OSUN RUG PIONEER MEMBERS
Timothy A. OGUNLEYE
Coordinator and Convener
Timothy, a statistician by training, is a product of the prestigious University of Ilorin, Nigeria, specializing in Quantitative Modelling, Econometrics, Psychometrics and Morphometrics with much interest in Biostatistics, Designs of Experiment, and Applied Statistics. He is well-grounded in Statistics and Mathematics. Timothy is an R language expert with a sound knowledge of SQL and Python programming languages.
He was, however, trained by the Department of Computing of Macquarie University, the City of Sydney, Australia, where he has been officially certified as R and Python Programmer in the field of Data Science. In the years back, he started his higher educational pursuits from the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Nigeria, where he efficiently earned both National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) certificates in Statistics.
In addition, he is also the Secretary-General, International Association for Statistical Computing, African Members Group (IASC-AMG). Undoubtedly, He has at least 15 years of series of rich experiences that cut across both industries and academia. He has published quite a number of academic papers both locally and internationally. He is a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) expert and a tutor per excellence!.
Timothy is the coordinator, Osun R Users Group (OSUN RUG), Nigeria and co-founder, Tim-R Programming Consult, Nigeria – both are non-profit, non-governmental organizations. He learns very fast and assimilates quickly. Presently, he is a lecturer at the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences, College of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET), Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria. He could be reached through any of his email addresses:
Prof. Adebowale Olusola ADEJUMO
Academic Mentor
Prof. A.O. ADEJUMO, a seasoned administrator and academician, hails from Igboora in Oyo State of Nigeria. He is a Professor of Statistics and former Head of Department of Statistics, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He holds both Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and Master of Science (M.Sc.) degrees in Statistics from the better by far University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Statistics from Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. His areas of specialization are Statistical Modelling, Biostatistics, Time Series and Categorical Data Analysis. He has over 70 publications in academic journals both locally and internationally and, has supervised over thirty master and six PhD students in total.
He has served as technical editor and reviewer to so many journal outlets. He has attended many conferences both locally and internationally and even presented some papers. He is a member of some notable academic associations like Nigerian Statistical Association (NSA), Science Association of Nigeria, International Biometric Society (IBS), European Centre for Research Training and Development, UK, Nigerian Association of Mathematical Physics (NAMP), to mention but a few. He could be reached through aodejumo@unilorin.edu.ng. He has served in various capacities to so many non-governmental organizations and academic institutes. He is very passionate and highly accommodating. His profile could be checked here:
l https://ng.linkedin.com/in/adebowale-adejumo-78a635127
l https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adebowale_Olusola_Adejumo
l https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3127-1685 ;
l https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/adebowale-adejumo//#profile-publications.
Prof. Gafar Matanmi OYEYEMI
Academic Mentor
G.M. Oyeyemi is a Professor of Statistics, Physical Science Faculty, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He had his higher education at University of Ilorin, where he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Statistics in 1998 with second Class Upper Division.His passion for teaching and intellectual enquiries propelled him to further his education at the same University and had his Master’s and later Ph.D
degrees in Statistics in 2003 and 2009 respectively. He has successfullysupervised numerous B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Phil. and Ph.D. students and had many scholarly presentations and publications spanning local, national and international journal outlets. Prof. Oyeyemi specializes in Data Science, Multivariate Analysis and its Applications. Prof. Oyeyemi has held several posts and served in various committees at Department, Faculty and University levels. He is currently the Head, Department of Statistics. Prof Oyeyemi is a member of many Academic Societies such as Nigerian Statistical Association (NSA), Science Association of Nigeria (SAN), International Biometrics Society (IBS) and International Association of Statistical Computing (IASC) among others
Prof. Timothy Olabisi OLATAYO
Academic Mentor
Timothy O. OLATAYO is a Professor of Statistics specializing in time series econometrics. He holds a Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Ibadan Training Centre, Ibadan, Nigeria in the year 1998. In the year 1995, he had his first degree from the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria in Statistics Department. He later proceeded to University of Ibadan, Nigeria to earn second and third degrees (Statistics) in the years 2000 and 2010 respectively. Asides these, he also holds Masters in Information Technology from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria in the year 2016. Currently, he’s a Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. He is a fellow member of Royal Statistical Society (FRSS), London. Prof. Olatayo has more than 21 years of research and teaching experiences at the university level. He has graduated quite a number of students in all levels of degree including PhD, Masters, and B.Sc.
