The first Nigerian professor of medicine, Theophilus Oladipo Ogunlesi, has passed away.
He died at the age of 99.
Ogunlesi, an Emeritus Professor, who hailed from Sagamu area of Ogun state, died on Thursday, January 19.
He made history in 1965 as Nigeria’s first professor of medicine.
Ogunlesi started on the path of a medical doctor at Yaba College of Medicine in 1947, and advanced his career at the University of London in 1953, where he became a registered medical officer.
The family confirmed Ogunlesi’s demise in a statement signed by Adeleke Ogunlesi, according to The Nation.
According to the family, funeral arrangements will be announced in due course.
He is survived by his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Ogunlesi is Nigeria’s first head of department of Medicine University College Hospital, Ibadan, inaugural director of the Ibarapa Community Health Programme, and first President of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.
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