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Dr Johnson B. O. Adewumi, PhD, FNSE

Chancellor and Founder


Dr Adewumi is a renowned educationist, philanthropist and community leader – The Asiwaju of Oko-Irese.

Born on November 26, 1952, in Oko-Irese, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, Adewumi holds a PhD (Civil Engineering) degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London (December 1982); M. Sc. D.I.C (Hydrology), Imperial College of Science & Technology, London (June 1979) and B. Sc. (Civil) Second Class Upper Division, University of Lagos, Lagos, (June 1976). He is a Chartered Engineer, Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria.

He has traversed the Public and Private Sectors of the Nigerian Economy for about 43years, garnering useful experience across the broad fields of Engineering Construction, Design, Policy formulation, Research and Teaching.

He served as Water Resources expert for bilateral and multilateral organizations and his work and other experts’ formed the basis of the Water sharing Agreement between the Government of Federal Republic of Nigeria and Niger for the Four River Basin common to the two countries in 1985.

He has worked on many large water resources and hydropower projects in various capacities including the Multi-purpose Gurara Water Transfer Project, reputed as the largest of its kind in Africa; engineering design of 3050MW Mambilla Hydropower Project and 700MW Zungeru Hydropower projects where he served as Project Director for the Engineering Design and Construction.

JBO, as fondly call, is a Resource person on the Training Program of ACEN Dams design and Geotechnical Investigation for Large Dams and was elected as President of Nigeria Committee on Large dams in May 2018 to serve for a period of 3 years ending May 2021.

On the global stage, the Asiwaju of Oko-Irese is a member of the International Committee on the Integrated Management of Hydropower Reservoirs whose members are drawn from USA, China, Canada, Nigeria, Switzerland, Germany and France.

The Proprietor of Thomas Adewumi University undertook to establish a University as a logical progression of its efforts in the provision of qualitative University education at the primary and secondary school levels. The ethos of Thomas Adewumi University is excellence and the institution aims to become a major and key player in the delivery of University education of the highest quality in Nigeria as well as to produce graduates that would benefit themselves and the human capital for the rapid and much socio-economic development of the country. 

The Proprietor of Thomas Adewumi University undertook to establish a University as a logical progression of its efforts in the provision of qualitative University education at the primary and secondary school levels. The ethos of Thomas Adewumi University is excellence and the institution aims to become a major and key player in the delivery of University education of the highest quality in Nigeria as well as to produce graduates that would benefit themselves and the human capital for the rapid and much socio-economic development of the country. 

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