Ex-Nigerian VP Osinbajo appointed adviser to Africa CDC Director General

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has named erstwhile Nigerian Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo arsenic a elder strategical advisor to its Director-General, Jean Kaseya.

In a connection released connected Monday and obtained by Politics Nigeria, the bureau explained that Osinbajo’s assignment comes astatine a captious signifier arsenic it pushes guardant the Africa Health Security and Sovereignty (AHSS) agenda.

The inaugural focuses connected amplifying Africa’s power successful planetary wellness matters, boosting home funding, fast-tracking section accumulation of aesculapian supplies, and strengthening wellness systems to amended hole for and respond to pandemics.

Kaseya noted that the erstwhile vice-president brings a wealthiness of expertise to the position.

“Professor Osinbajo brings exceptional acquisition astatine the intersection of governance, finance, law, and diplomacy,” helium said.

“At a clip erstwhile Africa indispensable enactment with greater ambition and authorization connected the aboriginal of health, his enactment volition beryllium invaluable.

“This assignment reflects Africa CDC’s com...