In short, he was once an acting head of department of Mathematical Sciences between 2016 and 2018. He is a member of some notable academic associations like Nigerian Statistical Association (NSA), Mathematical Association of Nigeria (MAN), American Association of Nigeria (AMA), International Biometric Society (IBS), Royal Statistical Society (RSS), Nigerian
Association of Mathematical Physics (NAMP), Professional Statistician Society of Nigeria (PSSN), Nigerian Mathematical Association (NMA), to mention but a few. He has served as technical editor and reviewer to so many journal outlets. Has has written a notable number of books and book chapters including journal articles. He has attended many conferences both locally and internationally and even presented some papers. His area of research has contributed greatly to academia. He could be reached through: bisi.olatayo@oouagoiwoye.edu.ng
Prof. Dawud Adebayo. AGUNBIADE, PhD
Academic Mentor
Adebayo Agunbiade currently works at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. Agunbiade does research in Computational Statistics, Simultaneous Equation Modelling and Econometric Methods. The current project is on ‘Violation of Basic Assumptions of MLR – Multicollinearity and Heteroscedasticity’ & ‘Using INGARCH Process to Model Cases of COVID-19’. He has passion for academic business and has produced over 5 Doctoral graduates. Prof. Bayo Agunbiade is a Statistician and Data Analysis specialist. He parades two M. Sc degrees in Statistics and Information Science as well as a Ph.D.in Statistics from the University of Ibadan. His experience was obtained from the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) Ibadan; Executive Finance and Investments Ltd. (EFIL), Ibadan and Rasmed groups, Ibadan. He has put in some years of rigorous teaching and research at the university levels. He has many articles in reputable journals and co-authored some published books. He has attended so many conferences and workshops both locally and abroad to update his knowledge in which he has presented some of his works. He was responsible for organizing seminars, giving lectures at many functions and coordinating projects within and outside the university levels. He has participated in the data collection, analysis and IEC project on women empowerment of a frontline NGO based in Ibadan, Nigeria. He has demonstrable skills in coordination, data analysis, teaching & research as well as people management. He is a Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria and his research activities are mainly in Statistical Modeling/Inference, Probability Theory, Computational Statistics, Econometric Methods, Regression Analysis and Stochastic Process. He is a member of the Nigeria Statistical Association (NSA), American Statistical Association (ASA), and the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Uche Victor NKUDU
TEAM MEMBER
Uche Victor NKUDU, a data scientist per excellence, loves connecting with people in a learning context and mentoring students and enjoys team teaching, he worked on designing mathematical tasks that nurture students’ problem solving and mathematical reasoning capacities. He is a practising Data Scientist, financial engineer, mathematician and a statistician and to crown it all, a lover of education. He is a certified R programmer. He has over 18 years of practicing mathematics from simple to complex levels. He received an HND in Statistics from Yaba College of Technology and B.Sc. (Ed.) in Mathematics and M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics from University of Lagos, and M.Sc. degree in Financial Engineering from World Quant University, USA. He handles the following set of software tools: R syntax, SPSS, AMOS, EVIEW, MINITAB, QSB+, TORA, Python, STATA, SAS, SHAZAM, OXMETRIC, MATLAB, SAGE, MATHEMATICA, SQL, Power Bi, and TABLEAU. He is very versatile in programming. Currently, Victor is the Executive Director of Tim-R Programming Consult, Nigeria.
Dr Toluwase Janet AKINGBADE
TEAM MEMBER
Toluwalase is a lecturer in Kogi State University, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria. She obtained a Ph.D degree in Statistics from University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. She holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. (Hons) degrees both in Statistics from University of Ilorin, Nigeria. She was awarded as the best graduating Statistics student in her first degree. Her Ph.D. research work was primarily focused on developing efficient estimators for five different real-life situations in survey. Her research interests are in areas of Sample Survey, Demography, Quality Control, Biostatistics and Data Sciences. Toluwalase has over nine years academic work experience as a lecturer and researcher. She has published academic research papers in different reputable journals and conferences. She has professional certificate in Database and SQL for Data Sciences, Machine Learning and Data Visualization with Python and R. She is an active member of Nigerian Statistical Association (NSA-CISON) and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP). She has actively participated as IT team in a virtual conference organized by some associations in Nigeria.
Yusuf Akintunde Azeez
TEAM MEMBER
Mr Yusuf is an experienced statistician with over twelve years of experience in analyzing and interpreting complex data. He is a first class product of Applied Mathematics from Bells University of Technology, Ota, Nigeria. He holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Statistics obtained from University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria. However, he is a real-practical oriented person who has passed through Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Nigeria for both National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) certification in Statistics. Mr Yusuf also possesses a Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Statistics from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He is an associate member of the Institute for Operation Research of Nigeria. Also, he is a member of Nigerian Statistical Association.
