As a public health physician and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria, he has led the Institute to provide HIV counseling and testing for 8.3 million individuals, anti-retroviral prophylaxis for over 85,000 pregnant women, and enrolment of more than 465,000 people into the HIV care program and over 3,000 multi-drug resistant patients into treatment. He obtained his medical degree from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Nigeria and subsequently his Master’s Degree in Public Health at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria.