User:Kayode oriyomi odubela

Kayode Oriyomi Odubela (born October 15, 1967) is a Nigerian Quantity Surveyor, Professional Manager, Certified Entrepreneur and Internet blogger. He attended Ijebu-Ode Grammar School (1980-84) and obtained HND in Quantity Surveying from Yaba College of Technology, Lagos in 1993. He was a Participant in the Programme for Aspiring Entrepreneurs (AEP3) of the Fate School of Entrepreneurship (an impacting Faculty of the prestigious Fate Foundation, Lagos) in 2001.

He was the National Publicity Secretary of the National Association of Quantity Surveying Students, General Secretary of the National Association of Ogun State Students (Yabatech Chapter), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Esemgee Press Club, Yabatech and a Member of the Guild of Editors, Yabatech all in 1992/93 academic session. An Associate Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management, he has publications to his credit in The Guardian, The Construction Economist, The Nigerian Quantity Surveyor and a defunct national weekly The New Agenda and he is both a Wikipedia Contributor and an internet blogger on Netlog and Facebook.

Kayode was in Nigerian politics as a Member, Executive and State delegate of various political parties and associations namely Peoples' Front of Nigeria, National Republican Convention, Congress for National Consensus, Democratic Party of Nigeria and Peoples Democratic Party between 1987 and 2005 when he voluntarily and completely left Nigerian politics because of its violent nature.

Professionally, he has been involved in over 200 construction jobs since he joined the construction industry in 1985 working with estate developers, building/civil engineering contractors and quantity surveying consulting firms.

He is the Assistant Secretary of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (Ogun State Chapter), an active member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (Abeokuta Branch) NIQS Delegate to the Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria (Ogun State Branch)and a member of Idowa Development Forum(IDF), the preeminent forum of Idowa professionals, businessmen and women and philantropists.

Kayode is a strong believer in public good and is presently involved in several social responsibility projects as a volunteer among which is the Secretary of the Projects Committee of the Ijebu-Ode Grammar School Old Boys Association working towards the Centenary (100years) Celebrations of Ijebu-Ode Grammar School (the oldest secondary school in Ijebuland, 2nd oldest secondary school in Ogun State and 4th oldest Grammar school in Nigeria) and had rendered free quantity surveying consulting services for churches, mosques, non-for-profit/non-governmental organisations and communities since 1985.

He is a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God

A native of Idowa, Odogbolu LGA of Ogun State of Nigeria, he had his childhood in Ijebu-Ode and currently works and lives with his family in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State