Miss you soooooooo much Dad ...
R.I.P ..... ❤

Continue to Rest in Perfect Peace my Dearest Dearest Daddy......
Your children and grandchildren miss you sooooooooooo much.......
We will ALWAYS ALWAYS Love You ❤❤

Dear Tunde,
How time flies. Today is the first anniversary of your exit from our earthly world. My family and I will always miss our life long friendship. Even now that you are up there and away from us, you continue with your lucky and winning streak. You know you were always one heck of a lucky guy and see how you just escaped this crazy pandemic coronavirus. Continue to rest in peace until we all meet again.

Time flies, but memories linger on.

This time, last year, on your 74th Birthday "I love you all" were your final words to us, your classmates at King's, and recorded.

That we shall always remember.

Dear Prof. We miss you and your thoughts are always with us. Today should have been your 75th birthday but God loves you most.

We thank God for a life well spent . We would never forget your positive impact on me and my family.

Our Professional career is unequalled. We can stand tall among our peers. They call us "Prof"s replica".

I see the true situations of life and I remember your guidance on never to quit or throw in the towel in the face of challenges.

I miss you and may your gentle soul rest in perfect peace.
Dr. Akapa

12.40am 18th April 2020.... It's your Birthday today Dearest Dad....you would have turned 75 years old .......and we come together to remember your passing in 2 days time .......
Miss you soooooooooo Much Dad.
Words can't describe the pain, the void your absence left.....
I know you're in a much better place .....smiling, laughing, cracking jokes , cheering us on down here, worshipping your creator ......
Mosope , your grandson continues the 18th April Birthday celebrations .
Once again, miss you sooo much and will always always always Love you.
Continue to Rest in Peace Dad....
Your one and only daughter
Oyinkansola

I met Prof briefly in 1984. He supervised my masters thesis and during this meeting I saw class. I called him from my new country Canada, he expressed great satisfaction in my level. I tried incessantly reaching him of late and when not possible, I tried him on google to see this news.

Prof may you rest in peace.
Jesuorobo John Isaac --IBM Toronto Canada

I met Prof Fetuga,who was my husband's childhood friend,i n person of Engr Dipo Oyewole. Ever since we met till the very end,Prof remained a special character . A very objective minded person on issues,a socialilte , God fearing and highly intellectual. I am going to miss our political ,pig related discussions and visits to Ijebu ode.
Your are greatly missed,Uncle Tunde.
Continue to Rest in Glory.

Prof was a good example of a distinguished and learned gentleman. As the chairman of the society, his voice and speeches commanded respect and authority. I learnt a lot from him having served as the social secretary of the cathedral Torch Bearers. He thought me how to address members by instilling that confidence needed to speak with the elders in the society. Few days before he passed, I visited him in the hospital on his request and I was humbled with his sense of humour and bravery ensued by his revelations after a long conversation of his wishes and plans on matters of the society. I'm indeed very grateful for his lecture and enlightenment. He was a rare gem and he would be missed. May light perpetual continue to shine upon him.

To an Uncle, who the Nigerian Agric industry did not get enough of , another Power house that our Country did not fully utilise his skills, l say good bye to you. Whenever l remember the types of Wood that lay in our Forest, which  you pointed out to me , l still feel aghast at this open secret ! 
My days with the the Clan at Parry road ,l can never forget , everything seems to be moving so fast! Tons and tons of luv Tayo

Uncle Tunde, where do we start? You fought the good fight ,but the good Lord said it was time.
How can we forget those visits you made with Aunty Ronke they were always beautiful evenings.
You took life head on,no challenge was too big.
We remember you being one of the youngest professors at U.I and your exceptional knowledge in your field.
As you rest with the heavenly hosts may it be peaceful
Adieu!
The family of Late George Adebiyi and Folashade Okege

