Dr Victoria Egunjobi has taken over as Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Health Facilities Monitoring and Accreditation Agency with effect from 13 April 2026. The state government announced the appointment on its official X handle through a letter signed by Head of Service Bode Agoro. She replaces the outgoing head of the agency responsible for regulating more than 3 800 hospitals clinics diagnostic centres and other health outfits across the state. No reason was given for the change at the agency which inspects licences and sanctions erring providers.
Swapping the regulator of 3 800 health facilities without a public handover note is vintage Lagos: the biggest sub-national health market in Africa keeps its gatekeepers rotating while patients never learn why.
The state keeps no public register of which of those 3 800 outlets have lost accreditation or why; past HEFAMAA chiefs have left with no published scorecard. Egunjobi therefore inherits a black box: a vast private sector that thrives on opacity and a citizenry that discovers quack clinics only when bodies pile up.
For Lagosians who have paid for fake scans or woken up to shuttered dialysis centres, the name on the door matters less than whether the next inspection visit will be posted online in real time. If she opens the data, patients can finally ditch the expensive habit of "testing first" at three different labs before trusting a result.
Another quiet shuffle at the top suggests the playbook has not changed—only the actors.
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