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galantjoe:
Thank you for setting the record straigh.

I was a history student in my secondary school days, I thought he was first professor but now I understood he was first doc in maths.

Thank u once again

PataAlhajaKeji:
94.57% of the doyens and foremost professors in all fields of academic endeavours in Nigeria are Afonjas.

... proudly Afonja!

seunmsg:
The throne for that day was what Akinolu sat on. A traditional ruler usually have more than one seat. The one he sat down on that day was the throne while the one that Buhari sat down on was a visitor's chair for that day. That Akiolu's name was written on it doesn't matter. Even the one Osinbajo sat on had Akiolu's name on it.
Stop posting rubbish about a culture you know little or nothing about.

Jonathan39:
Only Imo state will thwart afonja when it comes to professors.

zealousayo:
See this one... Even Ekiti State will have more Professors than the whole of Southeast without even adding Profs from other Southwest States. Unless you want to be tribalistic, you know that in academic line, Yorubas are unrivaled.

zealousayo:
See this one... Even Ekiti State will have more Professors than the whole of Southeast without even adding Profs from other Southwest States. Unless you want to be tribalistic, you know that in academic line, Yorubas are unrivaled.

zealousayo:
See this one... Even Ekiti State will have more Professors than the whole of Southeast without even adding Profs from other Southwest States. Unless you want to be tribalistic, you know that in academic line, Yorubas are unrivaled.

Jonathan39:
https://www.nairaland.com/1400801/imo-state-highest-number-professors

Jonathan39:
Only Imo state will thwart afonja when it comes to professors.

robosky02:
Prof. Adegoke Olubunmo


The 1st Professor of Mathematics in Nigeria

Late Prof. Adegoke Olubunmo, born on April 19, 1923 and died on October 26, 1992, is the first Professor of Mathematics in Nigeria.

Dr. Adegoke Olubummo, with James Ezeilo and Chike Obi, was one of a trio of black (indigenous) mathematicians who pioneered modern mathematics research in Nigeria. He pioneered the establishment of the Forum for Functional Analysis and its Applications and the Nigerian Mathematical Society. Many of his Ibadan students went off to earn the doctorate in mathematics; e.g., T. O. Adewoye, Olusola Akinyele, S. K. Assiamous, V. A. Babola, the Senator S. O. Iyahen, E. O. Oshabi, and O. Popoola.

Professor Olubunmo, who passed on at the age of 69, was apparently the most renowned son of his community during his lifetime and yet was very humble. He was part of the league of eminent Ekiti academics that brought prominence to their fatherland and contributed to the respect accorded the Ekiti for their scholarship and academic brilliance in the history of Nigeria.

He loved his root, home town and associated with them as evident in being among the 1st set of Ekiti elites abroad who built befitting country houses in their respective home towns as far back as 1960s.

Adegoke Olubunmo was the son of the honored first literate Olorin of Orin, H.R.H. Oba William Adekolawolu Olubunmo II and Olori Abigael Osarayi Olubunmo. As a child of parents of high honor, he received an excellent education at Methodist schools in which he worked (Ifaki Methodist School) as a pupil teacher in 1937.

He was born in the early 1920s into a royal family in Orin-Ekiti. He attended Methodist Primary School, Ifaki-Ekiti and concluded his Standard Six at Christ’s School, Ado-Ekiti in 1936/37 which included his name among the 1st set of the foremost school in Ekiti. His quest for higher education did not stop as a Methodist trained and certificated teacher, he proceeded to Freetown and Timbuktu for further studies. How he made the journey to Sierra Leone still remains an unresolved mystery to most of his associates.

A product of Fourah Bay College where he met Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin who was instrumental to his coming to Imade College Owo in 1949 where he worked as a Mathematics and English teacher. Among his students at Imade College was a retired Chief Judge of Ondo State, Justice Adeloye.

