Dr akintunde ayeni biography examples

The herbal medicine industry in Nigeria has experienced unprecedented growth in the last three decades. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that about 80 per cent of African populations, especially those living in rural areas, use herbal medicine to meet their primary healthcare needs because of its availability, accessibility and affordability.

However, before the revolution in the herbal medicine industry in Nigeria began, very few informed people and institutions valued this form of healthcare delivery because of the rudimentary way it was being practised.

Things have however taken a drastic turn in recent years. And one of the key players who pioneered this transformation valued of the herbal medicine industry in Nigeria was Dr Akintunde Ishola Ayeni, founder and CEO of Yem-Kem International Limited – the leading producer of standardised herbal medicine products in West-Africa.

Ayeni, popularly known as Yem-Kem, is one of the few trado-medical pract