One of the leading, successful
and prominent Nigeria’s businessmen, Chief Molade Okay Thomas, is dead.
Report has it that the
business mogul passed away earlier yesterday Feburary 2nd.
Okoya-Thomas (MFR) was born in
Lagos on 8th June, 1935 to the Late Hussam Okoya-Thomas (the first Baba Adinni
of Furabay Mosque, Olowogbowo, Lagos and the first local staff of CFAO, who
served the company for 52 years) and the Late Alhaja Suwebat Okoya-Thomas (née
Gbajabiamila, Otun Iya Adinni of Idita Mosque).
He studied at Princess School,
Lagos, 1946; Balham and Tooting College of Commerce, London, 1956-1959;
Columbia University, New York, US, 1981. He was appointed director, Transcap
Nigeria Limited; director, Niger Motors Industries Limited; chairman, Studio
Press Nigeria Limited and has been the chairman of CFAO Nigeria Limited since
1987.
He was the Chancellor of Lagos
state University till death. As a philanthropist with sport enthusiasm, he
sponsored the popular annual Asoju Oba Table
Tennis Championship in Lagos for decades.
He held the Nigerian national
honor of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic, and was a recipient of
the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, the highest national honor given by the
French to a foreigner.
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