The president of the federal republic of Nigeria , Major General Muhammadu Buhari( retd.) has appointed Rukayyatu Gurin as Senior Special Assistant to the president on Administration and women affairs in the office of first Lady .
This was contained in statement released on Monday by Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President on Media and Publicity titled ” Buhari appoints new aides for First Lady”.
In a similar vein, Buhari also approved the appointment of Dr Mohammed Abdurrahman as Senior Special Assistant to the President on Health and Development Partners in the Office of the First Lady.
Abdurrahman holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Maiduguri. He has worked at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Yola Specialist Hospital, Sithobela Health Centre in Swaziland, and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS and as Personal Physician to the First Lady in 2015 and 2019.
- He will continue being the Personal Physician to the First Lady even as he assumes his new role .