Founder, Christopher Kolade Foundation; Chancellor, McPherson University; Chairman, Board of Directors of SystemSpecs.
– Education Officer, Defunct Western Region, 1955;
– West Regional Controller, Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (now Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN), 1960- 1963;
– Director, Television, Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (now Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN), 1963-1968;
– Director, Programmes, Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (now Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN), 1968-1972;
– President, International Institute for Communications, 1973 – 1975;
– Director General, Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (now Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, 1972-1978;
– President, World Association for Christian Communication, 1975–1982;
– Administration director, Cadbury Nigeria Limited, 1978;
– Deputy Managing director, Cadbury Nigeria Limited, 1982;
– President, Nigerian Institute of Management, 1985–1988;
– Managing Director, Cadbury Nigeria Limited, 1984-1989;
– Chief Executive Officer, Cadbury Nigeria Limited, 1989;
– President, Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria, 1988–1993;
– Lecturer, Lagos Business School, 1995-2005;
– High Commissioner to United Kingdom, 2002-2007;
– Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the University, 2009-2012
– Chairman, Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme Board, January 3, 2012;
– Fellow, Institute of Directors,
– Fellow, Society of Nigerian Broadcasters,
– Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON), 2008
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Managing Grassroots Resources and Facilities for National Development in a Depressed Economy
– Honorary Doctor of Civil, University of Sierra-Leone, 1976;
– Listening to Gospel Music
– Playing lawn tennis
– Metropolitan Club, Lagos State;
– Lagos Country Club, Lagos State
Dr Kolade is an Organist and Choir Master in St. Peter’s Church, Faji, Lagos, since 1988. Dr. Christopher Kolade received the medal of the Order of St. Augustine from the Archbishop of Canterbury (1981). He is also a Lay Canon of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in the Diocese of Guildford.
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