In 1951 Professor Olubunmo traveled to Britain and within five years he returned to Nigeria as a PhD holder in Mathematics. Before the turn of a decade he became the first Professor of Mathematics in Nigeria. A testimony of his scholarship and successful academic exploits. His students attested to the fact that punctuality was his hallmark, coupled with brilliance embedded with humility and forthrightness.

He was indeed an embodiment of decency, who imparted convention of respectable behavior to the people around him and this he did by example and certainly not by precept.

To this writer it was a privilege growing-up to know the erudite Professor Olubunmo as a devoted person to his true friends as evident in his condolence message to the family subsequent to the transition of Chief D.O. Adetunmbi, I quote: “Accept my sympathy on the transition of a man I know was very close to you as a father and friend.

You can all take consolation in the certain knowledge that your father lived a truly wonderful life in all respects. For my part, I count myself most fortunate to be numbered among his friends, to have shared his experiences, his joys and sorrows and his deep friendship, sincerity and loyalty for over fifty years. May his great soul rest in peace”

Professor Olubunmo was someone with strong passion for traditional ceremonies and cultural events. He was strict yet kind and approachable. Every opportunity he had he was always bringing his nucleus family to Ekiti to enable them interact with his siblings, relations and family friends. He was inclined to planning his visits to Ekiti such that it afforded him the opportunity to see some annual traditional festivals in his community and environs.

There were few instances when his family came to join his very close ally the Adetunmbis to see Ikosun and Okorobo festivals at Ifaki as far back as 1960s. He had a very liberal disposition to life which explained his inter-tribal marriage to his beloved wife of Calabar origin. Like every other mortal he had his own share of low periods when he lost his devoted wife and mother of his three brilliant children in the late 1970s.

He was a pleasant family man who was blessed with and survived by Yewande, a First Class product of University of Ibadan, under the age of 20 years, Ronke, Gboyega a software Engineer based in USA and Mrs Olubunmo who took care of him until his transition. He retired from the University of Ibadan to take up an appointment with his budding home state institution, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti where he served meritoriously until his transition in October 1992 and his body was laid to rest on November 14 1992.

All three of Adegoke Olubummo’s children are mathematicians. His daugher, Yewande Olubummo, is currently in the United States of America in the capacity of an assistant Professor of Mathematics at Spelman College.

Source:
http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2006/oct/306.html
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/olubummo_adegoke.html

zealousayo:
So you want me to accept a Nairaland post that some Igbo posted to feel himself as a reference? I thought you had something better. Google or ask anywhere, Ekiti has the highest number of Professors (home and diaspora)

robosky02:
Adegoke Olubummo: Nigeria’s First Professor of Mathematics

Adegoke Olubummo was Nigeria’s first Professor of Mathematics in 1964. He was born on April 19, 1923, to the honoured first literate Olorin of Orin, H.R.H. Oba William Adekolawolu Olubummo II and Olori Abigael Osarayi Olubummo in Orin Ekiti.

As a royal child, Olubummo received a quality education at Methodist schools where he worked (Ifaki Methodist School) as a pupil-teacher in 1937. At the age of 14, Adegoke Olubummo was admitted into Wesley College in Ibadan, 1938.

In 1942, he returned to his alma mater as a teacher and for the next few years, he taught at primary and secondary schools in Nigeria, Ghana (then Gold Coast) and Sierra Leone. He earned his B.A. from Fourah College in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1950. Adegoke Olubummo earned his M.A. in Mathematics (1952) and his PhD (1955) from King’s College, University of Durham in Castle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.

In 1955, he began a career as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, University College, Ibadan, Nigeria, where he was promoted to (Full) Professor in 1964. Dr. Olubummo was Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Ibadan for many years, where he was determined to create qualitative traditions in spite of the handicaps of development in a young African university. In 1985, he retired from the University of Ibadan and became Dean of the Faculty of Science of Ondo State University.

https://oldnaija.com/2020/02/24/adegoke-olubummo-nigerias-first-professor-of-mathematics/

3rd Pix: Yewande Olubummo, a professor, is the daughter of the renowned late Professor Adegoke Olubummo, the first Mathematician in Nigeria.

