DR OLANREWAJU JAYEOLA ADEBAYO (PhD)

CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Name: OLANREWAJU JAYEOLA ADEBAYO

2. Date of Birth: 20th August, 1957

3. Nationality: Nigerian

4. State/Local Government: Ogun State, Abeokuta South Local Government

5. Current Postal address: National Orientation Agency (NOA)

National headquarters Block B,
Federal Secretariat Complex Area1,
Garki-Abuja. P.M.B 27
(098) 2346849 (Home).

6. Telephone: 0803-349-7161, 09-2346138 (Office)

7. Executive Director; National Orientation Agency April 2002

Political and Civic National Headquarters, Garki, Abuja. to date
Education.

NATURE OF WORK:

a. Initiate and supervise the execution of the Agency’s policies/programmes in the areas of
Advocacy of Government Policies/Programmes nationwide.

b. Study prevailing national issues and initiate and supervise the implementation of
appropriate programmes nationwide.

c. Civic and Democracy Education Nationwide

d. Governance Education Nationwide

e. Coordination of Government Relationship with the Civil Society in Nigeria

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f. Liaison with Development Partners

PROJECTS EXECUTED
a. Nationwide Voters Education Campaign towards the INEC’s computerized Register
of voters.

b. Initiated and Supervised the Nationwide Campaign on the National Identity Card
Project.

c. Initiated and Executed the All Parties Conference in February 2003.

d. Initiated and Supervised the Agency’s Campaign on ``Know Your Parties`` a

programme designed to educate Nigerians on the names and symbols of all the
registered Political Parties in Nigeria both in 2003 and 2007.

e. Initiated and Coordinated the national conference on the Nigeria Police and the Civil
Society – Building Partnership For the 2007 General Election and Beyond on
December 1 2006 at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja.

f. Initiated and Coordinated a Two-day Civil Society Roundtable on the 2007 General
Election which was held in January 19, 2007 at the Rock View Hotel, Abuja.

g. Initiated and has been Chairperson, National Technical Committee on Civic

Education which was inaugurated in January 2006 by the then Honourable Minister
of Information and National Orientation Mr. Frank Nweke Jnr.

Secured fund for the development and subsequent review of the Civic
Education Manual with the support of the USAID

Facilitated the development and circulation of a national curriculum on
Civic Education

Production of text-books on civic education from primary 1 to Senior
Secondary School SSS3

Achievement of national consensus on the critical relevance of civic
education as a major infrastructural requirement for the development and
sustenance of Democracy in Nigeria

Implementation of Community Civic empowerment Programme (Political
Education/Governance Programme) in twelve communities in Delta,
Bayelsa and Rivers States

h. Initiated and has been Chairperson, Government/Civil Society Partnership

Programme which is currently implementing a World Bank Supported Governance
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 Programme in eight Pilot states. The Committee was formally inaugurated on January
2006 by the then Hon. Minister of Information and National Orientation Mr. Frank
Nweke Jnr. The Committee has produced a Budget Tracking Training Manual which
is part of a Civil Society Capacity Building Programme aimed at encouraging the
demand side of governance.
i. Convened the First Retreat for Civil Society organisation in Nigeria
j. Organized the first interface between the SSS and the Civil Societies in Nigeria
k. Built the Capacity of NGOs on governance in eight States (ie Lagos. Cross River,
Bauchi, Kwara, Kaduna, Kano, Anambra, FCT.)

N.B Please note that funding of the Agency’s voters education efforts in 2003 and
2004 general and local Governments elections respectively, as well as the
Governance were entirely from donor agencies. I was singularly responsible for these.

WORKING EXPERIENCE:

8. Director National Orientation Agency Ogun State June 1994-April 1997

Directorate, Abeokuta, June 1994

National Orientation Agency April 1997-April 1999

Ondo State Directorate, Akure

National Orientation Agency, Ogun State May 1999-March 2002

Directorate, Abeokuta

NATURE OF WORK:

a. Chief Operations and Accounting Officer of the Directorate

b. Provision of Operational guidelines and policies for regularizing implementation

strategies in all local government areas of the State.

c. Organization and establishment of action plan on the utilization of resources for

implementation of approved agency’s activities.

d. Establishment of criteria for performance standards and targets within the state and
design evaluation and monitoring systems for on-going projects.

e. Review of operational performance results and devising strategies for better performance.

f. Initiating and recommending to the Headquarter desirable changes in policies, systems

and procedures as well as major action plans.

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 g. Monitoring social and economic development and trends in each local Government area
of the State.

h. Planning and development of Agency’s personnel and community leaders in the State.

i. Formulating a systematic approach for research and development in the State.

j. Preparing for Board approval, annual business plans with their budgetary implications.

8. SENIOR LECTURER, Department of Political Science, Ogun State University,

Ago- Iwoye, Ogun State.

