Samuel Olatunde Fadahunsi
President of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN)
In office
1977–1986
President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE)
In office
1967–1970
Personal details
Born(1920-03-17)17 March 1920
Nigeria
Died12 August 2014(2014-08-12) (aged 94)
Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria

Samuel Olatunde Fadahunsi OFR CON (17 March 1920 – 12 August 2014) was a Nigerian civil engineer and former President of COREN, an engineering regulation body in Nigeria.[1]

Life and career

He was born on 17 March 1920 in Osun State, southwestern Nigeria. He was educated at Saint John School, Iloro, Ilesha, Osun State (1927-1936). He also attended Government College, Ibadan (1937-1942). In 1948, he received a scholarship that earned him a bachelor's degree in Civil engineering at the Battersea Polytechnic in London.[2] Having completed his bachelor's degree in 1952, he joined the service of Cubits, British engineering company, where he worked for two years.[3] He returned to Nigeria, where he became a full engineer in 1954.[4] He left to England in 1957 for a post graduate (PGD) training as a water engineer. He completed the program in 1958 and returned to Nigeria as a Senior Engineer in various towns in the old Western Region, including Abeokuta, Ibadan and Benin.[5] He later rose to the position of a Chief Water Engineer in the old Western Region of Nigeria (1960-1963). He later became the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (1963-1965) and Chief Executive Officer, Lagos Executive Development Board (LEDB), now Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC) (1965-1972).[6][7][8] He served as Chairman of Industrial Research Council of Nigeria between 1971 and 1974[9]

Fellowship

  • Foundation Fellow of The Nigerian Academy of Engineering.[10]

Awards

References

  1. Chukwuma Okparaocha-Lagos. "Obasanjo, others pay tribute to late housing guru, Fadahunsi". Archived from the original on 2015-04-13.
  2. Dapo Fafowora. "Chief Samuel Olatunde Fadahunsi, CON (1920- 2014)". The Nation.
  3. "Chief S.O. Fadahunsi, OFR, CON: Tribute to an exceptional leader and engineer - Vanguard News". Vanguard News.
  4. "BiafraNigeriaWorld: The Authority on BiafraNigeria".
  5. "Institute Concludes Research On Bad Roads". Archived from the original on 2015-04-11.
  6. "Nigeria HomePage - Breaking News, Business, Sports, Entertainment and Video News". Archived from the original on 2015-04-12.
  7. Reflections on the events of my life. OCLC 839303897.
  8. Fadahunsi, Samuel Olatunde (2010). Reflections on the Events of My Life. ISBN 9789780694166.
  9. Our Correspondent. "New Telegraph – Institute concludes research on bad roads". Archived from the original on 2015-04-13.
  10. RapidxHTML. "The Nigeria Academy of Engineering :: promoting excellence in technology and engineering training and practice to ensure the technological growth and economic development of Nigeria".
  11. "Chief Samuel Olatunde Fadahunsi, CON (1920- 2014) - The Nation Newspaper".

See also

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