About the Author
r. C. Osamaro Ibie was born in the defunct Benin Empire's capital City of Benin
in Mid- Western Nigeria on the 29th of September, 1934 to Chief and Mrs. Th
ompson Ibie Odin.He hailed from a Christian family.When his naming ceremony
was, however being performed eight days after his birth, experts in the esoteric analysis of
newly born infants, with special reference to the late Chief Obalola Adedayo, who confirmed to
journalists when Ifism: The Complete Works of Orunmila Vol. One was being launched in
1987, predicted that God created the infant as a servant to Orunmila, God's own servant and
divinity of wisdom, and that the world was going to know about Orunmila and the distorted,
falsified and fabricated truth about the true nature of the one and only good God through the
infant whose future problems and prospects were being analyzed. In fact, Chief Obalola
confessed that he himself wondered why Orunmila left the whole of Yorubaland, which was his
base, to come to Benin, which he first visited but could not reside in, to pick his viva voce.
According to the author's father the augury was totally ignored as farfetched because the
man was talking to a Christian family who could not imagine any connection with Orunmila.
The author went through his primary and secondary education in Benin City, during which
he generally operated as a man-server in the Catholic Church. In 1947, he joined some of
his friends to enlist in the priesthood of the Catholic Church, but his father intervened with the
Bishop to insist that his son was not cut out for the Christian priesthood, and the Bishop
deferred to the wish of his father by releasing him.
Upon the completion of his primary and secondary education, the author was employed in
the Nigerian Federal Public Service where he rose from the post of a Clerical Officer to the lofty
position of an Executive Officer in 1959. At the same time, he won a Federal Government
Scholarship to read Economics in London. He went to London in 1960 and obtained a Second
Class Honor Degree in both Strathclyde, Glasgow and the University of London.
He returned to the Nigerian Federal Public Service where he was appointed as an
Assistant Secretary, becoming Deputy Permanent Secretary in 1973 and Permanent Secretary
in 1975.
He was appointed as a member of the Nigerian Economic and Finance Committee on the
same year, which was charged with the management of the Nigerian economy. At the same
time, he was appointed as a member of the Nigerian Government delegation to the
intergovernmental consultative conference between the American and Nigerian governments, on
which he served between 1976 and 1980.
Between 1980 when he retired voluntarily from the Nigerian Federal Public Service, and
1989, he operated exgratiation as an economic analyst; writing many newspaper articles on the
categorical and hypothetical imperatives of economic policy and management. He also ad-
dressed several public and private sector institutions on the directions of economic
policy, including the Nigerian Institute of Bankers, the Manufacturers Association of
Nigeria, Nigerian Institute of Strategic Studies, several tertiary educational
institutions, etc.
From 1985 and to the present, he has been serving as a member of the
governing
Council of the Federal Government owned University of Benin, in Edo State. Since his
retirement from the Civil Service in 1980, he has actively engaged in business in
the private sector. He was in 1992 awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Institute
of Administrative Management of Nigeria (FIAMN - Hon.) and recognized as a
Certified and Distinguished Administrator (CDA).
Dedicated
to Roland
Francis
The Late Babalawo Roland Francis
Orunmila's Ambassador and Plenipotentiary
traordinaire
Ex
in the Western Hemisphere
