History of Harris Eghagha The founder of ogun State Polytechnic..(moshood abiola Polytechnic)

History of Harris Eghagha The founder of ogun State Polytechnic.. 

  

History of Harris Eghagha The founder of ogun State Polytechnic now moshood abiola Polytechnic.. 

 Harris Otadafevwerha Deodemise Eghagha

Governor of Ogun State

In office

July 1978 – October 1979

Preceded by Saidu Ayodele Balogun

Succeeded by Olabisi Onabanjo

Personal details

Born 8 March 1934

Okpe LGA, Delta State, Nigeria

Died 19 March 2009

Brigadier General Harris Otadafevwerha

Deodemise Eghagha was appointed Military

Governor of Ogun State, Nigeria from July

1978 to October 1979 during the military

regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo ,

handing over power to the elected governor

Olabisi Onabanjo at the start of the Nigerian

Second Republic.

Eghagha was born on 8 March 1934 in

Mureje, Okpe Local Government Area, Delta

State.

His achievements while governor

of Ogun State included building the legislative

quarters and the road network in Abeokuta ,

the state capital.

 He built and

commissioned the Ogun State Hotel, Abeokuta,

established industrial estates throughout the

State and founded the Ogun State Polytechnic

(now Moshood Abiola Polytechnic ) in

Abeokuta. 

He founded the Polytechnic when Governor Jemibewon's administration sent ogun State indigenes back to Abeokuta under the pretext that every member of the new State must go to his or her State of origin.. 

He also served as Acting

Governor of Sokoto and Kwara States, and was

Nigeria's High Commissioner to Ghana.

Brigadier Harris Eghagha died at the Lagos

University Teaching Hospital on 19 March

2009, aged 75.

Brief history of moshood abiola Polytechnic click here

History of Babalakin click here Credit to Encyclopedia  and lawal ibrahim ABAYOMI 

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Brief profile of Bolanle olawale Babalakin

Brief profile of Bolanle olawale Babalakin

D. O.B 1 July 1960 in the ancient city of Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria..

Education:
Alma mater University of Lagos , Cambridge
University

Occupation Lawyer, businessman and
philanthropist

Spouse(s) Olugbolahan Babalakin

Awards:
 Senior Advocate of Nigeria
(SAN), Officer of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria (OFR)

Early life and education of Babalakin
Dr. Wale Babalakin was born on 1 July 1960
in the ancient Nigerian city of Ibadan in Oyo
State. His father, the Honourable Mr. Justice
Bolarinwa Oyegoke Babalakin is a retired
Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria ,
and his mother, Mrs. Ramotu Ibironke
Babalakin, was a pioneer female hospital
proprietress in Ibadan. He attended Sacred
Heart Private School,  then proceeded to the
prestigious Government College, Ibadan (GCI)
for his secondary school education and was
the Banjo prize winner in Grier House in 1971.
For his 'A’ Levels, Babalakin attended The
Polytechnic, Ibadan[6] and was subsequently
admitted into the University of Lagos in 1978,
where he graduated as one of the best three
students in the Faculty of Law in 1981. He
proceeded to the Nigerian Law School where
he was called to the Nigerian Babalakin in 1982.
In 1982, Wale Babalakin was one of only three
Africans admitted into Corpus Christi College
at Cambridge University for the pioneer Master
of Laws Degree. Although his academic
program was sponsored by his father, in 1984,
he could not resist the allure and prestige of a
Commonwealth Scholarship which in that
year was only made available to three
Nigerian students studying abroad and who
were awarded the scholarship for outstanding
academic performance. Wale Babalakin was
awarded the LLM Degree in 1983 and
proceeded immediately with his doctoral
program. Dr. Babalakin received his PhD in
1986 on the eve of his 26th birthday.(http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wale_Babalakin)


Babalakin as a Philanthrophist
Dr. Wale Babalakin is very committed to a lot
of philanthropic activities. When the office of
the Public Defender in Lagos was gutted by
fire, Dr. Babalakin realised the significant role
this institution had to play in defending the
rights of the masses and opted to rebuild and
furnish it. He has over the years executed the
following:
Donated an 80-bed hostel to the University
of Ilorin in the name of his father, the
Hon. Mr. Justice Bolarinwa Oyegoke
Babalakin.
Donated an 80-bed hostel in Ibogun,
Ogun State in memory of his mother,
Mr.
Ramotu Ibironke Babalakin.
Donated a 500-seater auditorium to the
Moshood Abiola Polytechnic in memory
of his late mother.
Which is what marketing student of mapoly are still using till date

Treated 1000 patients with various eye
diseases in Aye daade Local
Government.
Treated 4000 patients with various eye
diseases in Owo Local Government under
the foundation set up in memory of his late
mother.
He has an elaborate scholarship in and
out of Nigeria with over 200 students in
Nigeria and about 40 students abroad.

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History of moshood abiola polytechnic (mapoly brief history)

The polytechnic system in Ogun state was conceived and born "a child of circumtance" as the planning and execution were concluded to counter the disadvantageous effects of sharing one polytechnic among three new states of Oyo,Ogun and Ondo created from a single state in february 1976,The polytechnic, ibadan served the then western state of Oyo,ondo and ogun became joint owners of ibadan polytechnic.There was an agreement among the three states that the polytechnic will be jointly fiananced for 2years to give ogun and Ondo states time to plan for their own polytechnics..

     THE SITE

The ogun state Government by notice No.392 of Ogun state of Nigeria Gazette. No.39 Vol.2 dated 22nd December,1977 acquired a parcel of land at the outskirt of Abeoukuta for the permanent site of the colledge of Technology later known as ogun state polytechnic and presently known as Moshood Abiola polytechnic..

  The permanent site of the Polytecnic which takes its popular name ojere from a village bearing that name and which forms part of its eastern boundary along old owode road is located on the south western urban fringe of Abeoukta .its bounded on the west by the ogun river while the southern and northern boundaries of the site adjoin rural land.
     
    Within the acquired land mass were well fifteen villages but only four of them-ijeun,Agbadu,Agejo and Adekambi remain as settlements within the acquired land to date..(Village that exist within Mapoly)....

  Land mass acquired for mapoly was 959.984 hectares and was precisely mapped out in the permiter survey...

Contd on my post Mapoly History to date

Reference;Moshood Abiola polytecnic Historical Perspective By Sonola,Adebayo,Salami....
Credit to lawal ibrahim Abayomi a student of moshood abiola polytechnic,owner @ Amebomapoly.com

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Mapoly student shut dead now during log out cult war

Marketing student just passed in front of me some minutes ago all I could just see is student running back towards my direction on reaching there I saw him lied down flat on the ground... RIP.. IYANA OLUWA ABEOKUTA 03:55 REPORT ING LIFE ON SEEN... SHUN CULTISM

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