Janet Febisola Adeyemi
Janet Febisola Adeyemi (born July 16, 1958) is the current President of Women in Mining in Nigeria, an affiliate of International Women in Mining. She also served on the Strategic Development and Policy Implementation Committee of the 2016 Governor-elect of Ondo State. She is part of a broad civil society network coordinating an intervention in the recent South Kaduna crisis. She notably served in Nigeria national House of Representative, Executive Board Member of ICRC, Senior Special Assistant to the Presidency on National Assembly Matters, Chairman of Ondo State Cocoa Industry, amongst other advisory committees and national  developmental agendas. During her term in the National Assembly, she served as Chairman on Irrigation, Flood and Erosion Control, sub-committee Chairman for Solid Minerals and Water Resources. She sponsored/co-sponsored 15 bills enacted as law amongst several other initiative bills despite serving as a member of a minority political party. She declared her intention to run for senator of Ondo South District under All Progressives Congress (APC) on 17 September 2018. Early life and family. Janet Adeyemi was born to Chief Ebenezer Akinboboye Adepoju and High Chief (Princess) Florence Motinola Adepoju, famously known by her title as "Yagbata  of Ile oluji", Ondo State. Her father, Chief Adepoju was a diligent civil servant that supervised the execution of part of the major road that connects around Ile Oluji. The contractors and the people regarded him as a Man of Integrity as he shunned all appearance of materialism. Her mother, High Chief Adepoju, was a successful tradeswoman who came from a very impoverished background and became one of the wealthiest merchants in her town. Adeyemi's parents were both notable personalities in the Ile-Oluji local community. The Adepoju family gave back to the community through various functions and social  activities that the town people would visit the family house to share greetings and pleasantries. Adeyemi's uncle, Oba (Engr.) Stephen Sulade Adedugbe was the immediate late King of Ile-Oluji - a very influential Monarch in SouthWest Nigeria, the Jegun of Ile-Oluji. She grew up in Jos during the civil war, and her family was almost executed during the raids. Her neighbor had provided a saving grace which enabled them to flee out of the state back to their state of origin. Adeyemi went on to attend the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife for her undergraduate degree in  Geology. Upon graduating, she served in the National Youth Service Corps programme as a pupil geologist. She and her would-be husband (Engr. T.A.T. Adeyemi) were recipients of the Commonwealth and European Economic Commission scholarships respectively which sponsored them to Loughborough University of Technology, UK. It was during her graduate studies at Loughborough University where she met the love of her life. They were both studying engineering, started dating and decided to return to the country upon graduation to contribute to the society they grew. Federal House of Representatives (Nigeria). Adeyemi was elected to the House of Representative for Ile -oluji/Oke-igbo constituency in 1998. She served as author of several bills and worked across party lines on multiple occasions. She was regarded as a bridge builder as a result of her ability to work well with other political party members despite representing a minority political party. She was known as an advocate for Developmental agendas and Gender Equality; she sponsored the Circumcision of Women (Prohibition) Bill in 2000 which attracted many Western Scholars that led to the supervision of a doctorate thesis by a Canadian Scholar. Internally, Adeyemi co-sponsored the creation of the Niger-Delta Commission, an  agency established to address the gross underdevelopment of the oil producing area in Nigeria. Her peers regarded her as Madame Bitumen for her tenacity and championing the struggle to enact the Bitumen Development Commission Bill. She was one of the advocates for the Nigeria $18 Billion external debt relief; she served as a delegate to address USA Senators at the World Trade Center in New York to draw on the merits of the debt forgiveness package. Public service appointments. Adeyemi has served at various capacities including Executive Board member of the ICRC, Special Assistant to the Presidency on National  Assembly Matters, Chairman of Ondo State Cocoa Industry. She was considered amongst the finalists for deputy governorship for the APC candidate in the 2016 Ondo State Gubernatorial Contest. She has helped with multiple National and Statewide campaigns; she was part of the transition team for Governor Olusegun Agagu after helping to win the gubernatorial election in 2003 and delivering her constituency in a landslide victory. She was shortlisted for ministerial appointments for different portfolios in 2003 and 2007. Affiliations. Adeyemi serves on the boards of several non-governmental organizations, as a consultant to many bilateral and multi-lateral developmental organizations  including World Bank and the United Nations, as well as many Statewide committee developmental initiatives. She has organized several environmental-issue led workshops/conferences sponsored by Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), United Nation Development Program (UNDP), Federal Ministry of Environment, amongst many others. She served on the committee for the creation of Nigeria Delta Development Commission (NDDC); planning committee on the flooding of River Niger; committee on the development of Water Resources Management and Production of a draft bill on the conjunctive use of water in Nigeria; committee on security of lives and property  (in curbing the effects of armed bandits from the Niger Republic); committee member on Police Equipment Trust Fund; committee member of Issue of Climate Change; Small Hydropower Project Implementation in Nigeria; Advocacy for Gender Parity in Nigeria; United Nations National Consultative Group on Electoral Reforms in Nigeria; Affirmation Action Committee of the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs. Awards. In recognition of her immense contribution to her community, state and country, Adeyemi is a recipient of the following awards: Speaking engagements and publications. Adeyemi has made several public presentations and issued numerous publications. Below are some of her most recent undertakings