A TRIBUTE IN HONOUR OF MY MENTOR, PROF. BABATUNDE LAMBARD ADETOKUNBO FETUGA, FNSEB, FNIAS
It was on Easter Sunday 21st April, 2019, that I received the shocking news of the passing on of my mentor: University Teacher, and my three-time project supervisor, elder brother and friend, Prof. Babatunde Lambard Adetokunbo Fetuga, which sad event occurred on Saturday 20th, April 2019. The shock was real as it was unfathomable, given the fact that we had spoken on his 74th Birthday anniversary on Thursday 18th April, 2019, and he was in high spirits.
A very significant component of my career progression in life is inextricably tied to my relationship with this great mentor, as far back as the 1975/76 session when I was assigned to him as my final year undergraduate student’s project supervisor in the Department of Animal Science, University of Ibadan. This first close contact and exposure to research, under his tutelage laid the foundation of, and opened the door to my interest in a career in academics. He was at hand to encourage me to pursue postgraduate studies after my NYSC.
Indeed Prof. Fetuga’s sterling qualities as a good and effective teacher, and an outstanding researcher, endeared him to many, who saw him as a role model, and who are today holding their own in their academic endeavours in Agriculture, etc. Prof. Babatunde Fetuga sustained a very close and good working relationship with the students he supervised and took interest in their career progress. To the glory of God, six of his Post-Graduate students became Vice-Chancellors in Nigeria and Cameroon, as well as several Deputy Vice-Chancellors and Heads of Institutions. As Dean of Post-Graduate School, University of Ibadan, the landscape of Postgraduate education was turned around through the mounting of many professional disciplines and the development of viable Academic linkages with high ranking universities in the USA and Europe.
After his retirement from the University of Ibadan, Prof. Fetuga’s stint with Glaxo Nigeria Plc produced outstanding results in his capacity as the Business Development Director. He thereafter vigorously and successfully pursued his endeavours as a private businessman and Agro-industrial Consultant, undertaking consultancy services for the Federal and State Governments.
Prof. Babatunde Fetuga commanded tremendous respect from his peers and friends in many areas of human endeavor: in the Pure and Applied Sciences, Business, Social Sciences, Politics and governance. He was very articulate and well informed on national issues with a consistent bent on the narrative for the implementation of policies to better the lot of the common man. He was a patriot.
In the last one year and more, Late Prof. Fetuga had been actively sharing daily scriptural verses and Christian hymns through his Whatsapp platform, with friends and dear ones. I can say how much I benefitted from these messages and songs. He had this to say, “This is one way I can show my gratitude to God for what He has done for me, by sharing His word with others.”
Many people have been touched and saddened by his early exit considering how much more he could have offered the society. Though deeply pained by his death, I remain personally thankful to God that our paths crossed 44 years ago. Prof. Babatunde Lambard Adetokunbo Fetuga remains my Academic Mentor – in – Chief, elder brother and destiny helper.
On that fateful Easter Sunday, after I received the news of his death, I drove to the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Uyo where on April 25th, 2008 he commissioned one of the new buildings during the Convocation Ceremony. I looked at the plaque he laid on the wall with his name fully engraved. I could not hold back the tears. He had laid many plaques in the lives of the people he touched, beginning from his lovely children (and their families) to his students and many more. That is where the consolation comes in – the legacies he has left behind and the need for us to uphold those qualities.
To Oyinkansola, Babajide and Oluwagbemiga, remain strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Let us remember that “God shall wipe away all tears from their (our) eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” (Rev. 21:4).
May God grant us all the fortitude to bear this painful loss, and may the soul of our departed father, friend and confidant rest in the bosom of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen. Adieu!
Prof. Akaneren I. Essien, FNSAP`
Former Vice-Chancellor
University of Uyo
Akwa Ibom State

Egbon mi as fondly called you.I never knew we were saying good-bye on that Sunday , the news of your death was a shock to me but i take solace in God who gave and take away . You were a pride of Fetugas' Clan , you will for ever be missed by all of us . A fine gentle man wtih a distinct voice .
Omo olowo joye meji po
O je jagunrewe
O tun je oba
Omo apani keke
Omo elewu wo yi wo yi
Ikanigbo lomokunrin wa
Wonderful cousin
Sun re o.

My Dad Taiwo Okusanya and my Uncle Tunde Fetuga first met on Lagos Island as teenagers. Uncle Tunde lived elsewhere but had come to pass the holidays in ‘Eko’ whilst my father’s family lived at Ita-Faji. Their friendship was instantaneous and continued throughout secondary school even though they attended different schools, my Dad at MBHS and my Uncle at KC. They bonded over their love of books and my Dad always marvelled at how brilliant Uncle Tunde was.
After their first degrees, my Uncle and my Dad both made a beeline for the University of Ibadan – one into Academia and the other into Administration, complementing each other perfectly. They married beautiful young ladies both named Aderonke and had 3 children each having agreed that you could only fit 3 children comfortably into the back of a VW Beetle. We, the children, became ‘cousins’ and when my mum travelled we went straight to the Fetugas and vice versa – they were both as strict so Oyinkan and I used to say there was no point in going anywhere else to be spoilt.
Uncle Tunde’s life work is the stuff of legends; his pioneering work using local products for baby food, his achievements in the field of Nutritional Biochemistry and Animal Nutrition which earned him his Professorship at the tender age of 32 – the youngest ever!
At home, to us, my Uncle was the coolest… he was laid back and had a great belly laugh that reverberated and made others happy. Yes, he and Dad also shared a love for red wine and enjoyed socialising. I fondly remember the adults talking and laughing well into the wee hours at both homes… we loved it cos we got to stay up late.
When I met Bolanle (my husband), chez Fetuga was one of the first places I took him too. He had to be vetted and lucky for him, he passed with flying colours. It helped that he already knew my Uncle from when the Fetugas lived almost next door on Adenuga Street, and the clincher was the massive respect Bolanle had for my Uncle Tunde – as a gentleman and a scholar.
My Uncle Tunde was the Chairman at our wedding, he was my choice and no one tried to dissuade me. He was simply amazing and I looked up to him; my cousins have all turned out fantastic and our lives continue to be interwoven.
Thanks for my lovely childhood Prof; I pray that you find light, peace and happiness with Jesus, Amen.
Joke Adenuga

