Prince Abejide Adewale Aladesanmi (4 August 1938 – 21 January 2017) was a Nigerian banker, businessman, and

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prince of the

Ekiti people The Ekiti people are one of the largest historical subgroups of the larger Yoruba people of West Africa, located in Nigeria. They are classified as a Central Yoruba group, alongside the Ijesha, Igbomina, Yagba and Ifes. Ekiti State is populated ...

Early life

Aladesanmi was born on 4 August 1938 in Nigeria. His father was Oba

Daniel Aladesanmi II Daniel Akomolafe Anirare Aladesanmi II OBE CFR (1902 – 7 January 1983) was a Yoruba Oba who reigned as Ewi of Ado Ekiti in Nigeria from 1937 until 1983. Early life Aladesanmi was born in 1902 to Olori Ifalete and Oba Ajimudaoro Aladesanm ...

, the ruler of

Ado Ekiti Ado Ekiti is the capital city of Ekiti State, Nigeria. It is the headquarter of the Ekiti central senatorial district, southwest, Nigeria. History Ado Ewi is an ancient city, founded by Ewi Awamaro the son of Biritikolu. Awamaro (the restles ...

from 1937 until 1983, and his mother was Oloori Awawu Omosuwaola. His paternal grandfather was Oba Ajimudaoro Aladesanmi I.

Education and career

He was educated at Osuntokun School and Christ School in Ado Ekiti. He went to the United Kingdom for his college education, studying accounting and banking at the

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. He returned to Nigeria in 1967 after obtaining a combined honours degree in banking and accounting where he worked as an assistant general manager of credit and operation at the National Bank of Nigeria. Prior to his work at the National Bank he had worked at

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and

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in London. He retired from banking in 1989 and was appointed by the Nigerian Federal government to serve as a member of the Governing Council of the Federal Polytechnic and as the director of the Nigerian National Patroleum Corporation.

Death

Aladesanmi died on 21 January 2017.

References

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Adewale Adewale is both a given name and a surname of Yoruba origin, meaning "the king/crown/royalty came home". Notable people with the name include: Given name * Adewale Ademoyega (born c.1934), Nigerian Army officer * Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (born 19 ...

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