
PRINCE AKINRUNTAN BABATUNDE ABAYOMI
Prince Abayomi Babatunde Akinruntan was born to the Royal family of Akinruntan Obateru of ugboland in Ondo State in the year 1973. He has his primary and secondary Education in Ibadan Oyo State. Beside other educational and technical qualifications obtained from home and abroad, he holds an LL.B {Hons} in Law from former Ogun State University (Now Olabisi Onabanjo University). Besides having a BL in view he is currently enrolled for a Bachelor Degree in Marketing at the Lagos State University. Prince Akinruntan is artistically inclined and this interest earned him a Diploma in Arts and Design from the Polytechnic of Ibadan. Having successfully completed the one-year mandatory NYSC service, he was given a Discharge Certificate.
Since 1992, Prince Akinruntan has been actively involved in the private sector. As an Industrial Trainee at Heinemann Educational Books Limited, Ibadan in 1992, he has been actively involved in the day-to-day operations of Obat Oil and Petroleum Limited, one of Nigeria’s major indigenous Oil Companies. Nine years after his apprenticeship as a trainee, 2002 precisely, he became the Operations Manager of Obat Oil, overseeing the operations and logistics at the company’s Head Office and Service Outlets in Ibadan. By February 2004, Prince Akinruntan rose to the post of Obat Oil and Petroleum Limited’s Director of Operations, as a result of hard work, having successfully brought the company’s operations in the oil sector to Olympian heights.
He is a Pioneer Management Officer of the Ultra modern storage facility situated in Apapa.
As a Director and one of the Shareholders of Obat Oil and Petroleum Limited including its subsidiaries and sister companies such as Eko Oil Ltd., Theo Oil Ltd, Obat Refinery and Febson Hotels Nigeria Ltd. Prince Akinruntan has vast experience in the Nigerian Oil industry. He has since not rested on his oars. He has participated in a number of training and professional courses both within and outside the country. Chiefly amongst are the Port Facility Security Officers’ (PFSO) Course and ISPS Code Compliance Training Course in United Kingdom, seminars and conferences for managers and administrators as well as executives in Nigeria. He is currently the PFSO overseeing Obat port facilities. He is a member of Universal Peace federation and Youth Federation for World Peace where he was awarded “Peace Ambassador” in 2009 also an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Management Accounts in 2009.
In 2006, Prince Abayomi Babatunde Akinruntan was appointed as the Director, Operations for Febson Hotel Nigeria Ltd, an Ultra Modern Facility in Abuja showcasing a Hospitality Industry, Shopping Mall with State -of –the- Art Gym and Obat Filling Outlets. He is a multitalented young entrepreneur with craves for systematic innovations. What enders him most to his admirer is his divested experience in hospitality and tourism
Prince Abayomi Babatunde Akinruntan has represented the company in many fores, including the supervision of the company’s expansion programme in different parts of Nigeria, involved in business negotiations and acquiring of tankers of various tonnage to enhance speedy distribution of petroleum products in and outside the country. This singular task made him to visit the following countries Dubai, Greece. He has also been fully involved in the realization of the Obat Refinery project. As a result of demand pull, he visited Tunisia {African Development Bank} and met with IFC and AFC members respectively.
Prince Abayomi Babatunde Akinruntan is happily married with kids.