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GEGE, Clement Ede, Consulting Chemical and Environmental Engineer, will be 62 on March 20, 2024. Born on March 20,1962, he attended the prestigious Government College, Ughelli, Delta State from 1973- 78 for his secondary education and from 1978- 80 for his Higher School certificate and Advanced level where he obtained Grade One and full HSC respectively.
He bagged a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering in 1984 at the University of Benin, Edo State and completed Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering in 2009 at the University of Port Harcourt. He is a COREN registered Engineer and Engineering Consultant, a Fellow of Nigerian Society of Engineers and Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers. He was elected National President of Nigerian Universities Engineering Students Association ( NUESA) in 1983/ 84 session and a member of Congress, Parliament of the University of Benin Students Union Government in 1982.
He is the author of Investment Opportunities In Solid Metallic Non- ferrous Minerals In Nigeria and several articles, papers, and opinions in
chemical and environmental engineering.
TINUBU, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed, former governor of Lagos State and President, Federal Republic of Nigeria will be 72 on March 29, 2024. Born in Kakawa Street, Lagos on March 29, 1952, he was educated at Government College, Ibadan; he left Nigeria in 1975 for academic pursuit in the United States of America at the Richard Daley College, Chicago, Illinois where he was on the College Honour’s list.
He proceeded to the Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, specialising in Accounting and Management. He worked with American companies like Arthur Anderson; Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, now Deloitte, Haskins and Touche; GTE Services Corporation; Consultant, Fortune 500 groups, all in the United States of America.
He also worked as a Senior Auditor and Treasurer with Mobil Oil Nigeria Limited. His political career began in 1993 when he was elected Senator for the Lagos West Senatorial District. He was Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Finance, Appropriations and Currency.
He contested for the seat of the Executive Governor of Lagos State on the ticket of the Alliance for Democracy ( AD) and was elected Governor in 1999 and the mandate was renewed in April 2003 for a second term. He was conferred with LL. D ( Honoris Causa) by Abia State University, Uturu in November 2001; Top Seal award for Leadership in 2002.
He is the Grand Patron of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Patron of the Lagos Country Club, Patron of the Island Club and Honorary member of the Yoruba Tennis Club. He is also a founding member of the Action Congress of Nigeria ( ACN), which metamorphosed into All Progressives Congress ( APC).
In 2023, he contested the position of the country’s number seat and won defeating candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) and Labour, to clinch the coveted post.
OMOLEWA, Emeritus Professor Michael Abiola, diplomat, scholar, education historian and civil servant will be 83 on April 1, 2024. Born on Tuesday, April 1, 1941 in Ipoti- Ekiti, Ekiti State, Omolewa attended Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan from 1955 to 1958. Subsequently, he schooled at Ekiti Parapo College, Ido- Ekiti from 1959 to 1960; and later went to Christ’s School Ado Ekiti from 1962 to 1963.
From September 2003 to October 2005, he served as the 32nd President of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
( UNESCO). While he was President, Omolewa led UNESCO to adopt the International Declaration on Human Genetic Data and the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
From January 2000 to August 2009, Omolewa served as permanent delegate and ambassador of Nigeria to UNESCO. At the University of Lagos, on February 6, 2019, Omolewa delivered the 5th Enoch Adeboye Annual Birthday Public Lecture, titled: Peace: The Global Quest.
Omolewa is an emeritus professor of adult education at the University of Ibadan. He is also emeritus Professor of History of Education of Babcock University, Ilishan, Ogun State. He is a former deputy chair of the governing board of the Commonwealth of Learning in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is also a member of the Commonwealth Advisory Council on Teacher Mobility, Recruitment and Migrations in London.
In September 2008, Omolewa was given the President’s award for distinguished contribution to world peace and solidarity by Bulgaria’s President Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov. Also in 2008, Omolewa was inducted into the University of Oklahoma’s International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame.
He is a board member of ILI: International Literacy Institute – within Graduate School of Education, established by UNESCO and the University of Pennsylvania: United States of America in 1994; member, Board of Trustees Member at Babcock University. Omolewa is also on the Editorial Boards of New Yorkbased International Journal of Higher Education and Washington D. C. based ASALH: Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s Journal of African American History; including Journal of Research in International Education and International Journal of Lifelong Education.