B.Sc, Ph.D, agricultural economist, univer sity teacher, bom April 14, 1943, Ibadan, Oyo State; married Bolanle Shonubi 1968, twosons,twodaughters; Education:OluIwa College, Ijebu-Ode, 1957-61, Muslim Col lege, Ijebu-Ode, 1962-53, University of Ibadan, 1964-67, University of Leeds, UK, 1968-71; Career: Appointed Manager-in- Training, United Bank for Africa Limited, 1967-68; Research Officer, Central Bank of Nigeria, Lagos, 1968; Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1977-80; member, Board of Directors of Nigerian Agricultural and Cooperative Bank Limited, 1977-80; Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1981-83; appointed Pro fessor ofAgricultural Economics since 1980; Vice-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo Univer sity, Ile-Ife, 1990-91; Director, ChiefExecu tive Officer, FEDEN/LEAD. Nigeria Lagos, since 1992; member, Board of Trustees, Ni geria Internet Group 1995; member, Nige rian Farm Management Association, since 1922; member, Nigerian Association of Agricultural Economists, since 1973; life member, Nigerian Economics Society since 1988; member, West African Association of Agricultural Economics, Chairman, Nigerian National Advisory Council for Cooperative Development inNigeria, 1985-86; member, British Society of Agricultural Economics; member, West African Association of Agricultural Economists, member, Oluyole* Club, Lagos, Since 1996; member, Young Men Christian Association, Ibadan' since 1997. Publications: Rural Banking in Ni geria, Longman, London, 1983; Coopera tives and Nigeria's Agricultural Develop ment, University of Ife Press, He Ife, 1984; The Private Sector and Nigeria s Agricul tural Development, ARMTI, Ilorin, 1984; The Development ofNigerian Agriculture- Suggestions for the Future, Evans, 1984; Population and the Nigerian Environment, FEDEN Publications, 1994; Poverty, Health andthe Nigerian Environment, FEDENPub lications, 1998. Hobbies: singing, jogging, footballing; Official Address: 8, Thornburn Avenue, Yaba, PO Box 664, Yaba, Lagos. Telephone: 01-865864, 868873, 7742076. Home: 28, Shaki Crescent, Surulere, Lagos, PO Box 74277, Victoria Island, Lagos State.
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