With investors showing interest in completing the Ikere Gorge Dam power plant, HE Seyi Makinde reflects on difficult choices over scarce public resources, defending development borrowing and arguing that infrastructure must ultimately create an environment capable of attracting private investment.
Ahead of the 2024 Budget for Economic Recovery, HE Seyi Makinde urges citizens to follow actual budget implementation rather than approved line items alone, while reflecting on industrialisation, poverty reduction and government’s role in creating an enabling environment for private investment.
Beginning Blockchain Revolution, HE Seyi Makinde explores how emerging technology could be applied to governance and innovation, while responding to criticism about the pace of his second term by arguing that careful planning should not be mistaken for a lack of ideas.
Following an executive retreat, HE Seyi Makinde defends prioritising long-term investments over politically popular interventions, citing roads connecting Oke-Ogun and other zones to investment and announcing a shift towards reconstructing inner roads in Ibadan.
Following the removal of fuel subsidy, HE Seyi Makinde introduces Sustainable Actions for Economic Recovery (SAfER): food relief for 200,000 vulnerable households, support for smallholder farmers and ₦1 billion in low-interest financing for youth agropreneurs and small businesses.
As he completes most of his second-term cabinet and begins reading Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads, HE Seyi Makinde reflects on learning from history, while responding to the Olodo bridge collapse and signalling further measures to cushion the economic effects of fuel subsidy removal
Following the elevation of 11 Olubadan High Chiefs to Obas, HE Seyi Makinde reflects on how culture evolves, arguing that traditional rulers themselves are best placed to reform traditional institutions, while acknowledging delays in completing his second-term cabinet.
Following the signing of the Electricity Act 2023, which opened the way for an Oyo State electricity regulatory framework, HE Seyi Makinde reflects on political trade-offs, arguing that cooperation and political alignments should be guided by principles — for him, equity, fairness and justice — rather than hostility.
As Omituntun 2.0 begins, HE Seyi Makinde announces plans for OMASED to enforce street-trading, waste and traffic laws, moves to constitute his cabinet and highlights new private investments by Africorp Consortium and Karma Agric.
Drawing lessons from The Plot to Save South Africa, HE Seyi Makinde reflects on firmness in crises, putting public interest above personal interest and resisting uninformed public pressure, as Oyo State prepares to host investors at OYSIBS 2023.
