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'Tunji L'ght Ariyo (born 1972) trained as a Civil/Structural Engineer at the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria. He was nominated International Poet of Merit by the International Society of Poets in 1995. He won the overall best candidate prize in the Professional Examination of the Nigerian Society of Engineers in 20051 and has served twice as Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Ondo State, Nigeria on information technology. He is a playright, a poet and has authored works in literature engineering and computing. His love is engineering, computing and writing.

Tunji L'ght Ariyo (Olatunji Ariyomo) is a youth icon in Ondo State3,4and he can be decribed as the pioneer of electronic governance system in Ondo State4,5(he introduced the state's e-portal www.ondostate.gov.ng, security survellance system1, computerisation of processes of internally generated revenue www.ondostate-bir.com which pushed the state's Internally Generated Revenue up by close to 50 percent5) and has been one of the key advocates of electronic knowledge based system in Nigeria5,6. He was one of four Nigerians sponsored by government to participate in the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government's Science Technology and Innovation programme (2008 batch). As a youth involved in leadership, he innitiated the current scheme allowing promising youths to be trained to aquire professional certification in India. Four young natives of Ondo State benefitted from this scheme between January and March 2009.

References: 1. http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/article27//indexn3_html?pdate=290109&ptitle=Ondo%20boosts%20security%20system&cpdate=290109 2. http://www.ondostate.gov.ng/pdf/sitdec_brand.pdf 3. http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/2003/may/10/0036.html 4. http://www.ondostategovernment.net/pdf/coordinator_interview.pdf 5. http://odili.net/news/source/2006/jan/1/421.html 6. http://www.ondostategovernment.net/news_details.php?id=1575 7. http://www.ondostategovernment.net/news_details.php?id=2005