UMTH: Prof. Ahmed Ahidjo, Eight (8) Years of Productive Leadership

UMTH: Prof. Ahmed Ahidjo, Eight (8) Years of Productive Leadership

By: Balami Lazarus

Every stage of man is a new chapter of life experiences that manifest itself in rights, privileges, and opportunities to add value to humanity.

Prof. Ahmed Ahidjo has used the privileges and opportunities of his positions, most especially that of Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), for the past eight (8) years to provide and facilitate developments in medical and healthcare delivery with infrastructures, medical materials, and equipment of international standards for the hospital in his eight (8) progressive years.

NEWSng has been there all these years. And here we are, once again in Maiduguri to cover the weeklong packed handing-over ceremony to mark the end of Prof. Ahmed Ahidjo’s eight-year tenure as the 8th CMD since the inception of the hospital over 40 years ago.

Each day was full of activities to bid him farewell. Visitors and guests were always engaged in either commissioning of projects, conferences, lectures, book launches, or inspections of medical facilities/centers, asking questions on how Prof. Ahidjo did it.

The erstwhile CMD Prof. Ahidjo is a consultant interventional radiologist whose eight years of exemplary and visionary leadership began on the 4th September 2018 and end on the 4th September 2026.

There was the first-ever national conference of the Association of Radiologists in Nigeria (ARIN) in the north to be held in Maiduguri at UMTH, where experts in radiology from Europe, Egypt, and Asia met to improve on the standards of this branch of medical science.

There was a book launch “”titled “Duty and Courage”: The Story of Prof. Ahmed Ahidjo,. by Dr. James Bwala.

as part of the activities of the handing-over ceremony that was graced by the state governor, Babagana, Umara Zulum; ministers; Shehu of Borno, Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai; emirs; and some members of the National Assembly, among other high government officials and personalities.

There was also commissioning of the Fertility Care Centre, En-Suite Maternity Complex, and Animal House, where some selected animals shall be kept to be used for experiments by the hospital medical experts/researchers.

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UMTH: Prof. Ahmed Ahidjo, Eight (8) Years of Productive Leadership