Former NEPA IT Director, Engineer Olusola Idowu Oduko, Is Dead

● Emotional tributes household wrote for the Ilaje-Ondo born engineer who handed On At 78

A former IT Director of the defunct National Electric Power Authority, NEPA, Prince Deacon Engineer Olusola Idowu Oduko, has handed on, bringing to a detailed a life wealthy in love, household, religion, and friendship.

NOP NIGERIA experiences that the engineer, who lived from 22 November 1947 to 13 October 2026, was introduced to have transited after a fulfilled journey marked by skilled excellence, deep Christian devotion, and selfless service to humanity.

Born in Lagos to Late Oba P. F. Oduko, The Liken of Ibefun, Ijebu, Ogun State, and Olori W. E. Oduko, younger Olusola spent his adolescence between Lagos and the Ilaje areas of Ondo State, rising up amongst many siblings in a house formed by heat, shared accountability, and powerful household values.

His early schooling started at St. Peter’s Faji, Lagos, and throughout varied major faculties within the outdated Western Region, earlier than he proceeded in 1960 to the distinguished Ijebu Ode Grammar School, JOGS, the place he distinguished himself academically and socially.

At JOGS, he was lively within the Scripture Union and Student Christian Movement, represented the college in garden tennis, served as Head Prefect in 1966, and coordinated the Temperance Society beneath the steering of the late Bishop S. C. Phillips, later spending a part of his Higher School Certificate research at Brentwood School, Essex, UK, on a scholar trade programme.

His quest for excellence took him to Manchester University, the place he studied Mechanical Engineering on a Shell Scholarship, adopted by a number of Shell International skilled and management programs that formed his future profession.

Olusola’s skilled journey was as numerous because it was impactful, starting with a trip job at Kainji Dam, then becoming a member of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Lagos, as an IT Programmer after graduating in 1970, and rising to turn into Head of IT in SPDC Warri, earlier than his appointment as IT Director at NEPA.

Beyond NEPA, he taught at Baptist Academy, Lagos, established Value Market grocery store, based his non-public IT consultancy Data Masters Ltd, pioneered on-line information data and processing programs for the Ondo State Government, and ran church-based coaching programmes, incomes a repute for integrity, diligence and exemplary management.

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A loyal household man, he was a loving husband, father to 3 daughters — Olukemi, Olufunmilayo, and Aderonke — grandfather to 4 grandchildren, and a powerful pillar inside the Oduko household union, constructing his house on Christian values, love, self-discipline, generosity and prayer.

His Christian religion outlined his public life, serving as a long-standing Deacon and Church Secretary at New Estate Baptist Church, Surulere, first Coordinator of its Couples Fellowship, Chairman of its Constitution Drafting Committee, Secretary and later Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso, Fund Raising Committee, and as one in every of Nigeria’s earliest Christian tv preachers on Ogun State Television.

He later worshipped on the Cathedral Church of the Pentecost, Festac, Lagos, whereas remaining a powerful supporter of his house church, Holy Trinity Church, Ibefun, opening his house to people recovering from drug dependancy and serving faithfully as a member of The Gideons International.

A outstanding member and former President of the JOGS Independent Club, Prince Oduko was remembered by family and friends as a bridge between generations, a Deacon whose life was a dwelling sermon, and an Engineer whose integrity set a regular, whose reminiscence stays a blessing for having fought the great combat and completed his race.

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