Mayen Adetiba

Mayen Adetiba (born 1954) is a Nigerian actress and a civil engineer.

Early life and education Adetiba was born in 1954 in Nigeria. She initially wanted to be an accountant, but she then got interested in journalism.

She went to the US for her university education where she had to work as her parents could not send her money because of export restrictions. She was briefly at New York University before she transferred to Columbia University studying electrical engineering. She was told that civil engineering may be more appreciated in Africa so she decided to switch disciplines. She went on to take her master's degree at Cornell University.

Acting career She worked on The Bar Beach Show and was Lakunle Ojo's wife in the Village Headmaster. She was in Kongi's Harvest which went out in 1980.

Engineering career Adetiba is a trained Civil Engineer. She was elected President of the Association of Consulting Engineers of Nigeria and was the vice-president of the Nigerian Society of Engineers on three occasions. She was the first woman to be elected to the executive committee of the Nigerian Society of Engineers. Her career included working on the African Union Southern Africa Regional Office which is in Malawi and on the huge Summerhill Baptist Church in Lagos. She worked on the latter pro bono.