The news of the death of Oluyemisi Akinadewo caught practitioners et al unaware. OYEYEMI GBENGA-MUSTAPHA and WALE ADEPOJU report what they say about the pioneer Director-General, Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA).
 
The first Director-General of the Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA), Oluyemi Akinadewo, is dead. He died of cardiac arrest at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). He was on oxygen mask for three days before he breathed his last. He was 68.

The late Akinadewo was a man of many parts; first, he was an orthodox medicine practitioner; and then a traditional medicine practitioner – a passion he nurtured till he passed away on May 7.
In his lifetime, he held several key positions within and outside the country. Some of them are Coordinator, National Expert Committee (NEC) on Traditional Medicine; Director, Ministry of Science and Technology, Director-General, Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA); Visiting International Chairman, Hong Kong Traditional Medicine Board; International Vice President, Nigeria Agency for the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS and Cancer and President, Nigeria China Academy of Natural Medicine.
He wrote many books. Some of them are: “Sketch on Natural Medicine”, “Medicinal Plants and their Therapeutic Uses in the South west Zone of Nigeria (Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo states) . . . . .