Lagos State University

She's a professor of public health.

She's a public health consultant and a physician, professor of community medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, an honorary consultant at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.

um her public health work spans community health a child survival and primary health care and she's also former second vice chairman of the association of public health physicians of nigeria legal state chapter and of course when it comes to things like this the public health physicians are the ones we go to so i'm very happy um to say good morning to our guest dr alero and roberts professor good morning to you good to have you on the program

Good morning, Kofi.

Alera Ann Roberts.

She's a professor of community medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, and an honorary consultant here.

at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.

She's a public health physician whose work spans community health, child survival, and primary health care.

I was born in Lagos State.

I read economics from Lagos State University.

Oh, economics.

Yeah, so after my NYC, I started working with FCMB.

I only knew Whis then.

You knew Whiskey? Because Whiskey was in my school then.

It was in Lasso.

Whiskey was in Lasso? Yeah, it went to Lasso too at a point before it went to Lake City.

So how do you distinguish genuine political anger from somebody deliberately learning how to amplify and redirect it? And how does the message created outside Nigeria acquire enough local credibility to influence a conversation inside Nigeria? Joining us are investigative journalists Philip Obadji Jr.

and Dr. Oladeji Olatunji of Lagos State University.

Welcome to Panel 54, a global perspective through an African lens.

This is the podcast where we unpack power, policy, people and the paradoxes that define our time.

She currently serves as the vice president at Cowrie Asset Management and Division Ahead Retail Banking, having previously served as managing director, stroke chief executive officer of its securities arm.

Nkoli holds a master's in investment and finance from the London School of Business and Finance and an MBA in finance from Lagos State University.

She is a fellow and council member of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers , an associate member of the Nigerian Institute of Management , and a certified member of the Pension Institute of Nigeria, alongside several international professional certifications and training.

So it's a quality guest as usual that we'll have on the program this evening and let's make welcome Nkoli Edoka who is with us in the studio.

She is an associate member of the Chathard Institute of Personnel Management , Chathard Institute of Personnel and Development , and Chathard Institute of Arbitrators.

She holds an LLB from the Lagos State University and an LLM from the University of Ibadan.

She is currently pursuing an MBA at Rome Business School, Nigeria to further strengthen her business and leadership capabilities.

She also serves on the Conference Planning Committee for the upcoming CIPM International Conference and Exhibition, the CIPM ICE 2026 in Abuja.

Hmm.

Do you understand? I have my first degree in University of Ibadan where I did theater arts, my second degree in LASU where I did economics.

Do you understand? I've been on radio before as a presenter, and I've been doing movies for 25 years.

Ah.

Who taught you?" No The curriculum is greater than the lecturer.

What makes the-- Listen, what makes, uh, a medical doctor in, say, Lasu or, or Unilag, another person in, um, maybe Ife, somewhere there, they come together and they say, "We are all doctors," and they hold their hands immediately.

Do you know why? Because of the power of the system they were submitted to.

Systems are powerful.

What makes the-- Listen.

What makes, uh, a medical doctor in, say, Lasu or, or Unilag, another person in, um, maybe Ife, somewhere there, they come together and they say, "We're all doctors," and they hold their hands immediately.

Do you know why? Because of the power of the system they were submitted to.

Systems are powerful.

Um, no, no studying going on right now at, uh, Lagos State-owned universities.

I'm talking about universities such as, um, LASU, LASSUED, LASUSTECH, and LASUCOM.

Um, it's, it's pretty, uh, it's, it's pretty damning, um, for the state government to have allowed this to, to happen.

Dr. Ibrahim, thank you again for joining us.

Uh, by the way, Dr. Ibrahim joined, joined us virtually this morning.

It took us some time because of the glitch that we experienced on the show.

He is the ASUU secretary at LASU, Dr. Ibrahim Abiola Alabi.

Um, this is how far we, we can go on the show this morning.