He is currently an active staff of NAFDAC, Nigeria. He has won several awards including 2021 Best Graduating Student of Physical Science Faculty, Bells University of Technology, Ota, Nigeria; most outstanding staff in PRS Department, NAFDAC 2013 Staff Merit Award, and so on. He has served as organizing committee member for some organizations within the country.
Kazeem Adeniyi ALAMU
TEAM MEMBER
Alamu is a Principal Planning Officer at the Ministry of Economic Planning, Budget and Development, Osun State. He is an Educationist, a Mathematician and a Statistician. He bagged Higher Diploma in Statistics from The Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State with Upper Credit Division in 2000 and furthered his study at the Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun State between 2012-2015 where he obtained a Second-Class Upper Degree in Mathematics. Here, he was among the best students for the department.
He proceeded to the great Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State for his Master of Science Degree in Statistics. Alamu is an experienced data analyst with a vast knowledge in several computer packages and statistical software such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, LateX, Oracle Hyperion, SPSS, jMULTI, STATA, R-Dialect, and EVIEWS.Above all, Alamu is a seasoned Planner. He is leading expert in preparation of High-level development documents : National Development Plan, State Development Plan and Local Development Plan, Medium Term Sector Strategy (MTSS), Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), etc. He has attended professional capacity building trainings within and outside Nigeria.
He, however, was privileged to have travelled out of the country twice, precisely, Dakar, Senegal, on Strategic Planning and Results-Based Budgeting and Gender-Responsive Economic Policy Management. Currently, Alamu is a leading Data Expert in Osun State and a consultant on preparation of High-Level Documents. He has also co-led the hosting online conference held in Dakar, Senegal through Zoom.
Joseph Olawale BAMIDELE
TEAM MEMBER
Joseph Olawale Bamidele as a BTech graduate majors in Mathematics and its applications in the field of Software Development, Web Design and Game Systems. He has worked on novel projects for qodesquare as programming director and pursues causes related to education using software technologies. As a Web Applications Developer with grounded experience in JavaScript, MySQL and other Backend Technologies, he is passionate about mentoring and teaching others, enabling them with creative capacity to be inventors and creators. He loves reading, meeting people of like minds, tweaking and tinkering, and building useful stuffs.
Obafemi Keshinro
TEAM MEMBER
Mr. Obafemi Keshinro is a PAR and Head, Academic Process Planning and Statistics, Academic Planning Unit, University of Lagos, Nigeria. He had Higher National Diploma (HND) certification in Statistics from the Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Nigeria. He possesses Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) and Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Statistics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is also holding Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Economics from the Lagos State University, Nigeria. Further to these, he is still holding Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Economics and Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Actuarial Science from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He is the founder of Chapter4.com.ng and FlexismartSolutions.org. He is the coordinator of Applied Data Science Community Learning and also a faculty advisor, ASA Nigeria Student Chapter.
Eleko Elizabeth
TEAM MEMBER
Elizabeth is a trained professional statistician. She works as a senior statistician with the national open university of Nigeria. She holds Master of Science (M.Sc.)
degree in Statistics from the University of Lagos, Nigeria; Postgraduate
Diploma in Education and Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree from the National
Open University, Nigeria; Higher National Diploma (HND) in Statistics from the
Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. Elizabeth has worked as Quality
Control Officer at Handling Cocoa Producing Company, Akure, Nigeria; Financial
Planner at Cornerstone Insurance Company, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. A member of
several professional bodies like Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM);
Nigerian Statistical Association (NSA), to mention but a few. She is a
certified R language expert. She equally has in-depth knowledge of Excel and SPSS for data analytical science. She is very good in planning events both physical and online via YouTube and zoom.
Dr Olumide ADESINA
TEAM MEMBER
Olumide holds B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Mathematics from University of Ilorin, Nigeria; MBA in Financial Management from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria; M.Sc. in Statistics from University of Lagos, Nigeria; and Ph.D. Statistics from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. He is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria. His area of specialization is Mathematical Statistics as well as computational Statistics. He has published over 40 scholarly articles in reputable outlets. His publications in Elsevier journals are sizable equally published data sets in Elsevier Mendeley. He has reviewed about 160 journal articles. Dr. Olumide Adesina is proficient in software such as R and Python and has conducted several pieces of training in the areas of Data Science and Business Analytics for Bankers, Actuaries, operation managers, and policymakers in various organizations. He is a professional member of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS), and Secretary, Nigerian Statistical Association (NSA), Ogun State chapter. He has served as IT expert while hosting online webinars and virtual conference for some organizations.
