Tinubu Appoints Obi Adigwe Coordinator Of Newly Created Health Agency

Dr. Obi Adigwe would become the pioneer Coordinator of the newly established National Health Technology and Data Analytics Office, NHTDAO, recently created by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. 

The new Federal Government Agency is saddled with the responsibility of driving Nigeria’s Digital Health Transformation.

Adigwe’s appointment was announced in a statement issued on Friday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, who stated that the newly created office will operate under the Office of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare.

The Agency will also serve as the country’s central coordinating platform for digital health and data analytics.

It is, however, expected of the Adigwe’s led Agency to strengthen collaboration with other relevant government agencies and private sector stakeholders while providing a unified framework for digital health implementation nationwide.

The statement reads:

“The NHTDAO will serve as a meta-level national platform for coordinating the country’s digital-health agenda.

“It will reinforce, not replace, the existing statutory functions of relevant departments and agencies.

“It will also harmonise and empower the public and private institutions across the health system, set the standards that connect them, and operationalise the National Digital Health Architecture, approved by the National Council on Health in November 2025,” the statement said.

The statement stressed that Pesident Tinubu named Adigwe, the current Director-General of the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, NIPRD, as the pioneer National Coordinator of the new office.