First technocrat and meeting room Czar, Deacon Gamaliel Onosode, 82, is dead.
Vanguard learnt Mr. Onosode passed on Tuesday morning at Gold Cross Hospital, Ikoyi Lagos at around 8:15am after an extended disease.
Onosode was flown home yesterday from London.
As per Wikipedia:
Gamaliel Offoritsenere Onosode (conceived 22 May 1933) (Died 29 September 2015) is a Nigerian technocrat, director and a previous presidential hopeful of the All Nigeria People's Party of Nigeria. Instructed at the Government College, Ughelli and the University of Ibadan, he developed in the 1970s, as one of Nigeria's driving taught CEOs, when he was in charge of NAL trader bank of Nigeria. Throughout the years, he has ascended to end up a main meeting room player in Nigeria's professional workplace. He was likewise a previous presidential consultant to President Shagari and a previous president of the Nigerian Institute of Management.
Life and profession
A Urhobo man, brought up in Sapele , a rural city in the present Delta State by a taught father, he once in a while credited the strict family foundation and practice just like a corresponding element in his prosperity as a trained common worker and corporate chairman.
All through his profession, Dr. Gamaliel Onosode has led a few private and open part organizations and activities. He was the Chairman of Dunlop Nigeria Plc (1984–2007), a previous executive of Cadbury Nigeria Plc (1977–93), the Presidential Commission on Parastatals (1981), Nigeria LNG Working Committee and Nigeria LNG Limited (1985–90) and the Niger Delta Environmental Survey (subsequent to 1995). He is additionally the Chairman of Zain Nigeria, a GSM information transfers organization, the oldestGSM administrator in Nigeria.
Mr. Gamaliel Onosode was Presidential Adviser on Budget Affairs and Director of Budget (1983). He is a Fellow of the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, the Nigerian Institute of Management, of which he was President (1979–82). He is additionally a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, having been chosen to participation of its Board of Fellows in 1998.
What's more, Mr. Onosode is quick past and inaugural President of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, prompt past Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the University of Uyo and prompt past and inaugural President & Chairman of Council of the Association of Pension Funds of Nigeria. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and holds Honorary D.Sc. degrees of Obafemi Awolowo University (1990), the University of Benin (1995), and theRivers State University of Science and Technology (2003) and additionally Honorary D.D. level of The Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso (2002).
In 1995, he turned into the Chairman of the Niger Delta Environmental Survey, a non-administrative association that directed logical studies on natural and social effect evaluation of oil investigation in the Niger delta. The overview was somewhat financed by Shell. The review reports which distributed obligations and fault for a significant part of the natural debasement in the locale on oil administrators, the central government and groups has not been made open.
Minister Onosode is a former student of the University of Ibadan, and has contributed huge time to see through magnanimous and representing matters concerning the college. He is the previous Pro-Chancellor of the University and Chairman of its Governing Council.
He is likewise a passionate Christian and began Good News Baptist Church in his Sitting Room on 1 Feb.1984. Uplifting news Baptist Church is presently an expansive church of more than 2000 individuals and has turned into a power to figure with in the Nigerian Baptist Convention regarding missions and evangelism. Mr. Gamaliel Onosode was the inaugural Chairman of the Global Missions Board of the Nigerian Baptist Convention.
Furthermore, Onosode is Chairman of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso, Nigeria's most seasoned degree granting religious establishment, which in 2008 stamped 110 years of its presence while the University of Ibadan was 60 years
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