Onafowokan Michael Olutusen

• Name — Michael Olutusen Onafowokan • Children — 6 • Born — 1 December 1912 • Birthplace — Lagos, Colonial Nigeria • Died — 25 July 1991 • Place of death — Lagos, Nigeria • Significant Buildings — * Cocoa House • Lagos State University Teaching Hospital • Teslim Balogun Stadium • Methodist Boys High School • Alma Mater — Glasgow Caledonian University • Awards — Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON)

Michael Olutusen Onafowokan was born in Ikorodu, Lagos State Nigeria where he attended the Methodist Primary School Ita-Elewa Ikorodu and St. Peters Primary School Faji-Ajele Street Lagos. For his secondary education, he attended the Methodist Boys' High School in Lagos. He passed the Junior Cambridge Examination in 1932, after which he attended the Public Works Department technical school and obtained a diploma in Civil Engineering in 1938.

Michael Olutusen Onafowokan started working after his training at the Public Works Department. Below is a succinct trajectory of his career path.

1937–1946 He also worked in different provinces in Nigeria and some parts of West Africa around this time. Drawing and Quantity Surveying Section – 1937–1939 Junior Technical Staff – 1937–1942 Works and Building Section – 1939–1946

University Evening Classes in Lagos – 1942–1945 passed the University of London Matriculation Examination in 1946 Started at the Royal Technical College London 1946 Transferred to Glasgow Caledonian University in 1947 Bachelor of Science in Architecture – 1952 Post Graduate Diploma in Town Planning – 1953 He returned to Nigeria in 1953 and started working in the old Western region, by 1954 he was working with the Ministry of Lands and Housing in Ibadan and later in the Ministry of Transport. He retired on 1 December 1968 as the Chief Regional Architect. He later went into private practice in the name of Onafowokan Cityscape Group. The architecture firm still exists in the modern day as Onafowokan Cityscape Limited over 30 years after his death. OCL is also a town planning firm.

Some projects done by Onafowakan Michael Olutusen include: • Cocoa House (1964). • Methodist Churches – Ita-Elewa, Aiyepe, Ogbomosho, Otapete, Agbeni. Between (1963–1985). • Lagos State University Teaching Hospital(1972) • Grace Nursery and Primary School Gbagada (1974) • Ikorodu Town Hall (1971–1983). • Oriwu Citrus Club (1987) • Government College Lagos (1976) • Lagos – Ikorodu Link road (1942–1952) • Methodist Boys' High School, Lagos (1969–1985) • Federal Ministry of Education (1975)

These are pictures of works of Michael Olutusen Onafowokan some have been rehabilitated and others still in there original forms maintaining the same facade and elements when they were first designed. • Illustration — Image of the Methodist Church Ita-Elewa in Ikorodu Lagos Nigeria, designed by Arc. Onafowokan Michael Olutusen in the year 1961 • Illustration — Drawing by Architect Onafowokan of design for Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Ikorodu Nigeria in the year 1994 • Illustration — The only classroom block of the Lagos Government College by Eric Moore road Surulere, Lados State, that has not been rehabilitated designed by Onafowokan Michael Olutusen in the year 1974 • Illustration — Archive of Arc. Onafowokan Michael Olutusen showing sectional view of Ikorodu Townhall