Christopher Kolade, doyen of the boardroom, broadcaster, and teacher, died peacefully early Thursday, aged 93 years.
Dr Kolade was born in Erin-Oke, Osun State, in 1932. He was the son of an Anglican missionary and completed his secondary-school education at Government College, Ibadan, after which he studied at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
He worked as a broadcaster and was Director General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. He was Chief Executive and Chairman of Cadbury Nigeria PLC and formerly the Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
Kolade was a colonial-era education officer in Nigeria. And taught corporate governance and human resources management at the Lagos Business School (LBS), as well as leadership & conflict management at the School of Media & Communication (SMC)
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