Obasanjo II / Yar'AduaDirector-General, National Agency for Food & Drug Administration & Control· 12 April 2001 — 31 December 2008
Prof. Dora Akunyili
Pioneer reformer of NAFDAC. National icon of the war on counterfeit drugs.
The record
Dora Nkem Akunyili (1954–2014) became Director-General of NAFDAC on 12 April 2001 and transformed the agency into one of the most credible federal regulators of the Fourth Republic.
She survived an assassination attempt in December 2003 in which gunmen riddled her car with bullets in Anambra State. Counterfeit-drug seizures multiplied 50-fold over her tenure.
She later served as Minister of Information & Communications (2008–2010). She died in India of cancer on 7 June 2014.
Sources
- Akunyili, The War Against Counterfeit Medicine (Safari, 2010)
- WHO — Counterfeit Medicines Programme reports, 2003–2008
Tier 1 · primary
Courts. Gazettes. National archives.
Tier 2 · corroborating
OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.
Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged
Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.