Chief Host:

Prof. Labode POPOOLA B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D
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Professor Labode Popoola is a Professor of Forest Economics, born on 28 September, 1960.

He graduated with Bachelor of Science (Honours) in 1984 from the University of Ibadan. He had his Master of Science in Forest Economics and Management in 1987 and Doctor of Philosophy in Forest Economics in 1990, both at the prestigious University of Ibadan, Nigeria. [ Read More... ] 

Host:

Prof. Victor ADETIMIRIN
Email: victor.adetimirin@uniosun.edu.ng

For Planning Committee: 

Dr. John AGBONIFO
Email: john.agbonifo@uniosun.edu.ng

  Prof. Obijiofor Aginam
  Deputy Director & Head,
  United Nations University International, Institute for Global Health,
  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

  Prof. Janice Olawoye, 
  Former Dean, 
  Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, 
  University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

  Prof. Tunde Babawale
  Former Director CBAAC, 
  Department of Political Science, 
  University of Lagos, Lagos.

  Prof. Ahmed Yerima
  College of Humanities,
  Redeemer’s University,
  Ede.

  Prof. Isaac Albert
  Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies,
  University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

  Ms. Ida Mae Fernandez,
  Regional Programme Coordinator,
  Free Movement of Persons and Migration in West Africa Project,
  IOM, Abuja.

  Prof. Janice Olawoye, 
  Former Dean, 
  Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, 
  University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

  Prof. Janice Olawoye, 
  Former Dean, 
  Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, 
  University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

  Prof. Janice Olawoye, 
  Former Dean, 
  Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, 
  University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

Prof. Olufemi Bamiro, Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.	Prof. Abiodun Alao, African Leadership Centre, School of Global affairs, Kings College, London.	Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Former Governor, State of Osun.
	10. Yoruba and The World
	Prof. Duro Adeleke  Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

Discussants:
Dr. Mustapha Hamid, Minister of Inner Cities and Zongo Development, and Former Minister for Information, Accra, Ghana	Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University, Lagos.	Oba Adedokun Abolarin, His Royal Highness, Orangun of Oke-Ila.
Prof. Dele Layiwola, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.	Dr. Tunji Olaopa, Ibadan School of Governance and Public Policy, Ibadan.	Prof. Adetunji Kehinde, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Osun State University, Osogbo.
Prof. Lanre Olaniyan, Director, CESDEV, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.	Dr. Bolanle Wahab, Urban and Regional Planning Department, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.	Prof. Anthony Kola-Olusanya, Department of Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, Osun State University, Osogbo.
Prof. Ayodeji Oluleye, Department of Production and Industrial Engineering, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.	Dr. Nathaniel D. Danjibo, Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.	Prof. Temi Ologunorisa, Department of Meterology and Climate Science, Federal University of Technology, Akure.

Remote Speakers:
1. Prof. Jefferey D. Sachs	2. Dr. Guido Schmidt-Traub	3. Prof. Ikenna Onyido, FRSC, FAAS, FAS
Director, Centre for Sustainable Development Columbia University, New York;  Director, Sustainable Development Solutions Network; Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on the SDGs	Executive Director Sustainable Development Solutions Network,  Paris, France.	Director, Centre for Sustainable Development Nnamidi Azikiwe University,  Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria.
4. Prof. Patrick Paul Walsh	5. Dr. Belay Begashaw	6. Eve de la Mothe Karoubi
Univeristy College Dublin, Chairman, Global Consortium for the Master’s in Development Practice Programme.	Director General, The Sustainable Development Goals Centre for Africa, Kigali, Rwanda.	Senior Manager, Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Paris, France.
7. Prof. Toyin Falola		8. Prof. Albert Ayeni
Jacob and Frances Sanger Chair in the Humanities University of Texas at Austin, USA.		Ethnic Crop Research Specialist; Leader, Rutgers’ Entrepreneurship Ag Program (REAP), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA.

oye Oyinlola Auditorium, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria.

