President Bola Tinubu has permitted the institution of the National Health Technology and Data Analytics Office (NHTDAO) and appointed Dr Obi Adigwe because the pioneer National Coordinator.
The company can be domiciled within the Office of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare.
The NHTDAO will function a meta-level nationwide platform for coordinating the nation’s digital-health agenda.
It will reinforce, not exchange, the present statutory features of related departments and businesses.
It may also harmonise and empower the private and non-private establishments throughout the well being system, set the requirements that join them, and operationalise the National Digital Health Architecture, permitted by the National Council on Health in November 2025.
The National Coordinator, Dr Adigwe, as Director General of the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, has leveraged science to catalyse interventions in synthetic intelligence, translational analysis, and know-how switch.
He coordinated main tasks, together with the ¥300m Nanotechnology grant and the AFREXIMBank grant for Africa’s first API Training Facility. He led the roadmap improvement that underpinned an €18 million EU grant, the biggest in Africa for the thematic space. During the final pandemic, Adigwe globally showcased African science by enterprise the world’s first evaluation to debunk claims in regards to the Covid Organics preparation.
The Office’s Steering Committee, which supplies strategic path and oversight, contains:
• Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, CON, Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare (Co-chair)
• Mr Olaniyi Yusuf, Chairman of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (Co-chair)
• Dr Iziaq Adekunle Salako, Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare (Alternate Co-chair)
• Ms Kachollom Daju, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
• Mr Idris Alubankudi Saliu, Special Adviser to the President on Technology and Digital Economy
• Dr Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq, National Coordinator, SWAp Coordination Office
• Dr Abdu Mukhtar, National Coordinator, Presidential Initiative to Unlock Healthcare Value Chain
• Dr Muyi Aina, Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency
• Dr Kelechi Ohiri, Director General, National Health Insurance Authority
• Director, Health Planning, Research and Statistics, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
• National Information Technology Development Agency Representative
• Six representatives of the State Commissioners of Health, one from every of the six geopolitical zones
• Pharm Hamza Buhari, Stakeholder representing Industry and Community
The President expects NHTDAO to speed up Nigeria’s transition to a safe, interoperable and data-driven well being system that improves outcomes for all residents, consistent with the Renewed Hope Agenda of his administration.
Bayo Onanuga
Special Adviser to the President
(Information & Strategy)
June 26, 2026