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Akinola Olateru is a Nigerian engineer. He was the commissioner of the Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria from 2017 to 2023. [1]

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Education and career

Olateru grew up in Ogbomoso, Osun State. [2] He started his career as a maintenance engineer with Pan African Airlines and the Nigerian Police Air Wing. He has worked with British Midland Airways, KLM, and Martinair. [3]

He got his M.Sc. in Air Transport Management from City University of London in 2003. [4]

In January 2017, he was appointed by former president Muhammadu Buhari as the head of the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB-Nigeria). He was reappointed in March 2021. [5] He was removed by president Bola Ahmed Tinubu in December 2023. [6]

He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Royal Aeronautical Society, and Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK. [7]

Awards

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