Biyi Afonja

Biyi Afonja
Biyi Afonja
	Portrait of Biyi Afonja
Born	Biyi Afonja; Yewa North Area of the Ogun State. Nigeria
Occupation	Professor of Statistics, University of Ibadan
Residence	Abeokuta
Nationality	Nigerian
Alma mater	University of Ibadan
Spouse	Yewande Sosanya

Biyi Afonja (born 1935) is a Nigerian academician[1] and retired professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan. He is the first Nigerian to be President of African Statistical Association.[2]

Education

He started his educational journey at All Saints' School, Araromi Orita then proceed to Government College, Ibadan for his secondary school.[3] His higher education took him to The University College, Ibadan (now University of Ibadan, Nigeria) with Bsc. degree in Mathematics, University of Aberdeen, Scotland with a Diploma in Statistics and University of Wisconsin, USA with a PhD in Statistics.

Public roles and honours

He also served in various capacity as the Head, Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Commissioner for Education in the former Western State of Nigeria Chairman, National Advisory Council on Statistics Chairman, Governing Council, Ogun State College of Education and Pro-Chancellor Ogun State University, (Now Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye)[4][5]

Publications

gollark: Presumably most of the data on the actual network links is encrypted. If you control the hardware you can read the keys out of memory or something (or the decrypted data, I suppose), but it's at least significantly harder and probably more detectable than copying cleartext traffic.

gollark: Well, yes, but people really like blindly unverifiably trusting if it's convenient.

gollark: Or you can actually offer something much nicer and better in some way, a "killer app" for decentralized stuff, but if you do that and it's not intrinsically tied to the decentralized thing the big platforms will just copy it.

gollark: Yes, users are bad and won't care unless something directly affects them.

gollark: Also, in my experience the more privacy-friendly stuff also is more lightweight due to being designed with a mindset of doing it well and not adding excessive features, versus Facebook and whoever just using whatever allows them to get better time to market and shove in 2000 different weird features ~~stolen from~~ inspired by other platforms.

References

Suleiman, Toba. "Nigeria: When Prof. Afonja Celebrates His 70th Birthday". All Africa. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
"Nigerian Statistical Association". www.nsang.org. Archived from the original on 2019-03-16. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
Afonja, Biyi (2005). In His Hands: The Autobiography of a Nigerian Village Boy. STATCO. ISBN 9789783313460.
Admin (2016-08-26). "AFONJA, Prof Biyi". Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
"Biyi Afonja (1950) Clocks 82, launches a book titled "I SMELL A RAT: A Pro-Chancellor's Adventure in University Governance" | GCI Museum". www.gcimuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-04-17.

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[1] Suleiman, Toba. "Nigeria: When Prof. Afonja Celebrates His 70th Birthday". All Africa. Retrieved 17 April 2019.

[2] "Nigerian Statistical Association". www.nsang.org. Archived from the original on 2019-03-16. Retrieved 2019-04-17.

[3] Afonja, Biyi (2005). In His Hands: The Autobiography of a Nigerian Village Boy. STATCO. ISBN 9789783313460.

[4] Admin (2016-08-26). "AFONJA, Prof Biyi". Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation. Retrieved 2019-04-17.

[5] "Biyi Afonja (1950) Clocks 82, launches a book titled "I SMELL A RAT: A Pro-Chancellor's Adventure in University Governance" | GCI Museum". www.gcimuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-04-17.