All over the world, records are meant to be created and to be broken. When the issue of the most qualified in Eti Osa part of Lagos Metropolis first came up, a handful of names were thrown up. This got us at CityPulse Nigeria thinking about running an indepth survey.

The result was outstanding!

Virtually all the revered community leaders and elder statesmen we interviewed in Eti Osa pointed at the late two-time second republic minister and senator of the federal republic of Nigeria – Sen. Wahab Olaseinde Dosunmu as being the first to have the highest level of academic degree in Eti Osa.

While Hon Yahya Dosunmu, a former Lagos State House of Reps member, recalled that Dosunmu, Chief A. O. Anjorin, one of the leading permanent secretaries in Lagos then and himself attended the first education building in Ado as far back as 1945 when there was no school at all in Eti Osa.

Not done, his passion for further education cut him out as a cult hero in the community. Imagine getting a Masters when your contemporaries are contented with a university degree,

Let alone a Ph.D!





Dr. Kolade Sulaiman Adams, a lecturer in Lagos State University (LASU) and a fellow Ph.D holder in International Relations and Strategic Studies, described Dosunmu as an illustrious son of Ado community in Eti Osa Local Government Area of Lagos.


A prominent politician and former minister for housing, the late Dosunmu won a seat at the Nigerian senate from 1999-2003.

The politician along with other members of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) was prominent in the struggle for the actualisations of the June 12 presidential mandate of late Chief M.K.O Abiola in 1993. Between 2004 and 2007, he was High Commissioner to Malaysia.

It would be recalled that Dosunmu contested the Lagos governorship primaries in 1999 and lost the ticket to Senator Bola Tinubu. He, however, clinched the ticket for the Lagos Central Senatorial District and won on the platform of Alliance for Democracy (AD). Later, he defected with some other AD federal lawmakers to PDP. Dosunmu remained a vibrant member of the Senate where he was Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology till 2003.

He later fell seriously ill and had to be flown abroad for further treatment. Just when many turned the senator has fully recuperated after he was spotted shuttling in and out of a particular hospital in the United States,

Dosunmu died on Sunday, June 9, 2013 in the presence of his wife, Modinat Dosunmu.

Even in death, his legacies and footprints in Eti Osa and Lagos politics has become a standard of sort for those seeking to emulate his feat.

According to Dr Ade Dosunmu, a former PDP guber candidate in Lagos, it must be noted that a humble family background and strict religious upbringing invested young Wahab with strong character and virtues. He was raised an effective ‘Epetedo boy,’ cosmopolitan, urbane, assertive, dignified, modest and humble! These attributes were a major plank upon which he cultivated a focused and disciplined approach to life.

SOURCE: http://www.citypulseng.com/2017/05/guess-who-holds-record-of-1st-phd.html

Interesting.