President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family, academia and friends of renowned economist, Professor Owodunni Teriba, who passed away recently at 82.<\/p>\n
In a condolence message in Abuja on Friday by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, the President lauded the can-do spirit of the departed, who studied privately for his advance level education and completed his Bachelors in Economics at the University of Ibadan in 1962.<\/p>\n
He then received a scholarship to attend the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, obtaining Masters in Economics in 1963 and PhD in same discipline in 1965.<\/p>\n
Teriba returned to the University of Ibadan in 1966 as a senior lecturer and was Head of the Department of Economics from 1975 \u2013 1985.<\/p>\n
He was also at various times a Visiting Scholar and External Examiner at several universities in Nigeria, the USA, and other parts of Western, Eastern and Southern Africa.<\/p>\n
While on sabbatical from the University of Ibadan, Teriba began working as a consultant to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
In 1985, he became the Senior Regional Adviser to the Member States of the Commission on Economic Surveys, Research and Planning.<\/p>\n
He also served as the Commission\u2019s Chief Economist and Director, Socio-Economic Research and Planning Department in 1989 with broader managerial functions and responsibilities until his retirement in 1998.<\/p>\n
President Buhari noted that the deceased stamped his authority on areas like economic principles, monetary, fiscal and development economics, which he taught for many decades.<\/p>\n
\u201dTeriba hoisted Nigeria\u2019s flag proudly wherever he went and posterity would be quite kind to him,\u201d the president said. (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family, academia and friends of renowned economist, Professor Owodunni Teriba, who passed away recently at 82. In a condolence message in Abuja on Friday by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, the President lauded the can-do spirit of the departed, who studied privately for his advance level education and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":9032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[347,97],"class_list":["post-24611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abuja","tag-buhari"],"yoast_head":"\n