Health Sector

Dr. Osagie E. Ehanire, the Honourable Minister of Health, Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a Medical Doctor and an outstanding surgeon. He an indigene of Edo State in Nigeria. He holds a degree in Medicine from Ludwig Maximillians University, Munich. He also holds post graduate Diplomas from the Teaching Hospital of the University of Düsseldorf and Essen, Germany in the areas of Anaesthesiology, General Surgery, and Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery. Dr. Osagie has rendered his services as a member of various medical Boards both within and outside Nigeria. He was Senior Registrar, Clinical Instructor of University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), and a Member of the old Bendel and Edo States Hospital Management Board, Consultant Surgeon, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, Clinical Course instructor, Fracture Internal Fixation course, BG Accident Hospital, Duisburg, Germany.

Prof. Mohammed Nasir Sambo is the Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Before his appointment, he was the Provost, College of Medicine, and Kaduna State University. Prof. Sambo, a Professor of Health Policy and Management, has an enviable academic and operational background in Health Care Financing. He graduated with an MBBS from the University of Jos in 1993, and a distinguished Fellow of the West African College of Physicians (2003), where he was the Best Candidate in the Final Fellowship examination. In the academic wing of his illustrious public service career, Professor Sambo held the positions of Deputy Dean, Faculty of Medicine, and Head, Department of Community Medicine, both at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Prof. Sambo was also prominent in the formative years of the NHIS, having served in the Scheme and attained the level of Assistant Director/Zonal Coordinator in the South West Zone of the Scheme. He was also the Assistant General Manager and Head of HMO Division at the NHIS Headquarters, in Abuja. He was seconded to the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), where he was Assistant Director/Zonal Coordinator, North West Zone of the Agency. He served as a Member of the Ministerial Technical Working Group that developed the National Healthcare Financing Policy, a framework that largely facilitated the formal flag off of NHIS in June 2005 by President Olusegun Obasanjo. He was also a member of the Ministerial Technical Working Groups for the Public Private Partnership Policy on Health, the National Health Strategic Development Plan, and on National Health Policy. Professor Sambo’s scholarly distinction attracted national and international institutions, which engaged him as Consultant or Resource Person for strategic activities, such as the Health Sector Reform Agenda of the Federal Ministry of Health, Blueprint for Accelerating PHC Implementation in Nigeria, National Strategic Framework Development Committee of NACA and the National Health Council of Nigeria. He also worked on several projects with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

Dr Ola studied medicine and surgery at the Hull York Medical School after which she worked in Acute Medicine in the UK. She then went on to be awarded the Japanese MEXT scholarship which allowed her to further her studies in Tokyo, Japan, the fellowship focused on lab-based research with induced pluripotent stem cells. She is currently completing her Master’s degree in Finance and Economic Policy at the University of London.
Her post-graduate areas of study also include Pre-hospital Emergency care, Healthcare leadership and Healthcare delivery. She has a certificate in Economic policy making from IE business school, Spain and a certificate in Accounting for decision making from the University of Michigan in the United States.