CAFRAD appoints Nigerian professor, Olaopa

A Nigerian professor, Tunji Olaopa, has been appointed to serve as a member on the international advisory committee of the African Training and Research Centre in Administration for Development (CAFRAD), a pan-African intergovernmental organisation.

Olaopa, an Executive Vice Chairman of Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy, Bodija, Ibadan, was invited to serve as a member of the committee for a period of four years alongside other members from the United States, Canada, Spain and Switzerland.

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Others are the former President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bay Koroma; the former Head of State Ibrahim Babangida; and the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of Costa Rica, Dr Oscar Arias Sanchez.

CAFRAD, a reputable pan-African inter-governmental organisation created in 1964 and headquartered in Tangier – Morocco, currently has a membership of 38 countries spanning the different geographical blocks on the African continent.

In almost six decades of its existence, CAFRAD has trained thousands of senior officials of African public administrations and initiated several strategic multi-dimensional reforms with direct bearing on public action and governance delivery.