Samuel Olatunde Fadahunsi

He was born on 17 March 1920 in Osun State, southwestern Nigeria. He was educated at Saint John School, Iloro, Ilesha, Osun State (1927-1936). He also attended Government College, Ibadan (1937-1942). In 1948, he received a scholarship that earned him a bachelor's degree in Civil engineering at the Battersea Polytechnic in London.^[2] Having completed his bachelor's degree in 1952, he joined the service of Cubits, British engineering company, where he worked for two years.^[3] He returned to Nigeria, where he became a full engineer in 1954.^[4] He left to England in 1957 for a post graduate (PGD) training as a water engineer. He completed the program in 1958 and returned to Nigeria as a Senior Engineer in various towns in the old Western Region, including Abeokuta, Ibadan and Benin.^[5] He later rose to the position of a Chief Water Engineer in the old Western Region of Nigeria (1960-1963). He later became the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (1963-1965) and Chief Executive Officer, Lagos Executive Development Board (LEDB), now Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC) (1965-1972).^[6][7][8] He served as Chairman of Industrial Research Council of Nigeria between 1971 and 1974.^[9]

• Foundation Fellow of The Nigerian Academy of Engineering.^[10]

• Certificate of Honour, Nigerian Boy Scouts Movement^{[citation needed]}
• Officer of the Order of Niger, OFR (1982)^{[citation needed]}
• Commander of the Order of Niger, CON (2002)^[11]

• Ilesha
• Olateju Oyeleye