Nigeria’s First Professor Of Medicine Is Dead (PHOTO)

Nigeria’s First Professor Of Medicine Is Dead (PHOTO)

Theophilus Oladipo Ogunlesi, the first Nigerian Professor of Medicine, has died at the age of 99.

Ogunlesi, an Emeritus Professor from the Ogun State town of Sagamu, died on Thursday.

In 1965, he became Nigeria’s first professor of medicine.

Ogunlesi began his medical career in 1947 at Yaba College of Medicine and continued his education at the University of London in 1953, where he became a registered Medical Officer in England.

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The family confirmed his death in a statement signed by Adeleke Ogunlesi and shared by Tolu, Special Assistant on Digital/New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Funeral arrangements will be announced in due course, according to the family.

His children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren survive him.

Ogunlesi is Nigeria’s first Head of Department of Medicine at the University College Hospital in Ibadan, as well as the inaugural Director of the Ibarapa Community Health Programme and the first President of the Nigerian Postgraduate Medical College.

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