Born
2 April 1938
in
at Offa, in the present Kwara State
Chief
Adesoye
Emmanuel
Olatunji
ASIWAJU OF OFFA INDUSTRIALIST Immediately upon Having Secondary School, he joined the Northern Ministry of Works as Assistant Technical Officer in training; became Quantity Surveyor in 1966 and became the Head of the Quantity Surveying Department before leaving the Government Service in 1968. He represented the Northern Region of Nigeria at the World Bank Educational Development Project Programmer. He served the (ICSA) in Kaduna in various capacities as Chief Quantity Surveyor and Acting Chief Architect and was mainly responsible for World Bank Project DA and German Hospital Development Project throughout the North. Appointed Member, Board of Governors Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna 1979-1982;Member, Board of Governors Kwara State Housing Corporation 1976-1979; Represented the Federal Government on ExportPromotion andwent on an extensive tourof WestAfrica in 1980;Member, Federal wvernmwtoi'NigeriaStudy Group onMaintenance of Public Utilities 1984. Chairman, ExpertCommitteesetup iy theFederalMinisty of Commerce andIndustries on Nigeria Machine Took, Osogbo 1985; Member, Kwara State Industrial Development Fund 1985; Chairman. Afribank United 1987-1989. Member and Vice Chairman Kwara State Government Think Tank on Industrialization since 1997; Founder Adesoye College, Offa in 1986 for the educational and leadership training of Nigerian and overseas students with highest standards of discipline and scholarship comparable to their peers anywhere in the world; Scholarships are awarded a tall of education; Tarred and maintained public roads Offa LGA; Donated a Hall to Federal Polytechnic, Offa helped in the industrialization of the County by the setting up of various industrial projects resulting in the creation of thousands of direct job opportunities in the county such as: Vukan Gases Ltd, Okin Bottling Company Ltd, and Supasteel Ltd, Kaduna; Optus Furniture Ltd, Okin Biscuits Ltd, Okin Foam, Ubande Creekk LTd, and Adesoye College, Offa; Babanla Agro-Allied Industries, Babanla-Kwara State, Interlates Printing and Packaging Ltd, Ugos, Omicron International Ltd, Ugos, Financed the formation of Okin Express as a Subsidized road transportation system between Offa and Kaduna; Member Board of Directors of various Private Limited Liability Companies and National Honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger(OON) in 2000., Fellowship of the federal Polytechnic Offa (FFPO) in Business Administration in 1998. And Asiwaiu of Offa by His Royal Highness, the Olofa of Offa on 28/4/2001.
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Profession
Administrator , Quantity Surveyor , Educationist
Working Experience
Previous Appointments:
Founder, Adesoye College
He had his Primary Education at St. Mark School Offa 1956. He later went on to Offa Grammar School from 1953-1957 Yaba; Technical College Yaba in 1958 to study architecture and became a prize winner in Architecture. In 1959 be went to Nigeria College of Arts Science and Technology, Enugu and later to South East Essex College of Arts Science and Technology, United Kingdom 1961-1963
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Died
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