Dr (Mrs) Ifeyinwa DANIEL
TEAM MEMBER
Dr. (Mrs.) Ifeyinwa Daniel is a Mathematician, a Functional and Data Analyst, with so many years of teaching and research in Mathematics. She has worked for various schools, universities, colleges and research institution. She got her B.Sc. from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN); M.Sc. and PhD from University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) respectively. Currently, she is a university lecturer in Nigeria.
Mubasiru Asafe LAMIDI
TEAM MEMBER
Mr. Lamidi is holds Bachelor and master’s degrees in Statistics from University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He worked briefly with department of Statistics, Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Nigeria between 2002 and 2005 before proceeded to Universiteit Hasselt, Diepenbeek Belgium where he further obtained MSc degrees in Applied Statistics and Biostatistics. Mr. Lamidi has about 20 years’ working experience with some publications. He is also experienced in data management, database administration and Statistical methodologies such as General and Generalized linear and linear mixed models, ANOVA, ANCOVA, survival analysis, non-linear models, design and analysis of clinical trial data and Bayesian modeling techniques. He is an expert in SAS®, R®, STATA® and SPSS® software for Statistical analyses, Python, and Microsoft SQL for data management. Mr. Lamidi is currently working with the University of Calgary, Alberta in Canada. He is open to collaborative works with colleagues and corporate organizations.
Monday O. ADENOMON (PhD)
TEAM MEMBER
Monday Adenomon is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria (since 2019). He has PhD (Statistics) in 2016 from the better by far University of Ilorin, Nigeria; M.Sc. (Statistics) in 2010; B.Sc. (Statistics) in 2021; PGD in Statistics in 2008 and HND in Statistics in 2004. His research areas include Econometrics; Time series Analysis; Financial time series analysis; Spatial Econometrics and Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis; communication in statistics.
He is an elected ISI Short Course and Outreach Officer (2021-2023); Fellow, Royal statistical Society, UK; Fellow, African Scientific Institute; International committee member, IASC-LARS School of Computational Statistics and Data Science (September, 2021); Chair of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) African Members Group (2021 till date); Team Lead, Ambitious Africa Nigeria team (2020-2021); Lead-Organizer of the Northern Nigeria LISA 2020 Symposium (2020); Lead-Organizer, IASC physical symposium in Nigeria (2019 and 2021); LISA Scholar (2019); Member, Committee of Sport Statistics Research Group of International Statistical Institutes (ISI) (2019 till date); Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society (2019 till Date); Coordinator, NSUK-LISA Stat Lab (2018 till Date); Founder, Foundation of Laboratory for Econometrics & Applied Statistics of Nigeria (aka Found-LEAS-in-Nigeria) (2018 till Date); Mentor, LISA 2020 Networks (2018 till date). He has so many grants which include: Consultant and Partner to eBASE on “We attain project” (2020); Statistical building Consultant to Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO, 2020 and 2021); R Users Group (RUGS) grant for statistical capacity building (2021); TETFUND Institutional based research (2015); TETFUND Manuscript publication grant (2017); TETFUND Institutional based research (co-investigator, 2018); TETFUND International conference travel grant (2019); TETFUND Institutional based research grant (2019); ISI statistical capacity grant (2020).
He could be reached through: adenomonmo@nsuk.edu.ng . He could also be found in:
l Scopus with the following ID: scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorld=57215507440 ;
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l Google citation: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fqNq8EcAAAAJ&hl=en
l Research gate citation: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Monday_Adenomon
l Open Research Contributors ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9523-8032
Adetilewa Elizabeth FAKOREDE
TEAM MEMBER
Fakorede Adetilewa Elizabeth (Nee Adelusi) is a statistician. She hails from Ikeji-Ile in Oriade Local Government Area Osun State, Nigeria. She started her higher educational pursuits from Osun State College of Technology (OSCOTECH), Esa-Oke, Osun State, Nigeria, where she efficiently obtained both Ordinary National Diploma (OND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) certificates in Statistics with the grades of upper credit in each respectively.
In addition, she furthered her studies by attending Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete-Ilorin, Nigeria with a view to obtaining her first degree (B.Sc. – Hons.) in Statistics. She has much interest in Operational Research, Experimental Design, Sampling Techniques, and Statistical Computing. She is a lover of R-Language, and she can handle R up to intermediate stage. She is very good in hospitality, also she loves reading, travelling, and meeting people.
She could be reached through any of her email addresses: