Brief resume of the late erudite schorlar, an ex- Vice Chancellor of FUTA) and the first indigenous HoD of Architecture and Dean, Environmental Design, ABU, Zaria.
The first professor of Architecture in Nigeria and Africa South of Sahara, Ekundayo Adeyinka Adeyemi, is dead.
Platforms Africa reports that the Former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Science and Technology, Akure (FUTA) was also the first indigenous Head of Department of Architecture and Dean of Environmental Design in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
A veteran journalist and former governorship aspirant in Ekiti state, Babafemi Ojudu, announced Professor Ekundayo’s death through an update on his Facebook page.
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The update apparently copied from another source read;
“PROFESSOR EKUNDAYO ADEYINKA ADEYEMI has gone to be with the LORD, one of the foremost and noticeable EKITI FOUNTAIN OF KNOWLEDGE has gone to be with the LORD. The first professor of Architecture in Nigeria and Africa South of Sahara. Bishop David Oyedepo described him as a man committed to excellence in all his endeavour. The Aro of Oketoro Quarter at Iyin Ekiti in Ekiti State.
“He was the first indigenous Head of Department of Architecture and Dean of Environmental Design in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Science and Technology, Akure (FUTA). He retired to pioneer the new Department of Architecture at Covenant University, Ota. Simplicity was his hallmarks, nothing complex.
“Farewell, the Professor of professors and an erudite scholar.”
