Bebe Akinboade

FORMER PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT, GAMALIEL ONOSODE IS DEAD

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Mr. Gamaliel
Offoritsenere Onosode, 82, one of Nigeria’s finest technocrats is dead. According
to a statement credited to the family, Onosode died at about 8:15 am today,
September 29, 2015, at the Gold Cross Hospital, Ikoyi, Lagos.
Gamaliel Onosode
was born 22 May 1933 in Sapele, Delta State, Nigeria. He was educated at the
Government College, Ughelli and the University of Ibadan. He emerged in the
1970s, as one of Nigeria’s leading educated chief executives, when he was at
the helm of NAL Merchant Bank of Nigeria.

Throughout
his career, Dr. Gamaliel Onosode chaired several private and public sector
businesses and initiatives. He was the Chairman of Dunlop Nigeria Plc
(1984–2007), a former chairman of Cadbury Nigeria Plc (1977–93), the Presidential
Commission on Parastatals (1981), Nigeria LNG Working Committee and Nigeria LNG
Limited (1985–90) and the Niger Delta Environmental Survey (since 1995). He is
also the Chairman of Zain Nigeria, a GSM telecommunications company, the oldest
GSM operator in Nigeria.
May his soul
rest in peace!
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