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| Deji Falae |
Falae, whose job as the Ondo State Commissioner for Tourism and Culture was formulating policies geared at stimulating tourism and related activities for the state was on an official duty to accompany the remains of the former governor home to be interred, when the sad incidence occurred. Falae had been praised for his job of “creating conducive atmosphere and providing the necessary facilities for the development of tourism and ensuring the propagation and growth of indigenous culture in Ondo State.”
As Executive Director, Gold Estates Limited, a position he held for six years (2002 – 2008), Falae generated new development deals for a real estate development company that focuses on multi-family residential projects, including real-estate market analysis, his Linkedin account revealed. It was said by his former colleagues that the deceased managed the development of a mini residential estate from design to completion in the high end real estate market in Lagos.
Between November 2008 and September 2011, he was the C.E.O of WEST ONE RESOURCES LTD, a company some said he owned before his call to serve his fatherland two years ago as the Commissioner for Tourism in Ondo State.
Falae, a lawyer, politician and public officer in the service of the Ondo State Government was married for 14 years. He told a lifestyle blog that his marriage was a happy one. He took the liberty to share how he met with his wife, saying his wife and he were introduced by a mutual friend “while she was an undergraduate in the University of Lagos in 1993 and I was a Youth Corps member.”
He continued, “After the first date I was pretty sure I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her even though she wasn’t so sure about my intentions. She was very beautiful and had a comfortable ‘girl next door’ appeal that I couldn’t resist,” he said of his wife, now a widow. She was the one he shared the odyssey of life with.
Falae bagged the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Law from the Obafemi Awolowo University (1987 – 1991). As a lover of life, he was partial to arts, entertainment and photography. Never to be alone, he belonged to several groups and associations. Some of them included Construction Management, Invest in Africa Lagos Business Club – Nigeria, Oil and Gas People, and Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Group.
