Olabiyi Durojaiye
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Olabiyi Durojaiye | |
|---|---|
| Senator for Ogun East | |
| In office 29 May 1999 – 29 May 2003 | |
| Succeeded by | Tokunbo Ogunbanjo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 February 1933 |
| Died | 24 August 2021 (aged 88) Lagos, Nigeria |
Olabiyi Durojaiye ⓘ (8 February 1933[1] – 24 August 2021[2]) was elected Senator for the Ogun East constituency of Ogun State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.[3] He also used the tribal title Otunba as a pre-nominal style, thereby highlighting his position as a chieftain of the Yoruba people.
Durojaiye earned a BSc (Economics) London, and an LLB, London. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1979, and was a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He also graduated from the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru. He worked for 35 years in the Nigerian public sector, including 28 years as a Director of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the National Mint.
He worked with the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve System in the U.S.A. and the City University London between 1964 and 1982.[4]