Christopher Kolade, doyen of the boardroom, broadcaster, and teacher, died peacefully early Thursday, aged 93.
Dr Kolade was born in Erin-Oke, Osun State, Nigeria, 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). LBS and SMC are both schools of Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos. Formerly a member of the university’s Governing Council, Kolade also served as the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Pan-Atlantic University. He was also the Chancellor of McPherson University, Ogun, Nigeria.
Kolade has promoted business integrity in Nigeria through his chairmanship of organisations such as Integrity Organisation Ltd GTE and The Convention on Business Integrity Ltd GTE.
