Ernest Olawunmi Adelaye [SEP] country of citizenship
Ernest Olawunmi Adelaye
Group Captain Ernest Olawunmi Adelaye was appointed military governor of Rivers State, Nigeria from July 1988 to August 1990 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
He signed the edict establishing the Rivers State Polytechnic on March 25, 1989 and performed the formal ceremony of the institution on May 19, 1990.
He retired with the rank of air vice marshal.
Wallasey, Merseyside, succeeding the former Cabinet minister Ernest Marples. She held a number of government posts, including spells as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Security from 1979–82 and at the Department of Transport from 1982–83. In 1983 she became Minister of State at Transport, being appointed Minister for Europe in 1986.
In June 2014, Chalker was awarded Honorary Citizenship of Mozambique by President Armando Guebuza for services to that country.
Post-Parliament.
Chalker was granted a life peerage