PresidentMuhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of two new aides for his wife,Aisha.
The two new appointees are Dr. RukayyatuAbdulkareem Gurin and Dr. Mohammed Kamal Abdurrahman. Gurin has beenappointed as Senior Special Assistant to the President on Administration andWomen Affairs, while Abdurrahman was appointed as Senior Special Assistantto the President on Health and Development Partners in the Office of the FirstLady.
Gurin is a doctorate holder in Curriculum Instructionfrom the University of Maiduguri and was at various times a Lecturer at theUniversity of Maiduguri; a Deputy Director at the National UniversitiesCommission (NUC); and a Director at the National Institute of Policy andStrategic Studies, Kuru.
Gurin, who was a Senior Lecturer at Baze University inAbuja before her appointment, replaces Dr. Hajo Sani, who was recentlyappointed as Nigeria’s delegate to the United Nations Educational andScientific Organisation (UNESCO) in France.
Abdulrrahman on the other hand holds a Bachelor ofMedicine and Surgery degree from the University of Maiduguri. He worked atthe University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Yola; Specialist Hospital,Sithobela Health Centre in Swaziland; and the National Agency for the Controlof AIDS (NACA) before his appointment as the Personal Physician to the FirstLady in 2015 and reappointed in 2019.
Abdulrrahman will combine his new role with his
position as the Personal Physician to the First Lady.