Dr. Seyi Adigun : education and professional journey :Medical doctor,writer,chartered insurer and health insurance consultant cum lover of good governance

Dr. Seyi Adigun is a medical doctor, writer, chartered insurer, health insurance consultant and a lover of the people whose charitable activity in his community and surrounding community can not go unnoticed.

Dr. Seyi Adigun was a serving political appointee of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed's administration before voluntarily resigning his appointment. He was Chairman, Governing Council of Kwara State College of Nursing, Oke-Ode, until his resignation in December 2018. 

Dr Seyi Adigun is from Sanmora town, Ajasse Ward 2, in Irepodun Local Government of Kwara State.  Early education was at Shonga Primary School and later Baboko (now Sheikh Alimi) Primary school Ilorin. He thereafter attended GSS Ilorin  (1988 – 1993) where he was Head Boy & President of the Literary/Debating Society. 

He proceeded to study Medicine & Surgery at the University of Ibadan, receiving the prestigious College of Medicine Provost's Award on graduation in 2002. He was admitted into the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria in 2007 where he bagged the Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Insurance with a distinction in health insurance product. He was subsequently inducted as a professionally chartered member of the Institute in 2012, becoming the first medical doctor to attain the  Institute's professional status as Chartered Insurer . 

Dr. Seyi Adigun is a Fellow of the  Institute of Management Consultants (IMC, Nigeria) as well as the Institute of Health Insurance & Managed Care of Nigeria (IHIMN). His professional expertise and specialisation has seen him holding strategic management positions in Nigeria's health insurance and health management industry. These include management roles, operational headship, merger/acquisition advisory and managing directorship of prominent national HMOs (Greenbay Healthcare,  MEDEXIA HMO & Life Care HMO) as well as participation in the standing committee of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).  

Presently, he is the Lead Director, Lazforte Medicals (a health management, health insurance and health systems consulting firm based in Abuja, FCT). He also serves as head of the clinical unit at Adonai Hospital, a leading multi practice and multi specialist medical facility in Nasarawa State.

Dr Adigun is the Editor-in-Chief of INFOMEDICAL - an Abuja based medical publication. He is also a lecturer and member of the academic faculty at the Institute of Health Insurance & Managed Care of Nigeria (IHIMN) where he teaches health management and managed care.

Apart from his medical career, Dr Seyi Adigun is a committed member of Nigeria's literati. A multiple award-winning author; with 6 published collections of poetry, and several other works  (including a staged play ‘Call for me my Osheni’ at the FESTINA 2013), Seyi Adigun has established himself as one of the consistent literary voices in Nigeria.  His latest work, A Child of Smell was on the shortlist of the 2017 ANA Poetry Prize. He served two terms successively as Chairman, Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Abuja Chapter from 2008-2012.

Dr. Seyi Adigun is a devout churchman, member of the Anglican Church and has been a Bishop’s Advisor in  the Anglican Diocese of Igbomina West, Kwara State. 

He is an avid chess player, an environmentalist, peace advocate and humanitarian. For the past 13 years, he has facilitated the Irepodun Free Medical Programme, sustaining the outfit to provide free medical treatment for thousands of community dwellers across his Local Government Area, Irepodun, in Kwara State.

He is also the facilitator of WISTEP (widows and indigent students empowerment project). 

 

A grassroot politician and mobilizer, in the build up to the 2015 General Elections, he was appointed Coordinator of the BUHARI/OSIBAJO Presidential Campaign Organisation in Irepodun LGA. Similarly, shortly after his rejoining the APC, he was appointed to serve on the Kwara State APC Campaign Advisory Council for the 2019 General Elections.