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GAMALIEL Offoritsenere Onosode, a renowned administrator and boardroom guru, is dead. He died in Lagos at 8:15 am on Tuesday, September 29. He was 82 years old.
His passage was announced in a statement by Ese Onosode, his son on Tuesday morning.
Onosode was born on May 22, 1933. Until his death, he was a well-respected technocrat, administrator and a former presidential candidate of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP.
Onosode was educated at the Government College, Ughelli and the University of Ibadan.
An Urhobo man, born and raised in Sapele , a suburban city in the current Delta State by a disciplined father, he sometimes credited the strict family background and practice as being a complementary factor in his success as a disciplined civil servant and corporate administrator.
Throughout his career, Onosode chaired several private and public sector businesses and initiatives. He was the chairman of Dunlop Nigeria Plc, 1984–2007; a former chairman 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 since 1995. He was also the chairman of Zain Nigeria, a GSM telecommunications company, the oldest GSM operator, which is now AIrtel, in Nigeria.
Onosode was presidential adviser on Budget Affairs and Director of Budget 1983. He was a fellow of the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, the Nigerian Institute of Management, of which he was President, 1979–82. He was also a fellow of The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, having been elected to membership of its Board of Fellows in 1998.
Onosode, an immediate past and inaugural president of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, was immediate past pro-Chancellor and chairman of the Governing Council of the University of Uyo and immediate past and inaugural president and chairman of council of the Association of Pension Funds of Nigeria. He had an Honorary Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and holds Honorary D.Sc. degrees of the Obafemi Awolowo University, 1990; the University of Benin 1995, and the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, 2003 as well as Honorary D.D. degree of The Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso, 2002.
— Sep 29, 2015 @ 13:40 GMT
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