Office Of The Chancellor

Pastor (Dr) Oluwawemimo Odunaiya (FCA) is The Chancellor of Joseph Ayo Babalola University and holds a Bachelor of Communication (Honours) from the University of Liverpool, England after which he qualified as a member of the Institute of Chartered of Accountants in England and Wales in 1971. He worked briefly with Coopers and Lybrand in Liverpool before returning to Nigeria to assume headship of his family business Oba-Nle-Aro Group of Companies involved in the importation and sales of building materials.

Pastor Odunaiya was a co-founder of Access Bank and a non-executive director for fourteen years and also a Vice-Chairman of the bank from 1997 to 2003 when he voluntarily retired.

He was Chairman of Governing Council of his alma mater, Mayflower Grammar School, Ikenne, Ogun State between 1984 and 1989.  He was ordained as a pastor in Christ Apostolic Church in 1995 and was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Joseph Ayo Babalola University in 2005.

He is presently the Chairman of Industrial and Farms Equipment Company Limited (IFECO) as well as Daltrade Nigeria Limited, a Nigerian-Polish manufacturing company. He developed IFECO, simply an importing company, into a manufacturing company. Both IFECO and Daltrade Nigeria Limited have empowered about one thousand employees.

He relinquished the headship of the firm to his siblings to establish Wemy Industries Ltd in 1978, the first indigenous company to manufacture baby diapers after which it began manufacturing sanitary towels under the brand name of Dr. Browns.

Dr Oluwawemimo Odunnaiya

The Chancellor