Nigeria’s First Surveyor-General Has Died

According to Track News, Daniel Omoigui, Nigeria’s first surveyor-general, has died.
His son, Sota Omoigui, announced on Friday on behalf of the family that his father died on Thursday at the age of 91.

“The family of Surveyor Daniel Aiyanyo Omoigui of the Egite family, Isi, in Uhunmwode LGA, Edo State, and the entire Egite family of the Edo Kingdom, as well as Barrister Mrs Grace Onaiwu Omoigui nee Asemota (late) and the entire Asemota family of Ogbe Quarters, Oredo LGA, Edo State,”

On November 10, 1931, Omoigui was born in Iguagban Village, Benin, Edo state.

He began school in the village at the age of three, attended several primary schools, and enrolled in Benin Baptist School in 1939, beginning in form II.

He finished high school in 1949 and began teaching at Niger College in Benin in 1950, while also studying at the Rapid Result College, now known as Distance Learning.

He was admitted to the University of Ibadan in 1953 to study mathematics and graduated in 1957.

He joined the federal surveys department in 1957 and worked all over the country. He oversaw international and interstate boundary investigations, delimitation, demarcation, and maintenance in 1969.

In 1970, he took part in the Nigeria-Cameroon boundary negotiations.

As director of federal surveys, he oversaw the establishment of the National Boundaries Commission and the Surveyors Registration Council (SURCON).

He was the federation’s surveyor-general from 1986 to 1988.