Charles Akindiji Akinola @70: The Architect Turning Southwest Region’s Development Blueprints into Reality
On a Thursday in July, Dr Charles Akindiji “Diji” Akinola turned seventy. Most Nigerians only met him this year, as the newly appointed pioneer Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the South-West Development Commission (SWDC). But the man who now sits atop the region’s most ambitious institutional experiment did not arrive there by accident. …