On Thursday, June 4, 2026, the ballroom at the CED Magazine Professional Man of the Year ceremony carried a familiar buzz. Names were called. Applause rose. Then the crowd leaned in when Engr. Dr. Bola J. Mudasiru, FNSE was announced.
Deputy National Chairman of the Nigerian Institution of Highway and Transportation Engineers. Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers. Global infrastructure leader. And now, CED Magazine Professional Man of the Year 2025.
The award isn’t just another plaque. CED Magazine created it to spotlight engineers who have moved the needle on service, integrity, and real impact. For Dr. Mudasiru, the recognition feels like a checkpoint in a 20-year journey that’s taken him from site offices to boardrooms, from compliance manuals to mentoring sessions with young engineers.
Walk through his CV and you see the blueprint of modern Nigerian infrastructure: high-profile projects across construction management, regulatory compliance, and strategic team leadership. But colleagues say his real signature isn’t concrete and steel. It’s how he builds people.
“Technical excellence, ethical leadership, and innovation” – that’s how the engineering community summed up his career in their tribute. Add to that a quiet obsession with safety standards and a belief that every project should leave the built environment better than it met it.
