Seye Oyeleye is Director General of Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN), the organisation coordinating integrated development among the six Southwest states. In this interview with SEYE OLUMIDE, he speaks on issues of Southwest development, as well as why states’ governors should focus on regional integration. • Southwest Govs Should Separate Infrastructure From Social Development […]
How the Southwest States are achieving Regional Integration through the DAWN-DFID/PERL Partnership Governance, as it has been described, is central to development conversations. The World Bank (1992) defines it as the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country’s economic and social resources for development. According to the Bank, one of […]
“We came here today to find out how the South West is organising itself, how it is cooperating, and how it is working on economic development so that we can work with the states through the DAWN Commission in their areas of cooperation. – Claire Pierangelo, Consul General of the United States Consulate in Lagos […]
In response to the interest shown by the Governments of Six Southwest States towards improving the quality of basic education in the Region, DAWN Commission, with the support of DFID, facilitated a meeting of Education Policymakers and other Stakeholders; ranging from the Education Commissioners to SUBEB Chairs, Chairs of different Houses of Assembly’s Committee on […]
The Director General of DAWN Commission, Mr. Seye Oyeleye, on Wednesday 29th January, paid a working visit to the Country Head, DFID UK in Nigeria, Dr. Christopher Pycroft in Abuja. Department for International Development, DFID, is a major partner of DAWN Commission on several development interventions in Western Nigeria and this visit further reinforces the […]
DAWN Commission’s collaboration with UI’s research and development unit is to technically simplify the nexus between town and gown and at the same time disrupt the perceived gap that exists between university and development practitioners. Government has been called upon to, as a matter of deliberate policy, promote research by strengthening the link between academic […]
The Director-General, Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission, Seye Oyeleye, advised the government to make agriculture attractive, especially to young men and women, for them to see agriculture as an economic activity and as a money-making business like Aliko Dangote Mr Oyeleye who noted that people were still thinking of agriculture as a hoe […]
…the Southwest Governors are pulling their resources together to tackle insecurity and improve the welfare of the people. Southwest governors have reiterated their commitment to the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN), in furtherance of their collective push for regional integration. They have resolved to leverage on their resources to tackle insecurity and promote the […]