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THE Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Dora Akunyili has been promoted to the rank of a Professor by University of Nigeria, Nsukka her alma mater.
THE Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Dora Akunyili has been promoted to the rank of a Professor by University of Nigeria, Nsukka her alma mater.
Akunyili's elevation to a professor of Pharmacology was conveyed to her in a letter dated 30th June, 2005 and signed by one Mrs. Obi Nwala on behalf of the Registrar of the University.
The promotion was approved by the governing council of the university at its 198th meeting held on 26th and 27th May, 2005, takes effect from oct6ober 1, 2000. It would be recalled that before her appointment as Director-General of NAFDAC in April 2001, Dr. Akunyili was a senior lecturer and consultant Pharmacologist at the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The journey to her present promotion dates back to 1978 when she started her working career as Hospital Pharmacist at the University Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, after which she ventured into academics as a Graduate Assistant (Research Fellow) in Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UNN, from 1982-1986. She made a steady progress from Lecturer 1 in 1986 until she was promoted to senior lecture in 1990. In 1992, she transferred her service to College of Medicine, UNN she rose to become a Consultant Pharmacologist in 1996.