TRIBUTE FROM PROFESSOR ADEBISI. M BALOGUN
I have come to celebrate my dear academic mentor, Professor Lambard Babatunde Fetuga (Ph.D, FNSEB, FNIAS), a distinguished scholar, a great motivator and a man of sartorial excellence.
Prof Babatunde Fetuga traversed this world like a colossus between 18th April, 1945 and 20th April, 2019 when he finally submitted to the will of God. He graduated at the University of Ibadan with a First Class degree in Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition in 1969. He took his Ph.D with distinction and commendation in the same field in 1972. In October 1977, he was promoted Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at the age of 32.
A Full-Bright Scholar and a visiting Professor at the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Professor Fetuga had supervised twenty four (24) Ph.D students and various Master’s Degree Projects. He was Dean, Post Graduate School at the University of Ibadan.
His foray into the Private sector offered him a unique opportunity of providing innovative solution to products development in Glaxo Nigeria Limited, a foremost industry in the production of baby foods. He eventually became the Business Development Director of the Company in 1990. By time he was retiring from Glaxo in 1993, he had successfully pushed into the Nigerian market Babeena – a milk cereal product for infants. 
Prof., you provided the shoulder upon which most of us who passed through your academic mentorship stood up in life. For me, I was attracted to you by your youthfulness (a professor at 32), your brilliance and your sartorial spirit of academic excellence. I then (as a final year student of Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition) approached you to be my supervisor. You asked me the following questions. Did you attend King’s College? I said no but that I attended Ilesa Grammar School, one of the best in the country at that time. The next question was: How did you know me and why did I want you to be my supervisor? I then explained that Professor V.A Oyenuga (of blessed memory) described your brilliance and academic excellence in one of his lectures to us as a 200Level student and that he was always talking about you with absolute pride. I also said I wanted you to be my academic mentor. After that encounter, you affirmatively agreed to supervise me. You were there to provide quality and sustainable academic leadership and mentorship throughout my period of studies at B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D levels at the University of Ibadan.
You impacted the spirit of diligence in research and commitment to quality data collection and rigorous analysis on me and many of us that passed through you as undergraduate and postgraduate students.
You were kind, fair-minded, humane and firm in your dealings with me as my supervisor and mentor. I remembered how you drove me round the campus on the day I came to your office and discussed with you that I wanted to terminate my postgraduate programme after my M.Sc for lack of fund. You talked to me, provided advice based on your own experience and you provided a sustainable support for the completion of my Doctoral programme.
You introduced me to Dr. Lanre Talabi for a post-doctoral fellowship in Fish Nutrition and Utilization. That singular Act change the course of my academic history for good and today I am a Professor of Fish Nutrition. You taught me (and most that passed through you as academic mentees) the act of balancing social life with productive academic life.
Professor Babatunde Lambard Fetuga, you were an epitome of scholarship. Indeed you were a great Scholar and motivator. By act of providence you did not become a Vice-Chancellor of a University, but you produce 4 Vice-Chancellors, 1 Provost, I Pro-Chancellor (within the Nigerian University System) and 2 Vice-Chancellors at the international level. Many Professors in Universities here and abroad are products of your diligent academic mentorship.
Prof. It is difficult for me to refer to you in the past, but we must surrender to the will of God. He gives and He takes.
I said earlier on that we have come to celebrate Prof and not to mourn him as it is written in Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die”
“He has made everything beautiful in its own time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to the end.”
Our Prof, Mentor, we shall continue to miss your good work but we are left with the consolation that you have gone to rest in the bosom of your creator. Good night Prof. Adieu-until we shall meet to part no more.
Professor Adebisi M. Balogun
Professor of Fish Nutrition and
Former Vice-Chancellor FUTA.

" Ikanigbo l'omo okunrin wa, awon obinrin ibe bi Oba ibo mi lori".
I knew Prof was my relative even before i met with him. I spent time in my youth sitting with elders and learning about my heritage. My mother an Ijebu woman from Ikanigbo in Ijebu Ode on her paternal side and a Princess from The Olutufese clan of Ijebu Ife on her maternal side. Professor Fetuga shares the same bloodline with me on both sides. Providence brought us close through his beloved daughter Oyinkansola and i was enamoured and intrigued by this extremely brilliant gentleman who is full of life, dashing, sharp as a razor, humourous and a super story teller.
Death came calling too early and robbed me of the opportunity to know you better and enjoy scintillating stories of your days as a "Rocker" and also learn from your deep knowledge of our common heritage.
I thank God for the opportunity to know you and the love and affection you expressed to me in such a short time. I will surely miss you. I pray that your soul will find eternal rest with your maker.
Rest in peace Professor Babatunde Fetuga omo Ikanigbo ni Ijebu Ode, Sun re o!

Professor Babatunde Lambard Adetokunbo Fetuga wrote the Fetuga name in gold. At my inaugural lecture on March 28 2019 this piece was written and read to acknowledge him. Never did I know I was writing a tribute for him. The following month, precisely April 2019 he passed on. May his humble soul rest in perfect peace.
Professor Eniola Oluwatoyin Fetuga Olorunsanya