Adieu! Prof Mosobalaje Oyawoye, First African Professor of Geology passed on at 96.

Date: 2023-05-23

I first learnt of Professor Oyawoye in 2014 when I went on a painstaking knowledge driven research and archiving of the doyens of many Academic fields, especially the first Professors in most popular fields of Learning in our Universities in Nigeria.

Prof Oyawoye is two of the first Professors in Africa from Kwara State, representing the good people of Offa land, a community known for their love for Education.

It's not surprising that Prof Mosobalaje is from that town. After Peacock & potatoes, Education is almost the next thing I know about Offa people. And one of first Educated Offas is Prof Mosobalaje, a pride to all Kwarans, and Offa sons and daughters.

The history of Offa is not complete without mentioning Emeritus Prof Mosobalaje Oyawoye when you get to that junction of Educational attainment, ditto for the field of Geology in Nigeria.

How you know big dons like this is when you pick journals and see citations and References.

The other First Professor from my list then who comes from Kwara among the old Professors is Emeritus Prof Muyiwa Awe, who is the first Nigerian Professor of Physics through the Premier University of Ibadan just like Oyawoye. Aw? is from Esie town in Kwara. PROF Aw? passed away in 2015 at 83.

The beautiful thing about these Scholars is how they passed away at an advanced age. What a gift of knowledge, accomplishment and long age!

At 96, what more can one pray for?

Sleep on Prof Jamiu Mosobalaje Oyawoye CON 1927 - 2023.

Wishing you Aljanah Fridaus and Eternal rest. One of the golden sons of Offa land is gone.

©?m? Elu.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Lanre Olosunde     IEDPU     HYPPADEC     NSCIA     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Simon Sayomi     Coronavirus     Stephen Fasakin     Akeem Lawal     Ahmad Ali     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Baruten     International Vocational Centre     Olokoba Sulyman     John Olajide Adedipe     Saraki     Shonga     Ahmed \'Lateef     Kassim Babamale     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Galland Marcias     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Abdulkarim Adisa     Air Peace     Ado Bayero     V.O. Abioye     Kabir Shagaya     Sobi FM     NNPP     Ashiru     Nurudeen Mohammed     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Ghali Alaaya     Siraj Oyewale     Olayinka Olaogun     Post-utme     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Sobi Hill     Tunji Folami     Modibbo Kawu     Www.Kwarareports.com     Ilorin South     Aliyu Salihu     Kunbi Titiloye     Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     TIC     Kwara State University Of Education     Hakeem Idris     3MTT     Akanji     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     KWSIEC     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Dan Masanin     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Olam Food Ingredients     Tunde Akanbi     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     NIPOGA     Kisra     Muslim Cementary     Dunmade     Salake     Halimah Perogi     Orisa Bridge     Sa\'adu Salahu     Noah Yusuf     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Yusuf Mubarak     Arandun     Orire     Bluenile Associates     Muyideen Ajani Bello    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Salman Suleiman     Oluronke Adeyemi     Kayode Ogunlowo     Alaiye     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Benin Republic     Lateef Alagbonsi     CBT     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     HYPPADEC     AbdulRahman Saad     Shaaba Lafiagi     Kayode Yusuf     Ojuekun Sarumi     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     UITH     AIT Ilorin     SAPZ Project     Kaiama     Ayobola Ipinlaiye     Baruba     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Baba Issa Awoye     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Adeniyi Ojo     Shehu Jimoh     Muazam Nayaya     Magaji Are     Segun Adeniyi     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Popo-Igbonna     Aliyu Muhammed     Old Oyo     Mujtabah Bature     SWAN     Oro Grammar School     VADA     Raymond Olaitan     JAAC     Khairat Gwadabe     Oba Abu     Muhammed Aliyu     Lanre Issa Onilu     Femi Agbaje     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Oladimeji Thompson     Halimat Yusuf     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Ahmad Ali     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Musa Alhassan Buge     Sulyman Buhari     Saliu Tunde Bello     Kwara TV     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Wale Oladepo     Omupo     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Olatinwo     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     ASUU     Toyin Abdullahi     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Sobi FM     Anilelerin     Zaratu Umar     Diagnostic Centre     Jimoh Bashir     Yemi Osinbajo     Sunday Fagbemi     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Tayo Awodiji