A former Deputy Registrar of the West African Examinations Council, Chief Dotun Oyewole, is dead.
A statement by the family on Wednesday said he was 94.
Oyewole attended primary school at St. John’s School, Igbein, Abeokuta from 1928 to 1933 and the Abeokuta Grammar School from 1934 to 1940, where he also began his teaching career in 1941 as a teacher.
He attended science preparatory classes at Yaba College in 1942 and between 1946 and 1947, he taught Physics and Mathematics at Abeokuta Grammar School, the statement added.
It added that in 1947, Oyewole was awarded a Nigerian Government scholarship to study in the UK.
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the University of Durham in 1950, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of London.
“Upon returning to Nigeria in 1951, he went back to teach at the Abeokuta Grammar School as a senior Physics and Mathematics master. He was also a part-time Latin and physics teacher at the Anglican Girls Grammar School, Surulere, Lagos.
“In 1961, Chief Oyewole was appointed Assistant Registrar at WAEC where he remained until 1976, rising through the ranks to the position of Senior Deputy Registrar and Head of the Nigeria National Office,” the statement added.
Oyewole retired from WAEC in 1976 and co-founded the Abeokuta Continuing Education Centre with his twin brother, Chief Femi Oyewole. The centre ran arts and sciences remedial and commercial courses as well as computer, secretarial and aviation courses.
In appreciation of his valuable contribution to science and education, Oyewole received the Fellow of the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria in 1980 and the Distinguished Sustained Service to Science Education in 1997.
He was also honoured with the Ogun State University Development Foundation Presidential Merit Award for his contributions to university education in Nigeria in 1998 as well as WAEC Merit Award for meritorious services. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
The article should have mentioned that the "Oyewole twins" - Dotun and Femi wrote what were perhaps the first Physics and Chemistry textbooks written by a Nigerian - "Introduction to Physics" and "Introduction to Chemistry" - which were standard textbooks for those of us in secondary school in the sixties. Those were great men!
ReplyDelete