 GLOBAL AFFAIRS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (GASDI) OF OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY

The Global Affairs and Sustainable Development Institute (GASDI) was established by the Senate of Osun State University in October, 2018 with a mandate to address issues of Sustainable Development in unique and effective ways that can fast-track the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. The aim of the Institute is to become a center of excellence in postgraduate teaching and research in all areas of sustainable development. To this end, GASDI will offer Master and Ph.D. degree programmes in:

(i) Sustainable Development Practice,
(ii) Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage Studies,
(iii) Leadership and Governance,
(iv) Peace and Conflict Studies,
(v) Climate and Society, and
(vi) Migration Studies

Situated at the core of Yoruba culture and tradition, the Institute is also poised to pursue research and carry out other initiatives on Yoruba and the world. We will also run short duration certificate courses in these fields/programmes as well as conduct workshops to improve the efficiency of governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Prof. Victor O. Adetimirin 
Acting Director

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Engr. Rauf Aregbesola had his primary and secondary education in Ondo State, and later attended the Polytechnic, Ibadan, where he studied Mechanical Engineering and graduated in 1980.

An associate member of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers (AIIE), member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) and a Fellow of Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Nigerian Association of Technological Engineers (NATE) and Certified Marketing Communications Institute of Nigeria (CMCIN), Rauf Aregbesola has a wealth of experience garnered through dint of hard work in both the public and private sectors such as the Nigerian External Telecommunications now renamed Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd. and Lagos Airport Hotel before establishing his own Engineering Services Company, Aurora Nigeria Limited, in 1986. The company had since its establishment handled numerous major projects for both government and private organizations in most States of the federation.

Politically, he has been no less active and forthright. His involvement dates back to his undergraduate days when he was speaker of the Students’ Parliament (1977/78) at the Polytechnic, Ibadan and the President of the Black Nationalist Movement (1978-1980). He was also an active supporter of other progressive students’ movement nationwide, which earned him, for instance, the life membership of National Association of Technological Students. In June 1990, he became an elected delegate to the SDP Inaugural Local Government Area Congress. In July of the same year, he was also a delegate to its first National Convention in Abuja.

Engr. Aregbesola as a pro-democracy and human rights activist was a major participant in the demilitarization and pro-democracy struggles of the 1990s. He is equally active in community associations, especially in Alimosho, his base, where he remains the Secretary to the LGA Elders’ Forum to date. Prior to his appointment as the Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure (1999 till date) he was Director of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Campaign Organization (BATCO), which engineered the electoral victory of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the Governor of Lagos State in 1999. He performed similar feat using the platform of Independent Campaign Group (ICG) to ensure the re-election of Asiwaju for a second term in office.

Since his appointment and re-appointment, Engineer Aregbesola has continued to confound all with the strength of his commitment to selfless service. His diligence, sincerity and tirelessness in the administration of the vast Ministry of Works and Infrastructure as well as supervision of the Public Works Corporation and State Electricity Board has been acknowledged as being responsible for the outstanding success that has been recorded by the present Lagos State administration especially in road rehabilitation/maintenance and street lighting.

To date, Engr. Aregbesola has successfully rehabilitated about 841 roads, through the Public Works Corporation’s Operation Tax Payers Money in Action and over 600 roads through the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure’s Operation Patch it Well. These two agencies working round the year through road maintenance gangs work by day and night.

In addition the Ministry has awarded about 445 (As at 1st April 2005) roads projects to facilitate socio-economic activities in the State.

Other noble and people-centered programmes of the Ministry include the all year round drainage clearing gang (Drain Ducks), which has cleared over 1250 KM of drains all around Lagos and the establishment of round the year streetlight maintenance programme.

Within this same period, the Ministry under his able leadership has also renovated 665 staff quarters and furnished over 300. An exercise that no government has embarked on over the last 20 years.

The Ministry has been able to supplement the National Electric Power Authority’s power supply with an additional 270 Megawatts through the Independent Power Project. This was the hallmark of the first term of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Administration in Lagos State. Discussions are still ongoing to bring in more private investors into power sector.

Several other novel achievements and innovations due to his visionary qualities and enterprise include the redefinition and application of new aesthetic standards to ministry blocks and offices as corporate workplaces; vision and mission definition, annual staff retreats & modern manpower capacity building trainings; introduction of facility management practices; pioneering achievements in PR (ministry journal) and IT (website) operation; Pioneering Private/Public Sector Partnership Ventures; Award-winning best practices projects; etc.

The strings of awards that have trailed the life of the Honourable Commissioner are eloquent testimonies of all that has been said about him. Earlier in his working life, Engr. Rauf Aregbesola was decorated with the War Against Indiscipline (WAI) Badge of Excellence at the Kujama Satellite Earth Station of the Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd.