Adetona Gabriel Balogun

Adetona Gabriel Balogun (born June 23, 1932) is a Nigerian quantity surveyor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and was first president of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors.
Adetona Balogun studied quantity surveying at the then South West Essex Technical College and School of Art (now Waltham Forest College) before completing his professional experience and training in 1967. He returned to newly independent Nigeria in the same year and took up employment first with Tom Hammond and Partners and subsequently with the Lagos Executive Development Board and the Nigerian Railway Corporation as a senior civil servant. In 1972 he started his own Lagos-based practice Balogun, Oyewunmi and Fapounda.
His most celebrated contribution was the role he played in the creation of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors. He served twice as president of the institute and was honoured with a lifetime achievement award for his services to quantity surveying. Adetona Balogun is married to Eunice Bosede and they have five children and fourteen grandchildren.

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