Ezekiel Oludayo Fakoya studied architecture at the Northern Polytechnic, in London, graduating in 1962. The following year he is recorded as an employee of the Architect’s Department of Nigeria’s Western Region’s Ministry of Works, based in Ibadan. In late 1963 the Eleti Ofe newspaper noted how Fakoya and three other Nigerian architects (Adeleke Adebiyi, Ernest Osemeka and Samuel Ajayi) had recently been dispatched to London for six months of postgraduate study at the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Tropical Studies. The newspaper notes that the students had been funded through the Nigerian / British Technical Assistance scheme. Whilst at the AA, Ezekiel chose to join the ‘General Course’ within the Tropical Department, graduating with a Diploma in February 1964 and returning to Nigeria and resuming his role with the Ministry of Works in Ibadan. Few details regarding his subsequent career are known to us, however he was still registered as a practising architect, living in Nigeria, in 1985. 

Sources 

• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 16th March, 1964. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• ‘Nigerians Study Tropical Architecture’, Eleti Ofe, Vol. XIV, No. 892, Oct.-Nov. 1963
• RIBA Kalendar 1965, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1965, p95
• Official Gazette, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Vol. 57, No. 40, 9th July, 1970, p934