Adeyinka: The Computer Village engineer living his dream
Mr Adeyinka arrived in Computer Village about 20 years ago.
Dada Adeyinka’s office in Computer Village is nestled in a nondescript building buzzing with commerce. The passageways are dark, the sound of generators is deafening; people stream in relentlessly wielding electronic parts — the urgency is palpable. Here, time waits for no man.
Mr Adeyinka arrived in Computer Village about 20 years ago. A graduate of Computer Science from the Lagos State Polytechnic, he had dreams of becoming a computer guru.
“It was the passion that drove me,” he said in an interview with Ikeja Record one recent afternoon. He was seated on a backless stool in his small shop, old electronic parts lining the wall, his apprentices busy behind him.
Computer Village wasn’t always this crowded, he reminisced. “It was actually a residential area. Lots of lawyers used to live here. But then the demand for digital devices and communications gadgets ballooned.” And everything changed.
Mr Adeyinka interned with Compu…
