Simeon Adesoye Osinuga was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1936 and attended the Government College, Ibadan from 1948-52, followed by the newly created Nigerian College of Arts and Sciences, at Zaria (now Ahmadu Bello University). In late 1959 he travelled to the UK and on a Nigerian Federal Scholarship attended the School of Architecture at Nottingham College of Art (now part of Nottingham Trent University), where he obtained a Diploma in Architecture in 1965. In September of the same year he enrolled on the postgraduate ‘General Course’ run by the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Tropical Architecture, in London. His final thesis subject at the AA was a Hostel for University Students in Nigeria. After graduating with a Tropical Certificate in 1956, Osinuga appears to have returned to Lagos, where he is recorded as living at an address in Apapa by 1970. Details of his subsequent career are not yet known to us other than the fact that by 1977 he was employed as Deputy Chief Architect for the State of Lagos, eventually also serving as Chief Architect.

 Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1945-71. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 18th July 1966. AA Archives
• The National Archives, London, UK; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Inwards Passenger Lists; Class: Bt26; Piece: 1441; Item: 25
• Federal Republic of Nigeria Gazette, 9th July, 1970.
• Orimoloye, S.A., Biographia Nigeriana: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Nigerians, G.K. Hall, 1977
• Africa Who’s Who, Africa Journal Ltd., 1991, p1493