IN LOVING 🧡💙💚 MEMORY OF AN ICONIC FIGURE
PROF. AJETUNMOBI M.O
(1951 - 2025 )
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(1951 - 2025 )
Prof. Michael Olusanya Ajetunmobi (1951 - 2025)
A Professor of Mathematics and former Vice Chairman, Ikorodu Division Resource Development Group (IDRDG), an academic gaint, a father, brother and friend has departed from us at the age of 74.
He was born in Ikorodu on the 23rd of February 1951 to his father Chief Benjamin Oke Ajetunmobi, Odofin of Sagamu who hails from Aga Quarters, Ikorodu Town, and Mother, Madam Sarah Abegbe Ajetunmobi (Nee Bamgbose of Saint Matthew Daniels of Lagos Island). Prof. Ajetunmobi was a former Head of Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Lagos State University (LASU) and the first professor of mathematics in Ikorodu Division and was also inducted into the Ikorodu Division Hall of Fame in 2023.
Michael Ajetunmobi attended Ladi-Lak Institute, Yaba from 1957–1964 for his Primary School Education, Lagos City College, Yaba 1969 and Igbobi College, Yaba in 1971 for his Secondary School Education, and passed his West African School Certificate (WASC) with Grade One Aggregate 19. In 1975, he proceeded to University of Ife, Ile-Ife for his first degree and obtained B.Sc (Hons) in Mathematics in 1978. He went further for his M.Sc in the same institution in 1978. By 1984, he did his Ph.D in University of Ibadan and got his Doctorate degree in the same course. He had the best results in the 1975 Degree Examinations in the Faculty Science, University of Ife. Post -Doctoral Academic Fellowship under Association of Commonwealth Universities (1992–1993) tenable at the University of Manchester, U.K.
He has Lectured for over 35 years and is quite passionate about the profession,according to him mathematics is an art course just like music and shouldn't be feared.
He was indeed an Icon survive by one wife(Adenike Ajetunmobi) and two lovely kids(Tope and Tosin).
Some of the books and monographs that Prof. Ajetunmobi authored and contributed to are:
