I have a good news
I have created an online healthcare community
THE MEDIVA HEALTHCARE ONLINE COMMUNITY
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this online community was created to help attend to the health needs of people globally at the fastest time possible.
And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision and engrave it so plainly upon tablets that everyone who passes may be able to read it easily and quickly as he hastens by.
Dr Best
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The journey that began with a dream has finally reached this beautiful milestone.
Through God’s grace, countless lessons, and unwavering support, it’s time to sign out.
I would be honoured to have you there.
God did!
Dr. Best 💡
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You are cordially invited to the official SIGN OUT of the 51st graduating class Doctor of pharmacy university of Benin
Date: 4th august 2026
Time : 3pm
Venue: Doctors house
See you there
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PHARMACISTS SUCCESS STORY
“They shot at her car. A bullet grazed her skull. She kept going and cut fake drugs in Nigeria by 80%.”
Today’s spotlight: Professor Dora Nkem Akunyili (Former Director-General, NAFDAC.)
Her rise, stage by stage:
If you’ve ever wondered whether one pharmacist can meaningfully change an entire country’s health outcomes, her life is the answer and you can be the next Dora Akunyili in the history of pharmacy practice.
Her story is proof that the regulatory side of pharmacy isn’t a quiet, background career it can be one of the most consequential, courageous paths this profession offers.
A closing word for the younger generation of pharmacists:
Dora Akunyili didn’t just do a difficult job. she faced literal gunfire for insisting that Nigerians deserved real, safe medicine.
After nearly eight years leading NAFDAC, she was appointed Minister of the Federal Ministry of Information and Communication in December 2008, extending her national impact beyond pharmaceutical regulation into broader public service.
Stage 3. Measurable, Historic Impact:
Under her leadership, counterfeit drug sales in Nigeria dropped by an estimated 80%, with her strategies cutting fake drugs and food in circulation by 70% during peak enforcement. it was a fundamental transformation of the regulatory system
The response from counterfeiters was severe they burnt down NAFDAC offices, trashed laboratories, and threatened her family’s lives. She survived a shooting attempt in her car, where a bullet grazed her skull.
She found that a World Health Organisation survey had revealed more than half the drugs on sale in Nigeria were counterfeit or sub-standard. Rather than managing the problem quietly, she built a new team of inspectors, began prosecuting importers of fake drugs & upgraded premises
Stage 2. The Call to Public Service (2001):
She was appointed Director General of NAFDAC in April 2001, stepping into an agency facing what would later be described as one of the greatest public health crises in the country’s history.
Stage 1: Academic foundation
Before entering public service, Akunyili built her career as a pharmacist and academia working as a senior lecturer and consultant pharmacologist in the College of Medicine at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN)