I am a product of two famous schools in Nigeria.

I got my Secondary School education at the famous Christ’s School, Ado-Ekiti. The school that has arguably produced more professors than any other one in Nigeria. If you don’t believe me, why don’t you Google it!

Then, in 1989, I got my degree from the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Nigeria’s premier university.

I was an intern at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals complex (OAUTHC) in Ile-Ife from January to December 1990. I then went to the Wadata Clinic in Bida, where I worked as the hospital’s medical officer for the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program.

I became a junior registrar in surgery at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals complex in Ile-Ife in 1994 after passing the West Africa College of Surgeons Primary Fellowship Examination. After passing the Part 1 exam of the Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, where I got the Oritsejolomi Thomas’ Prize for being the best candidate throughout Nigeria for 1996, I started my senior residency and fellowship training in orthopaedic surgery and trauma at the same hospital under Prof. L. M. Oginni, the late Dr. E. A. Bamgboye, and Prof. A. L. Akinyoola.

I passed the final fellowship exam in May 2001 to become a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and took up an appointment as a Lecturer I in the Orthopaedics and Trauma Unit of the Department of Surgery at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology College of Health Sciences, (LAUTECH) Osogbo, and became a professor of surgery in 2010. Between 2009 and 2011, I worked at the College of Health Sciences, Osun State University as the Head of Department of the Department of Anatomy, and then as the Dean of the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences.

In 2011, I transferred my service to Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti as a professor of surgery and traumatology and the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) as consultant orthopaedic surgeon. I was the foundational HOD of Surgery Department from 2011-2013, the Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Sciences in 2013-2015 and the Provost of the College of Medicine from 2015-2019. The first set of doctors from the College graduated during my tenure. After that, I was at the Federal University of Technology, Akure as the foundational Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Sciences before taking up my current appointment as the Acting Chief Medical Director of the University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospitals Complex, (USLTHC), Freetown.

My primary areas of interest are back pain, orthopaedic trauma, and osteomyelitis. But since there aren’t many orthopaedic surgeons in our practice (only four in my centre), I also work in other areas. I’m also interested in a lot of things other than orthopaedics. One of them is statistics, and I authored a book called “Getting to Know SPSS” for people who study medicine. I love watching Football and until a decade ago, I was playing football actively. I was a member of the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife “Let Us Bere” Senior Staff Football Club until it folded up in 2009. I belong to the Ile-Ife Redeemed Christian Church of God’s Dominion Parish.

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I’m not alone, I’m married to the best woman anyone can marry. Ronke, my wife, is a graduate of the University of Ado-Ekiti with a BSc in Economics. She also has a master’s degree as well as an MPhil in Demography and Social Statistics from the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife in Nigeria, where she is also working on her PhD. She does research in her own time. She is also a livestock farmer. Her farm is the Puffic Farms, where she raises pigs and chickens.