Nigerian Doctor on Times 100 Most Influential List

Time Magazine has released its 2023 list of the 100 most influential people in various fields. The formidable list includes icons like King Charles III, leaders like Joe Biden, Titans like Lionel Messi and Beyonce, and innovators like Nigeria’s Dimie Ogoina, a Professor of Medicine at the Niger Delta University.

Dr. Ogoina is a Nigerian Professor and President of the Nigeria Infectious Diseases Society. He is notable for sounding the alarm in 2017 that the world should take notice of monkeypox as it was showing a new presentation in Nigeria with the capacity to become a global health burden. True to his prediction monkeypox, now called mpox became a global outbreak affecting many countries with 86,956 mortalities to date.