Two Nigerian women have been elected to the Harvard Kennedy School's alumni board, theWILL reports.
Ijeoma Akunyili, daughter of former Nigerian minister of information Dora Akunyili, and Otto Orondam, founder of Slum2School Africa, were elected to serve four-year terms on the board, which is made up of alumni from around the world.
"Ijeoma is the first daughter of Dora Akunyili, the former director-general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and ex-minister of information who passed away in June 2014," reads a statement from the school.
"Otto is the first black chief medical officer at the Jersey City Medical Center (RWJ Barnabas Health) in the United States."
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