Bode olowoporoku biography of michael

The Senate Wednesday mourned the demise of Senator Bode Olowoporoku  by holding a minute silence in honour of the deceased who died at his residence on March 24, 2021, after a brief illness at the age of 76. 

This followed a point of order raised on his demise by Senate Biodun Olujimi (PDP, Ekiti South).

Coming under Order 43 of the Senate Standing Rules, Olujimi noted that Senator Olowoporoku was born in llawe-Ekiti, Ekiti state in 1945 to the family of Mr Josiah Olowoporoku and Mrs Otutu Jolade of lrorin quarters. 

Olowoporoku attended the then University of lfe for his first degree in Economics and won a scholarship by Ford Foundation to undertake a postgraduate study at University of Manchester where he bagged his Masters’ degree in Economics in 1972.

He later got his doctorate degree in Development Economics at the University in 1975. 

Be began his illustrious academic career as a lecturer at the University of lfe, where he built a reputation o