Bode Adediji, a renowned professional and former president of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) and principal partner of Bode Adediji Partnership (BAP), a multi-disciplinary real estate firm, spoke to CHINEDUM UWAEGBULAM on his career, issues bothering on politics and real estate sector. What is your perception about life? Life is about purpose and life is short. Life...
November 2023
Former President, Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) Bode Adediji has said replicating FESTAC town is no longer feasible. He said what the government needed to do is to have the right policy and enabling environment for the private sector to thrive in the real estate sector by liberalising land and property ownership through the reduction of...
The Pioneer, a Multi-Disciplinary Professional Estate Firm in Nigeria, Bode Adediji has said that political architecture should be structured to favor women. Adediji gave the charge recently during the Vanguard Women’s Conference, tagged: Walking The Talk: Towards a Gender Balanced Polity- The Time is Now, #Breakthebias, held in Lagos. He stated that if Nigeria as a nation does not interrogate the...
Bode Adediji is a former President, Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers. He tells MAUREEN IHUA-MADUENYI that the real estate industry has been comatose for the past few years The real estate industry has been struggling for some time now. As a stakeholder, what is your assessment of its current state? Frankly speaking, the real estate industry has remained in a coma since the...
I started out like an ordinary village boy. I was born and bred in the village. My school, the University of Ife was in a village setting then. It was the youth service that took me out of my village first. I see life as strategic. This is because I was born into a hardworking and very disciplined family. Right from my youth days, I had imbibed the culture of hard work. I was also lucky to attend a...