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Ibukun Odusote

Senior Nigerian civil servant in IT and then agriculture

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ22234308 ↗
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Ibukun Odusote is a Nigerian civil servant in IT and administration. She was the first administrative contact person for the .ng top level Nigerian domain name. She has served as the Permanent Secretary for the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and for the Political Affairs Department in the Office of the Secretary to the Federal Government.

Early life and education

Odusote was born in Ikenne-Remo in Ogun State in Nigeria. She was educated at St. Teresa's College, Oke-Ado Ibadan in Oyo State. After obtaining her school certificate, she attended Obafemi Awolowo University. She graduated in computer science and economics.

Later at Lagos University, she earned an MBA and an MSc. From 1995 to 1998, she was the director of the Centre for Information Technology and Management at Yaba College of Technology.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ibukun Odusote” as senior Nigerian civil servant in IT and then agriculture. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ibukun, Odusote and Senior can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as senior Nigerian civil servant in IT and then agriculture. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22234308. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1995 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ibukun Odusote” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.