Dr. Adetolu Ademujimi

  Being a paper presented by Dr Adetolu Ademujimi at the Maiden investiture of Rotarian Royal Bunmi Alade, FCTI, FCA, Permanent Secretary, Ondo State Ministry of Physical Planning & Urban Development by Rotary Club of Akure Royals on Friday 21st December 2024 at SITA Hall, Akure Protocols Compliments of the yuletide season to everyone in the room. It’s heartwarming to be here to felicitate Rotarian Royal and Chief Bunmi Alade, a distinguished bureaucrat whom I have been privileged to be acquainted with for about a decade as one our admired “Ogas” in public service of Ondo State. It is also a spec of honour for my humble self to have been requested to deliver a lecture on a burning topic of public governance at his maiden investiture by Rotary Club of Akure Royals. If efficiency, transparency, accountability and adaptability are the expected outcomes of Nigeria’s bureaucratic machinery – the public service, then the subject in consideration is necessary and urgent, but wit...

On this 2024 World AIDS Day, please tell your neighbours, friends, family members, work colleagues and all other Nigerians that HIV is now like hypertension, diabetes mellitus, osteoarthritis – a mere chronic disease! Thanks to the efficacy of the Anti-Retroviral drugs externally sourced by Nigeria’s HIV program development partners and freely offered to Nigerian beneficiaries, with United States President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) bearing the largest funding portfolio, trailed by the Global Fund, and then others. Apart from flickers of input-financing effort through salary payment to healthcare workers who man the HIV clinics and purchase of some units of condoms (and rarely, test kits), the national and subnational governments of Nigeria collectively contribute a meagre percentage to the overall annual financial burden of the program to cater to the estimated 1.63 million Nigerians on treatment for HIV. Overall, the unsaid words appear to accentuate a silent interpret...

My fellow men and women of Ondo State, aren’t you tired of being labelled a civil service-only State? Bureaucracy does not necessarily brew creativity – a desired element for economic expansion. Should we tell ourselves the bitter truth; despite being an oil-producing State with an extra income from 13% oil derivation fund to her monthly allocations from the Federation’s coffers, do you know that Ondo State is not ‘considered’ a ‘major’ player in Nigeria’s economy? If you excuse the common discourse of increment in salary & pension packages of civil servants, perpetual scout for political offices by politicians, and construction of some rural & urban roads as governance dividends, how many local & foreign business conglomerates or die-hard investment optimists think of Ondo State in Nigeria’s post-colonial years, when considering geolocation for investments? Such deep-seated conversations of economic development are uncommon around us. That we are called the “Sunshine S...

    Today, 27 th September 2024 is World Tourism Day, and our statement of proposition to the occupier of Ondo State’s Governorship seat from 24 th February 2025 to 23 rd February 2029 is a transformative set to revolutionize the economic landscape of Ondo State. It is called  Idanre Tourism Zone . To those who may be in the dark, tourism development is no longer an item to be seen as charity by government – Federal, State & Local. It is a business venture that requires intentional conceptualization of a clear tourism vision and deliberate utilization of executive & legislative powers of State to enhance collaboration with the private sector and multilateral organizations/development partners for its implementation. At Sartorius Resources , therefore, it is our responsible corporate opinion that Ondo State government can do more in this regard, using the State’s flagship famous tourist site – Idanre Hills , as a starting point via the proposed Idanre Touris...