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Olawale Adeniji Ige MFR (13 October 1938 – 9 May 2022) was a Nigerian electrical engineer and former Minister of the Federal Ministry of Communications (1990–1992). He also served as the Minister of the Federal Ministry of Aviation (1993).


Life and career

He was born on 13 October 1938 in
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, a city in
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. He was educated at Baptist Boys High School,
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(1951–1956) where he obtained the West African School Certificate (WASC). He proceeded to the Polytechnic, Regent Street,
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now
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where he obtained a Diploma in electrical engineering. He later became a graduate of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1965. He returned to
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as a chartered engineer in 1967 to join the services of the Federal Ministry of Communications where he rose to the position of a Director General in 1989. He was appointed the honorable Minister of the Federal Ministry of Communications in 1990, a tenure that ended in 1992 and later reappointed the Minister of the Federal Ministry of Aviation in 1993. He was the first civilian Chairman of Nigerian Telecommunications Limited, NITEL, and was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Nigerian Internet Group and also on the Board of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC.


Awards and fellowship

* Member of the Order of the Federal Republic, MFR (1979) *Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering


See also

* List of notable engineers in Nigeria


References

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