{"id":237590,"date":"2026-06-27T17:54:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-president-tinubu-approves-national-health-technology-and-data-analytics-office-appoints-obi-adigwe-national-coordinator\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:54:05","slug":"nigeria-president-tinubu-approves-national-health-technology-and-data-analytics-office-appoints-obi-adigwe-national-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-president-tinubu-approves-national-health-technology-and-data-analytics-office-appoints-obi-adigwe-national-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: President Tinubu Approves National Health Technology and Data Analytics Office, Appoints Obi Adigwe National Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of the National Health Technology and Data Analytics Office (NHTDAO) and appointed Dr Obi Adigwe as the pioneer National Coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The agency will be domiciled in the Office of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The NHTDAO will serve as a meta-level national platform for coordinating the country&#8217;s digital-health agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">It will reinforce, not replace, the existing statutory functions of relevant departments and&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260493.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of the National Health Technology and Data Analytics Office (NHTDAO) and appointed Dr Obi Adigwe as the pioneer National Coordinator. The agency will be domiciled in the Office of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare. The NHTDAO will serve as a meta-level national platform for coordinating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[54710,258,256,47589,8752,8326,6070,9880,5731,6687,257,4687,393,22463,8089,2450,254,5734,8308],"class_list":["post-237590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-adigwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-analytics","tag-appoints","tag-approves","tag-coordinator","tag-data","tag-health","tag-national","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-obi","tag-office","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-technology","tag-tinubu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}