NATURE OF WORK:

i. Teaching and Research

ii. Special Interest Areas

a. Public Policy and management

b. Development Administration

c. Policy Implementation

iii. Acting Head, Department of Political Science September, 1992 – Jan. 1993

iv. Chairman, Department of Political Science’s 1993 - 1994

Post Graduate Programme Committee

10. BOARD Family Economic Advancement Programme, Ondo State October

MEMBER 1997 – May 1999.
11. MEMBER WAEC State Committee, Ondo State. April 1997 – May 1999.
12. CHAIRMAN Inter-Ministerial Committee on Environmental Sanitation, Ogun
State, 1994 – 1996.
13. MEMBER Mass Literacy and Adult Education Agency, Ogun State 1994 – 1997
14. MEMBER Mass Literacy and Adult Education Agency, Ondo State, April 1997
– May 1999

HEAD, Department of Political Education, Directorate for Social Mobilization

(MAMSER) Ogun State Directorate, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

NATURE OF WORK:

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 i. Conceptualizing, Planning and Execution of Political Education Programmes/Policies

ii. Co-ordination of the Directorate’s Political/Voter’s Education Programmes in Mass

media

iii. Collection, Collation and Analysis of Data Concerning Political Education.

iv. Initiation and Execution of Community Development Forum – A Programme Designed

to Enhance rural Participation in How to Solve Development Problems facing the State.

16. PRESS OFFICER: Ogun State Ministry of Information Seconded to the Commissioner
for Health, Ogun State. December 1980 – September 1981.

NATURE OF WORK:

A professional public relations position, I was saddled with the responsibility of

projecting the then Government’s free health service. My job also involved liaison with
the mass media and the publication of handbills and booklets on the Health Programme.
One of such publications was “Building a Healthy Society: The Ogun State Example”.
The booklet was an appraisal of the Health Policy.

17. SUB-EDITOR: Nigerian Television, Channel 12, Abeokuta September 1980 –

December 1980.

18. STUDIO MANAGER (Trainee): Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria

(External Service), Ikoyi, Lagos. November 1977 – September 1978

NATURE OF WORK:
Operating radio communication equipment within the studios of the Voice of Nigeria, Recording
of Programmes and Broadcasting same on the Station’s Frequencies.

19. Regular Book Reviewer with the West Africa Magazine, London, 1982 – 1984

20. Consultant to the Ogun State Rural Development Board on the Training of Officials of
Community Development Councils. September, 1980

21. Consultant to the Ogun State Emergency Relief Agency on the Training of Trainers for
Emergency Relief Operations in Ogun State. September, 1991.

22. Consultant to The Ogun State Ministry of Justice for the Training of Local Governments
Chairmen and Councilors on the relationship between the Executive and the Legislature
at the Local government Level. January 1993.

23. Consultant to the Lagos State Local government Service Commission to mount similar
course in (22) above. March – April, 1993.
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24. Consultant to the Gateway bank to organize a course on Corporate/Strategic Planning
for Bankers and Insurers. October, 1993.

25. Consultant to the Ogun State Local Government Service Commission to carry out a
management appraisal training on the implementation of the Primary health Care in Ogun
State. This involved Doctors, Nurses and Health Superintendents. August 1992.

26. Consultant to the State Bureau for Local Government to organize a course on Financial
Management for Directors of Personnel Management and Auditors at the Local
government Level. September, 1993.

27. Consultant to Millennium Management Consultants on the Training of selected officials

of the NNPC on Contracts and Negotiations. October 1994.

28. Consultant to Millennium Management Consultants on the Training of selected NITEL

officials on Contracts and Negotiations. January 3-5, 1995.

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS AND THESES

1. O.J. Adebayo – Namibia: A Study of the Interests and Approaches of the Internal and
External Parties to the Conflict (1960-1980) (An unpublished Master of arts Degree
Thesis in International Relations Submitted to the University of Keele, England
1984).

2. Lai Osho and Lanre Adebayo (eds) – Communication and Rural Development in
Nigeria (Millennium Investment Limited, Abeokuta 1990)

3. O.J. Adebayo (Ed) – Constitution – Making and National Development. (Directorate

for Social Mobilization, Abeokuta, Ogun State.)

4. O.J. Adebayo (Ed) Evolving A more Effective Local Government in Nigeria

(Directorate for Social Mobilization, Abeokuta).

5. O.J. Adebayo (Ed) – The Nigerian Elite and Social Mobilization (Directorate for
Social Mobilization, Abeokuta).

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 6. P.A. Okuneye and O.J. Adebayo – Towards Self-Sufficiency in Food Availability
(Directorate for Social Mobilization, Abeokuta 1989).

7. O.J. Adebayo – Problems of Policy Implementation in Nigeria: A Study of The Ogun

State Agricultural Development Prograrmme (An unpublished Dissertation submitted
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in
Public Administration, University of Benin, Benin 2000).

8. Lanre Adebayo (Ed) – Source Book on Political Parties Manifestoes and

Constitution (Abuja, NOA, 2007).

