Personality of The Week: Usman Yusuf

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Yusuf is a Professor of Haematology Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation. He has extensive experience practicing medicine across three continents

“Nothing predicts future behaviour as much as past impunity.”
– Jane Mayer

Omoniyi Salaudeen

The Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Usman Yusuf, is on the spot again for the same old reason. Since his assumption of office in July 2017, the embattled Professor of Pediatrics has been enmeshed in controversies ranging from alleged corruption, fraudulent inflation of cost of biometric capturing machines, unlawful staff postings, insubordination to willful defiance of Council’s directive. A quick reference point is his alleged refusal to reflect amendments made by the Council in this year’s budget, as well as alleged move to invest N30 billion belonging to NHIS in Federal Government bonds.

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