Bamigboye ruled Kwara from May 1967 to July 1975, after it had been divided from the old Northern Region during the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon.
Bamigboye created the Kwara State Ministry of Education, with a department to handle Scholarship/Bursary matters in 1968.
In 1971 he announced a decision to establish the Kwara State Polytechnic, which came into existence in 1972.
His younger brother is Theophilus Bamigboye, a retired military officer.
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