9. Lanre Adebayo (Ed) Directory of NGOS in Nigeria (Abuja 2008, Reprographics Ltd)

10. Lanre Adebayo – Budget Tracking Training Manual (Abuja 2008, The World Bank)

11. Lanre Adebayo et al (Ed) – Source Book on Civic Education (Abuja 2008,
Reprographics )

ARTICLES:

12. Lanre Adebayo-The Development Journalism Concept and Nigerian Journalists. An

Agenda in Lai Oso and Lanre Adebayo (Eds) Communication and Rural
Development in Nigeria. (Millennium Investments Limited, Abeokuta 1990)

13. O.J Adebayo- Mobilization for Development A Case for two-tier Development
Oriented Local Government system. (Paper presented at the Workshop on Local
Government Administration in Ondo State Organized by the Faculty of Social
Sciences, Ondo State University, Ado-Ekiti, July 22-25 1985).

14. O.J. Adebayo – Rural Development in Historical Perspective (Paper Presented at the
Workshop on Accelerated and Integrated Rural Development Organized by the Ogun
State Rural Development Board on October 16-19, 1989) at the University of
Agriculture, Abeokuta.

15. O.J.Adebayo – Agricultural Innovation and the Dynamics of a Largely Peasant

Society in P.A Okunneye and O.J. Adebayo (Eds) Towards Self-Sufficiency in
Food Availability (Directorate for Social Mobilization, Abeokuta 1990).

16. O.J Adebayo – The Nigerian Elite: A Conceptional Clarification in O.J. Adebayo
(Ed) The Nigerian Elite and Social Mobilization (Directorate for Social Mobilization,
Abeokuta 1989).

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17. O.J. Adebayo – SWAPO: Vanguard of a New Order in Namibia (Paper presented at
the Conference of Review of African Political Economy at the University of
Liverpool, England, September 26-28, 1986).

18. O.J. Adebayo – Planning Transitions. The Need for fundamental Re-appraisal of
Nigeria’s Democratic Worldview (Paper presented at the Conference of Nigerian
Political Science Association at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, May 17-21,
1987).

19. O.J. Adebayo – Mass Media and Democratic Mobilization: The Need for a
Development Oriented Media Practice (Paper presented at the 15th Annual
Conference of the Nigerian Political Science Association, Ibadan, June 26-July 1,
1998).

20. O.J. Adebayo – Development Issues in the new Nigerian Constitution (Paper
delivered at the Seminar on the New Constitution and the Transition to Civil Rule
Programme organized by the Nigeria Navy Training Command, Lagos July 25-26,
1989).

21. Lanre Adebayo – Political Dynamics and Development in Ogun State in Giant Strides
Series (VBO, Lagos, 1992).
22. O.J. Adebayo – Democratizing the Development Planning Process in Nigeria:
Strategies and Tactics (Paper delivered at the National Conference organized by the
Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Benin,
April, 1995).

23. O.J. Adebayo – Management of Public Enterprises in Ogun State: Issues and
Prospects (Paper presented at the Post-Graduate Seminar Series of the Department of
Political Science and Public Administration, University of Benin).

24. O.J. Adebayo – Mobilization as a Critical Element of Public Policy Formulation and
Implementation: Analysis of Strategies and Tactics. (Paper presented at the post-
Graduate Seminar Series of the Department of Political Science and Public
Administration, University of Benin. June 14, 1998.)

25. O.J. Adebayo – Social Science Research Methods and the Crisis of Relevance of
Public Establishments in Nigeria. (Paper presented at the Post-Graduate Seminar
Series of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University
of Benin July 30, 1998).

26. O.J. Adebayo – Models of Decision making and the Budgetary Process in Nigeria
with Special Reference to Ogun State (Paper presented at the Post-Graduate Seminar
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 Series of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University
of Benin. August 10, 1998).

27. O.J. Adebayo – Revolving Inter and Intra Communal Crises in Nigeria (Paper
presented at the two-day National Workshop on Enhancing Nigeria’s National
Rebirth organized by the National Orientation Agency at the Hill Station Hotel, Jos
Between 5th and 6th June, 2000).

28. O.J. Adebayo – Corruption and National Development (Paper presented at the NYSC
Orientation Lecture Series, Sagamu, 2000).

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED AND QUALIFICATIONS

1. Doctor of philosophy Degree in Public Administration (Public Policy Management)

University of Benin. 1999.

2. University of Keele, Keele, England – M.A. (International Relations) 1984

3. College of Journalism, Fleet Street, London – Higher Diploma in Journalism and Mass
Communication. 1982

4. Nigeria Institute of Journalism, Lagos – Diploma in Journalism. 1980.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

1. Member, Institute of Management Consultants, Kaduna.

2. Associate Member, Nigerian Institute of Management.

3. Associate Member, Nigerian Institute of Personnel Management.

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