| LC control no. | no2006083613 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Akunyili, Dora N. |
| Variant(s) | Akunyili, Dora Akunyili, Dora Nkem |
| Associated country | Nigeria |
| Birth date | 1954-07-14 |
| Death date | 2014-06-07 |
| Place of birth | Agulu (Nigeria) |
| Place of death | India |
| Field of activity | Pharmacology Ethnopharmacology Public health Human rights |
| Affiliation | Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Information and Communications National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nigeria) All Progressives Grand Alliance (Nigeria) University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. Teaching Hospital University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. College of Medicine University of Nigeria, Nsukka |
| Profession or occupation | Pharmacologists Pharmacists Medical teaching personnel Nigeria--Officials and employees |
| Found in | 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) Laws regulating information & communications in Nigeria, 2009?: p. iii (Prof. Dora Akunyili, Hon. Minister of Information and Communications) Online Nigeria website, May 10, 2011 (Dr. (Mrs.) Dora Nkem Akunyili) 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) |
| National bib agency no. | 1041C0306E |
| Associated language | eng |
| Quality code | nlc |
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