He attended Ijebu Ode Grammar School where he
obtained Cambridge Higher School Certificate (HSC) and GCE, Advance Level in
1964. In 1995, he won a Soviet Union Government scholarship to study Aeronautic
Engineering in the former USSR. He obtained Diploma in Russian Language at the
Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR (1965-1967). He proceeded to Kiev
Institute of Aviation Engineers, Kiev in former Soviet Union where he obtained
Masters of Science in Aeronautical Engineering (M.Sc) in 1972 and then to
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA for
the Doctor of Science D.Sc in Aircraft Gas Turbine & Jet Propulsion Engines
(1975). He was a former Assistant Director of Airworthiness and rose to become
the Director of Safety Services in the defunct Federal Civil Aviation Authority
before he retired in 1995.
His research work is on the Design, Manufacturing and Testing of high Temperature, high Pressure ratio transonic
turbine blades for advance gas turbines and jet aircraft engines for the United
States Air Force and Navy at the Gas Turbine and Jet Aircraft Propulsion
Laboratory (1972-1974) and also a joint experimental investigator with the
Turbo-machinery Group of Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics at Rhode Saint
Genesse, Belgium, a NATO Research Institute (1974-1975)
He currently serves in the International Advisory Committee and a Member of Board of Governors of the Flight Safety Foundation, Virginia, USA; Fellow, New York Academy of Science (1980); Member, Sigma XI “The Scientific Research Society of North America” MIT Chapter (1977); Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (AMSE), 1976); Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 1976. He was the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) between 2006 - 2013.
