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Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye OON, CON (born 25 April 1938 – 2017) was a Nigerian quantity surveyor, entrepreneur, and traditional title holder. He was the first Northern Nigerian quantity surveyor and the second Nigerian Quantity Surveyor. In 2006 President Olusegun Obasanjo awarded him the OON (Officer of the Order of the Niger) and CON (Commander of the Order of the Niger)

He attended African Bethel School Ebute-Metta Lagos between 1948 and 1951 and St Marks school in 1952 he attended Offa Grammar School between 1953 and 1957 for his secondary school before attending Yaba College of Technology in 1958 he graduated in Nigerian College of Arts, Science, and Technology Enugu in 1959 further his education to South East College of Arts, Science, and Technology UK between 1961 and 1963.

The Founder Of Okin Biscuits, Late Chief Emmanuel Adesoye Hailed From Offa, Kwara State And Should Have Been 89 Years Old Yesterday . He Was The Famous Nigerian Brand Of Biscuits, Founded In 1980 And Were A Staple Of Childhood In The 1980s And 1990s. The Company Is Situated In Ijagbo, Near Offa In Kwara State, The Company Produced Well-known Varieties Such As Cabin, Shortcake, And Coaster, Becoming One Of West Africa's...

Chief Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye (1938–2017) was a renowned Nigerian industrialist, philanthropist, and the founder of Okin Biscuits (established 1980) based in Ijagbo, near Offa, Kwara State. He was a trailblazer, recognized as the first qualified quantity surveyor in Northern Nigeria.

, Adesoye kan, Offa kan, he was based in Kaduna. If you were born in the 90s and you didn't eat short cake, you missed. The man was a philanthropist.

That square Shortcake is the real deal. The round okin is for elderly or older people, just like coaster biscuits

I don't him or his biscuits but he really try

I chop this biscuits then Wella

Okin that Biscuit that year ehn....Gen z will never understand

He has made his mark and history will not forget him.

Wow! My favourite biscuit.

Definitely modern day Nigerian biscuits company must have copied from him.

Better biscuits. Very nice and sweet

You can't be born in d 90s and you won't eat that snacks..😂😀😀..if you don't like the round one you must love the shortcake bcuz of it's sweetness

iwaeda:
, Adesoye kan, Offa kan, he was based in Kaduna. If you were born in the 90s and you didn't eat short cake, you missed. The man was a philanthropist.

If you go to the production factory now, it's just like a haunted house or ghost house full with cobwebs, old and dilapidated structures. Spoilt and abandoned vehicles and buses. nothing really last forever

He had another one that looks like short cake

How can this Yoruba man be a Northerner?

I imagine that some, if not most of his grandchildren and even children are abroad where industrialists like him engage more to make the society reflect their worldviews on basic government responsibilities that create the environment for continuous business growth.

For example what % of schools were free and government owned in 1938 when he was born, compared with 2017 when he died? How does the change in ratio reflect the growth in government revenues during his 79 years on earth?

What of teachers salary then compared with now vis-a-vis politicians

anonimi:
Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?

In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;

or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority?
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The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.

Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/10/12/neo-black-problem-must-blacks-be-ruled-by-whites-in-order-to-prosper/

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This biscuit help us that year for school.
Today we have successful engr doctors.. lawyers.. architects..that can trace their success to the school days when this biscuit ce through for the in time of hunger. By the time you eat that biscuit your brain go open to learn.

God bless his soul.

The Short-cake biscuit then was a fire 🔥

I don't know why his legacies are not maintained after his death.

The Okin short Cake can be compared to today's Digestive Biscuit.

Adewale1603:
If you go to the production factory now, it's just like a haunted house or ghost house full with cobwebs, old and dilapidated structures. Spoilt and abandoned vehicles and buses. nothing really last forever

Unlike most oyinbo.. companies!

Had the tenacity and was ON PAR with Dangote at the time

When Dangote dies is when people would realise how much of an industrialist he was

And God being so good his CEOS are non Nigerians who simply continue from
Where he left

Nice biscuit. E really try

Okin Biscuit, was a delight, growing up.

Didn't know Pa Adesoye, though but had the privilege of meeting two of his sons (don't know if he had more), one of whom is Shola Adesoye, the lead pastor of Light House Church.

moscobabs:
How can this Yoruba man be a Northerner?

He was born in the north and I think he started in the north

Till today, some Aboki dey get hun biscuit..

moscobabs:
How can this Yoruba man be a Northerner?

He was from Offa in Kwara State which is considered one of the 19 northern states.
Absurd I agree 💯

Does this biscuit still exist? He made my childhood fun, before APC ruined Nigeria.

Adewale1603:
If you go to the production factory now, it's just like a haunted house or ghost house full with cobwebs, old and dilapidated structures. Spoilt and abandoned vehicles and buses. nothing really last forever

I was around Ijagbo/Igosun not too long ago. I was reminiscing of the old good days, the smell from Ojuirin will make you know you are near okin. Kindly Olorun bawa da igba pada.

moscobabs:
How can this Yoruba man be a Northerner?

Ayederu Jagaban of Borgu is even more northerner than the Sultan, so .....?

FLASHBACK: Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola narrating the life of Tinubu years ago. #Ayederu (Counterfeit)pic.twitter.com/xr40gXe9Qx

— ayemojubar 🫆 (@ayemojubar) June 26, 2022

anonimi:
How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals

AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.

Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.

The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.

In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.

He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/how-we-foiled-jonathans-effort-to-make-mulika-adeola-speaker-akande-reveals/

Chai.... Okin biscuits especially the squared one was my favorite...

My favourite that year. So delicious.

Was he not also the founder of Adesoye college in Offa?