Engr. Olateju Oyeleye

Birth Date: April 7, 1937

Home Town: Ilesa

Location: Festac Town, Lagos

Country: Nigeria

Alumni: Old Student

Category: INDUSTRY

Period: 1935 - 1942

Profession: Chartered Engineer

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Phone: 01-885 682

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Born on April 7, 1924 at Ilesa.
Attended University of London, 1952-57

Experience
Postal Clerk, P&T, Lagos, 1943-51
Engineer, Ferguson Radio Corp., England, 1957-59
General Manager, WNTV-WNBS, 1966-73
General Manager, Total Nigeria PLC, 1977-84
Group Executive Director, Total Nigeria PLC, 1984
Managing Director, Yakooyo Agrik LTD, 1992 to date
Chairman, Sigma Petroleum, 1992 to date

A fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers of which he was one time chairman, he was also chairman of the NSE board of trustees for 10 years. Oyeleye can be aptly described as a self-developed person. Having done no science at the secondary school level, he attended university evening classes to enable him undertake an engineering degree in London in 1957.he is a fellow of the NSE (registered engineer), Nigerian Institute of Management, Institute of Petroleum, London, and the Institute of Electrical Engineers, London (chartered engineer). A man of many areas, as first professional chief executive of the WNBS, he led a team of Nigerians to make WNTV-WNBS a successful commercial broadcasting service, and co-founded the Broadcasting Organizations of Nigeria. He left the services of the broadcasting outfit in 1973 to join Total Nigeria Plc where he rose to the position Group Executive Director before retiring in December 1991.Other feathers to his cap include having been president, NSE (1976-77),president, NIM (1989-1991), and chairman, COREN committee on registration of technicians leading to the COREN Decree 27 of 1992.

There is no doubt, Engr. Olateju Oyeleye has seen it all and his wisdom is worth sharing. He retired into mechanized farming and is managing director of Yakooyo Agrik Limited, (formerly Total Agrik)