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Babajide Akinsomi Owoeye
Prof Babajide Akinsomi Owoeye is Chairman Governing Council of Lead City University which was established in  2005, Chairman College Press and Publishers Ltd., Jericho Ibadan (established in 1986); Chairman, Eduserve Consult - an educational consultancy firm. He also started a Microfinance known as the Lead City Microfinance Bank Ltd., In 2008 to for staff and students welfare loan services.

Early life and education
Babajide Akinsomi Owoeye as born on 1st March, 1956 in Ibadan. He started his primary education at the age of six at the United Missionary College (UMC) Demonstration School Ibadan in 1961.He also serveral primary schools such as GTTC primary school, Ilesha, St Matthias primary school, Akure, St. James's Primary School Ibadan. He completed his primary school in 1967 at Methodist Primary School, Oke-Ado, Ibadan. He started his secondary education in 1968 at Olivet Baptist High School Oyo, where he obtained the West African School Certificate (WASC) in 1972. He then furthered to Government College, Ibadan between 1973 and 1974 for his Higher School Certificate (HSC).Owoeye was admitted into the premier University, the University of Ibadan in 1974 to study Sociology and in 1977 he graduated with B.Sc. (Hons) in Sociology. Thereafter he procceded for his Post Graduate education at the University of Ife where he obtained a Master in 1983 and in 1987 he bagged a Doctorate degree. Owoeye also proceeded to the University of South - Africa where he studied a post Graduate Diploma in Distance Learning. Its was from the the South-African experience that he was motivated to venture into intitutuional building at both teriary and one-tertiary. In 1982 owoeye joined the work force of the Obafemi Awolowo University as Administrative Officer I. he was later appointed as Assistant Lecturer in the Department of International Relations in 1983. He later gained Japanese Government Scholarship. hence he was able to pursue his Doctoral field work in Japan for six months along side with a job in Janpan's policy in Africa and was able to badded a Ph,D in international relations in 1987; and become a Professor in 2002. After an excellentl service he voluntarilyretired  from the services of the University in February 2005.