Olu Falae

Chief
Olu Falae
CFR
Minister of Finance
In office
8 January 1990 – 29 August 1990
PresidentIbrahim Babangida
Preceded byChu Okongwu
Succeeded byAbubakar Alhaji
Secretary to the Government of the Federation
In office
31 January 1986 – 1 January 1990
PresidentIbrahim Babangida
Preceded byG.A. Longe
Succeeded byAliyu Mohammed
Personal details
Born
Samuel Oluyemisi Falae

(1938-09-21) 21 September 1938 (age 86)
Akure, Southern Region, British Nigeria (now Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria)
Political partySocial Democratic Party (Nigeria)
RelativesOdundun II (second cousin & third cousin)
Oba Osupa I (great-great grandfather)
Alma materUniversity of Ibadan
Yale College

Chief Samuel Oluyemisi Falae// ⓘ CFR (born 21 September 1938),[1] is a Nigerian banker, administrator and politician[2] who was secretary to the military government of Ibrahim Babangida from January 1986 to December 1990, and briefly the Finance Minister in 1990. He ran for president in Nigeria's Third and Fourth Republics but lost.

  1. ^ "Cleric charges Nigerians on Olu Falae's 70th birthday". Sunday Tribune. 2008-09-28. Retrieved 2008-10-08. [dead link]
  2. ^ "Falae Clocks Seven Decades". Independent Nigeria Online. 2008-09-20. Retrieved 2008-10-08. [dead link]