Eyitayo LamboListenⓘ was appointed the Nigerian Federal Minister of Health in July 2003, holding office until May 2007 during the second term of the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo.
[1] Lambo was born on 28 December 1944 in Isanlu,[2] the headquarters of Yagba East local government area in Kogi State, Nigeria.
Professor Lambo taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the Universities of Ibadan, Ilorin and Bendel State, 1974 to 1992.
[3] He was elected a Fellow for Operational Research (England), one of the first Africans so honored by that international professional organization in 1986.
[citation needed] On September 17, 2013, Lambo was conferred with a Fellowship by the Nigerian Economic Society (NES) along with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in the presence of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR and the President of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES), Professor Akin Iwayemi.