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PROF. ADEPOJU ADESHOLA OLATUNDE


Appointed since 1st April, 2015 till date, Prof. Adepoju Adeshola Olatunde, Director-General of the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) has left no room to chance.  The Ph.D holder in Agricultural and Environmental Economics (2002) from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State has taken extra-ordinary steps to see the Forestry Institute to the next level of existence.
 One of such steps is the repositioning of FRIN outstation for better research focus.  Others include renovation of dilapidated structures, repositioning of staff members for optimum performance, reclaiming/security all encroached land and resources of the Institute, successfully enacting on Act to Establish Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria for Forestry Research; Education and Training; establishing Six strategic Rural Resource Centers for communities engagement, capacity building and extension services.

Prof. Adepoju who also holds B.Agric (Agricultural Economics), 1995 and M.Sc. (Agricultural Production, 1991, all from the same Ahmadu Bello University has also developed successfully and implemented Green Economy model for communities around Biodiversity conserved environment and initiated the directive to amend the obsolete bill of the Institute which was passed into law on the 17th August, 2018.
Prof. Adepoju who is friendly and highly sociable was born on the 28th day of May, 1970


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