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AKITOYE, Dr. Charles Aderemi, politician, agricultural scientist and former Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture will be 73 on Tuesday, May 29, 2017. Born into the notable Akitoye Royal Ruling House of
Lagos on May 29, 1945 to Prince Babs Akitoye and Late Olori Omo-oba of Lagos and Mrs Christiana Olagunju Akitoye, nee Ogundimu of the Oloto Royal Ruling House of Lagos. He attended Salvation Army Primary School and St. Paul’s Roman Catholic School, Lagos, between 1952 and 1959; CMS Grammar School, 1960-65; and later Ahmadiyya College and the Fed- eral School of Science for his Higher School between 1966 and 1967. He gained admission to University of Lagos in 1969, where he graduated with B.sc (Hons) degree in 1972. He thereafter proceeded to the University of Salford, UK between 1974 and 1976, where he bagged Masters Degree in Environmental Resources and a PHD in 1979 in the same discipline. He was at the University of Leeds, UK, for Certificate in Public Administration and Los Banyos University in the Philippines, between 1980 and 1981 for a Certificate in Agro Business. He holds Certificate in Fisheries Management from the National Institute of Fisheries Management of South Korea and a Certificate in Remote Sensing of the University of Ibadan, 1981. He started his working career as a Laboratory Assistant, at the University of Lagos, between 1968 and 1969, Senior Science Tutor with Lagos State Teaching Service, 197274; and Graduate Assistant, University of Salford, UK, 1977-78. He joined the Federal Civil Service on return from overseas in 1980 as the Zonal Head, Federal Fisheries Department, Enugu, 1980-82 and Manager, Fisheries Terminal, Borokiri, River State, 1983-86. He was appointed Commissioner of Agriculture, Lagos State between 1986 and 1992.
Member, Board of Governors, Niger Delta Basin Au- thority, 1987-89; member, Institute of Remote Sensing of Nigeria, Fisheries Society of Nigeria, UK; Institute of Fisheries and the National Polymer Institute of Nigeria, among others.
He is also a member of Island Club, Ikoyi Club and Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON). He is currently National President, Breadfruit Elders Shareholders Association.