OROSUNBOLB:
Obviously,you're one of those primitive barbarians whose forebears were known primarily for cross border banditry and terrorism ! You have nothing to be proud of ! Why won't you want everybody to be at your miserable level ?

I tell you again,we are not in the same league as you subhuman primates from the evil forests of known savages. As a people ,Yoruba are known worldwide as a successful Africans who have made indelible marks in all areas of human endeavors. Google is there to educate you on that. Take a look at the newly inaugurated Biden's administration and count the number of Africans,Yoruba that are there ? Of course,you're too dumb to know what that says about the Yoruba as a people.

I can't start educating a dumbass,asinine descendant of criminal terrorists like you on the subject of how great the Yoruba are; it doesn't make an iota of any sense ! I however,don't owe you or your criminal lineage any apology for the obvious truth that the Yoruba are a great people and I'm proud to be one !

You are not Yoruba. We ain't dumb like you slowpoke ! Omo irankiran ;

Insulting someone would never help drive home your point .Your statements show you are quite tribal ,which is very bad. We all keep cheering when someone from our tribes becomes successful abroad,but is the so called tribal glory evident in our lives in Nigeria. Objectively how is the Yoruba man distinct in behaviour or character from an Igbo or an Hausa man. We have Yoruba,Igbo,Hausa individuals in charge of the nation and they are all a bunch of insensitive leaders.

OROSUNBOLB:
Obviously,you're one of those primitive barbarians whose forebears were known primarily for cross border banditry and terrorism ! You have nothing to be proud of ! Why won't you want everybody to be at your miserable level ?

I tell you again,we are not in the same league as you subhuman primates from the evil forests of known savages. As a people ,Yoruba are known worldwide as a successful Africans who have made indelible marks in all areas of human endeavors. Google is there to educate you on that. Take a look at the newly inaugurated Biden's administration and count the number of Africans,Yoruba that are there ? Of course,you're too dumb to know what that says about the Yoruba as a people.

I can't start educating a dumbass,asinine descendant of criminal terrorists like you on the subject of how great the Yoruba are; it doesn't make an iota of any sense ! I however,don't owe you or your criminal lineage any apology for the obvious truth that the Yoruba are a great people and I'm proud to be one !

You are not Yoruba. We ain't dumb like you slowpoke ! Omo irankiran ;

Insulting someone would never help drive home your point .Your statements show you are quite tribal ,which is very bad. We all keep cheering when someone from our tribes becomes successful abroad,but is the so called tribal glory evident in our lives in Nigeria. Objectively how is the Yoruba man distinct in behaviour or character from an Igbo or an Hausa man. We have Yoruba,Igbo,Hausa individuals in charge of the nation and they are all a bunch of insensitive leaders.

OROSUNBOLB:
Obviously,you're one of those primitive barbarians whose forebears were known primarily for cross border banditry and terrorism ! You have nothing to be proud of ! Why won't you want everybody to be at your miserable level ?

I tell you again,we are not in the same league as you subhuman primates from the evil forests of known savages. As a people ,Yoruba are known worldwide as a successful Africans who have made indelible marks in all areas of human endeavors. Google is there to educate you on that. Take a look at the newly inaugurated Biden's administration and count the number of Africans,Yoruba that are there ? Of course,you're too dumb to know what that says about the Yoruba as a people.

I can't start educating a dumbass,asinine descendant of criminal terrorists like you on the subject of how great the Yoruba are; it doesn't make an iota of any sense ! I however,don't owe you or your criminal lineage any apology for the obvious truth that the Yoruba are a great people and I'm proud to be one !

You are not Yoruba. We ain't dumb like you slowpoke ! Omo irankiran ;

zoedew:
Proudly Orin. Proudly Ekiti!!

Oloniyan:
Are you for real? Where in Orin are you from

zoedew:
PM me.