Akunyili, Dora N.
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Variants
- Akunyili, Dora
- Akunyili, Dora Nkem
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1954-07-14
Death Date
- 2014-06-07
Has Affiliation
Has Affiliation
Has Affiliation
- Organization: All Progressives Grand Alliance (Nigeria)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. Teaching Hospital
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. College of Medicine
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Birth Place
- Agulu (Nigeria)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Occupation
(lcsh) Nigeria--Officials and employees
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Sources
- found: Research and national development, c2004:t.p. (Dr. Dora N. Akunyili, OFR, FPSN) p. 36. (Dr. Dora N. Akunyili, OFR Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Nigeria)
- found: Laws regulating information & communications in Nigeria, 2009?:p. iii (Prof. Dora Akunyili, Hon. Minister of Information and Communications)
- found: Online Nigeria website, May 10, 2011(Dr. (Mrs.) Dora Nkem Akunyili)
- found: Wikipedia, September 28, 2023(Dora Akunyili; Dora Nkem Akunyili; birth name Dora Edemobi; born 14 July 1954, Agulu, Anambra State, Nigeria; studied pharmacology at the University of Nigeria [Nsukka], graduated 1978, Ph.D. in ethnopharmacology 1985; worked as hospital pharmacist at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (U.N.T.H.), Enugu State; in 1981 became a Graduate Assistant in the FaU.N.N. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UNN; Senior Lecturer 1990, Consultant Pharmacologist, College of Medicine; became Zonal Secretary of the Petroleum Special Trust Fund (P.T.F.) in 1996; appointed by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2001 as Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), serving until 2009; organized a war against counterfeit drugs, motivated by her sister's death at age 21 from injections of fake insulin; this resulted in death threats and an assassination attempt; appointed Minister of Information and Communications in 2008; resigned on December 16, 2010 to run for office as a senator representing Anambra Central in the National Assembly, for the APGA [All Progressives Grand Alliance], defeated; won many awards for her work in pharmacology, public health and human rights; died 7 June 2014 in India, in a specialist cancer hospital, from uterine cancer; her husband, medical doctor Chike Akunyili, was assassinated in 2021 while returning from an event to honor his wife held in Onitsha)
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Change Notes
- 2006-08-10: new
- 2023-09-29: revised
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