Chris Ogunbanjo

Chief Christopher Oladipo Ogunbanjo (14 December 1923 – 7 October 2023) was a Nigerian corporate lawyer and philanthropist from Ogun State.

[1] In the late 1960s, he was among the group of businessmen who supported local equity participation in foreign firms operating in Nigeria.

He began work in 1942 as a junior clerk in the Judicial Dept in Enugu and was subsequently transferred to Port Harcourt.

His wife was editor of AMBER, a women's lifestyle magazine established in the 1960s but later acquired by Daily Times.

[5] His son Abimbola Ogunbanjo died aged 61, four months later on 9 February 2024, following a helicopter crash near Nipton, California.