Top Real Estate Company, Pelican Valley partners  diasporan health specialists to end medical tourism, to attract over $100m investment to Ogun | Prestige Real Estate News

Pelican Valley Nigeria Limited has begun talks with Nigerian medical specialists in diaspora, especially the United States, to attract over $100 million in healthcare investment to Ogun State.

The envisaged project which is expected to sit on 100 hectares of land, when finally berthed, will also redefine healthcare service delivery in the state and country. This is just as the project is touted to mean an end to overseas medical tourism, a phenomenon that’s popular among Nigeria’s privileged class.

The foreign medical team, which was received in the Pelican’s Ecostay Apartments at Kobape by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pelican Valley Nigeria Limited, Dr Babatunde Adeyemo, on Wednesday, revealed that they were only looking for ways to give back to their country and its people.

A member of the visiting team and resident in the United States of America, Tolu Badejo, said the need for quality healthcare delivery has not been lost on Nigerians but lamented that the country is not yet there in terms of global standards of quality healthcare service.

He wondered aloud why, in 2025, Nigeria, a country with so much potential in both human and financial capital, does not have a world-class healthcare system run by Nigerians.

Badejo explained that the quest to fill this void informed the team’s journey from the United States to Nigeria, particularly Ogun State, to see the Pelican Valley CEO, expressing confidence that “Nigeria is not short of the resources needed to accomplish this goal.”

He said, “I think it is not lost on anybody that the need for good and quality health care in Nigeria, you know it is not lost on anybody. Everyone knows that Nigeria is way behind when it comes to healthcare as far as the global standards of quality healthcare are concerned. For many years, I’m sure there have been initiatives trying to improve the quality of healthcare in Nigeria, but not much progress has been made because there is still a long way to go.

“Why can’t Nigeria, a quality country with so much potential, people capital, human and financial potential not have a state-of-the art healthcare system that it can command as its own? Not something brought in from somewhere else but one that is built and run by Nigerians. That is where the idea came from, and we believe that Nigeria is not short of the resources needed to accomplish this goal.

“So, that is why we are here to learn, to connect with both government and private visionaries like you to see if there are people like us around here, and we believe there are.

“One point that needs to be highlighted is the fact that a lot of countries are developing their own nations, they are going out extracting resources and developing their own nations. It is high time that Nigerians recognise that if we don’t build Nigeria, nobody is going to come and do it for us. It will take another 100 years, we will still be looking for that person. It is only Nigerians that can develop Nigeria themselves.”

Also speaking, Dr Ehri Badejo, described Nigerian healthcare specialists abroad as group of brilliant people who are more than determined to give back to people, communities and the country as a whole.

She said that American-Indians who are specialists in oncology, cardiology, endocrinology and other specialties are also interested in the project and have strongly signified readiness to contribute in a number of ways towards the realization of the goal.

Ehri said, “Our hope is that we are able to create a system that helps people, an ecosystem where you bring everything you need; the nurses are inbred, the physicians are inbred and the specialists just to come with a whole lot of service. It is a $100 million healthcare project to start off with.

“The other concept is medical tourism. We have a lot of that going on. How about putting an end to that? If you have a specialist, you already have the expertise and you have the level of excellence, why not do it right here? Look at you, for instance, and what you are doing right here at Ecostay Apartments.”

Speaking earlier, Pelican Valley CEO, who said he was more than thrilled by the team’s vision, pledged to harness the political goodwill of Kobape and environs towards getting community, government and diasporan investors’ support, particularly to improve the road infrastructure in the area.

Adeyemo said that the project fits into the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu’s administration on health sector, stressing that given the president’s penchant to welcoming any idea bordering on growth and development, the proposal might receive a favourable disposition if it is brought to his attention and that of Governor Dapo Abiodun.

Adeyemo said, “I want to assure you that we are going to use our personality to support the project. And as CEO, I will do my best to bring Honourable Abike Dabiri-Erewa into this. She is the chairperson of Nigeria in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM). She is our sister and I believe she has this flair for any good thing coming from the diaspora. We will take the proposal to the state government. Our governor is a listening governor, possibly, he will grant us an audience on the project and back it up with just the infrastructure needed.”

The visitation of the foreign-based medical consultants was wrapped up with a symbolic planting of N2 million worth of trees at the Pelican’s Ecostay Apartments, a ritual which the Pelican CEO said will continue for the next five months.