Chief Joseph Modupe JohnsonListenⓘ CFR, (30 March 1912 – 15 June 1987), was a Nigerian politician and Federal Cabinet Minister.

[citation needed] In these capacities, he distinguished himself by resigning as President of the Nigerian branch of the ILO, protesting the admission of South Africa as member.

He built the first and largest National Sports Stadium in Lagos, attended the victorious battle of Nigeria's Middleweight and Light Heavyweight Boxing champion of the world, Dick Tiger vs Gene Fullmer in California, and in collaboration with London-based world-renowned boxing promoter, Jack Solomons, staged the very first world boxing title fight in Africa, in Ibadan, Western Nigeria, between Tiger and Fullmer, in 1963, well before the much publicized Rumble in the Jungle fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire, in 1974.

[citation needed] In 1963 he retired from politics by declining to contest the General Elections.

Born into Lagosian and Brazilian families in Lafiaji, Lagos, he was described as tall, handsome, flamboyant, gregarious and renowned as a ladies man.