that they know that you respect them."
8. Awarded the Nigerian national honour, Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), December 2005
9. Survived by five children and three grandchildren.
Dr. Osotimehin died in the early hours of Monday, according to reports.
Here are nine things you should know about the former Minister of health:
1. Osotimehin was born 6 February 1949 in Ogun state
2. He was appointed on 19 November 2010 as the new Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, for a four-year term. He was reappointed to this position on 21 August 2014. He assumed the position on 1 January 2011 and became the organisation's fourth Executive Director.
3. He held the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
4. He also served as Nigeria's Minister of Health and left the office in March 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet
5. Dr. Osotimehin was the Director-General of the Nigerian National Agency for the Control of AIDS, an agency that coordinates all HIV and AIDS work in a country with more than 150 million people. As chairman of the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) he oversaw the development of systems that, today, manage more than US$1billion. During his tenure as Project Manager for the World-Bank assisted HIV/AIDS Programme Development Project from 2002–2008, he achieved great success
6. Education:
He attended Igbobi College between 1966 and 1971. After his medical studies at University of Ibadan, he received a doctorate in medicine from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, in 1979.
7. He believed humility is the key to engaging people and facilitating change, "humility to engage with the other person of the other community in such a way that they know that you respect them."
8. Awarded the Nigerian national honour, Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), December 2005
9. Survived by five children and three grandchildren.
