The real identity of the owner of Dowen College has been Unravelled. A report by CKN News has confirmed that Dr Olimide Phillips is the proprietor of the embattled Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos where a 12-year old pupil lost his life in controversial circumstances recently.
Accirding to the report, Dr Olumide Phillips is the chairman, Board of Governors. Dowen College, Lagos.
He was born on July 28, 1945. He attended Methodist Boys’ High School, Lagos (1959-1963). He studied for his higher school certificate, Physics, Chemistry, and Pure and Applied Mathematics which he passed brilliantly at Igbobi College Lagos.
Olumide started his Engineering career as an apprentice with BP Oil Nigeria for 20 months before proceeding to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in September 1967 to study Mechanical Engineering.
Dr Phillips was a Mobil Scholar at the Ahmadu Bello University where he graduated with a B.Sc Hons in 1970 in Mechanical Engineering.
Dr Phillips joined Dunlop Nigeria Ikeja, where he served for six months before joining Gulf Oil Nigeria as a Petroleum Engineer in January 1971. At Gulf Oil, Olumide’s was exposed to all areas of Petroleum Engineering practices including Reservoir Engineering, Production Engineering, Drilling and Well Sites Engineering and Geological and Geophysical Subsurface Studies.
In January 1973, he enrolled at Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A for his Post Graduate Studies in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. He obtained his Masters Degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering in August 1974. He was the first recipient of a Dual title Ph.D in both Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering and Operations Research in May 1976.
His areas of study included Reservoir Modeling and Simulation, Geological Modeling, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Thermal Recovery, Complex Linear Flow Models, 3 dimensional 3- phase flow in subsurface porous media and in pipes, Petroleum Compositional Simulation, Queuing Models, Optimization techniques, linear and complex flow models and Mathematical Programming.
Dr Olumide Phillips worked as both research and teaching assistant during his post graduate programme and was a consultant on many advanced projects.
He is the father of Lami, a popular Nigerian female artiste. (CKN News)
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