Major General Abimbola Olatilewa Amusu is a Nigerian soldier who commanded the
Nigerian Army Medical Corps
The Nigerian Army Medical Corps (NAMC) is an administrative corps of the Nigerian Army tasked with medical functions. It is responsible for "general health matters in the Army". The NAMC was created in 1956 and adopted its current name in 1960. I ...
from 2015 to 2018. She was the second female officer in the history of the Nigerian Army Medical Corps to have commanded the corps. She was appointed after the retirement of Major General Obashina Ayodele.
Career
Amusu holds a
Master of Business Administration (MBA) (Health Management) from
Lagos State University, She is also an examiner with the
National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria
The National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria is a parastatal of the Federal Government Ministry of Health, charged with the responsibility of postgraduate training of medical and dental doctors in Nigeria.
History
It was established o ...
and a Member of Faculty Board; Faculty of Pathology, at the same college. Amusu is at present the authority of the Nigerian Army Medical Corps. She joined the
Nigerian Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in June 1982, she was the Director and Chief Consultant Hematologist, 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital Kaduna from September 2014 to December before she was made the Medical Corps Commander, an office she held until her retirement in 2018. She retired from the Nigerian Army in December 2018. She was among the two Major Generals and three Brigadier Generals that were pulled out of service at the Nigerian Army Medical Corps in
Lagos in 2018.
See also
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Aderonke Kale
References
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Nigerian female military personnel
Living people
National security of Nigeria
Nigerian Army personnel
Women in law enforcement
Year of birth missing (living people)
Lagos State University alumni