Few are scholastic titans in Nigeria’s political galaxy, and Senator Iyiola Omisore is without any doubt one of them. In Nigeria’s political landscape, Senator Omisore has proven himself to be a political colossus with his golden touch on the lives of the people in high and low places. Before he emerged as the then number two citizen in Osun State in 1999, Omisore had embraced success, and indeed already established a solid relationship with success, to the envy of others. Though his monumental political reverence appears to have cast a long shadow on his scholastic resplendence, this does not obviate the fact that Omisore —a Ph.D holder in Infrastructure Finance from International School of Management, Paris, France— is an unequalled pedagogic titan.
In his pursuit of knowledge that will impact the society, Ife, Osun State-born Omisore has acquired myriads of academic degrees. For some years now, this eminent scholar has established his professional presence by bridging the space between town and gown. Since the 1980s when he began his professional life in the United Kingdom with Drake and Gordham, Omisore has shown a brilliant fusion of academic and professional life. He has invested his long years of study in his work life as seen with the manner he runs his flagship company, Chrisore Engineering Ltd under which he implemented incredible projects such as: Central Bank of Nigeria projects, Union Bank of Nigeria headquarters among numerous others.
Omisore has not just shown his great love for careful study but also the need to harness the power of information to drive the society to a paradise of development. As a complete universal scholar, Omisore has also presented future-charting keynote addresses and lectures on important topics at political, business, and academic gatherings around the world.