A former permanent secretary in the old Western Region and first Nigerian woman to be appointed as head of civil service, Mrs Tejumade Alakija, is dead.
She was aged 88.
Mrs Alakija, daughter of the late Ooni of Ife and Governor of Western Region, Sir Adesoji Aderemi, died in the early hours of yesterday at the private suite of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.
A reliable source confided in NE that the deceased had been in and out at the UCH in the last few months, adding that former president Olusegun Obasanjo visited her on her hospital bed at the private suite two months ago.
Her body was taken to the Anatomy Unit of the University of Ibadan shortly after she passed on, due to the ongoing strike by health workers at the UCH.
The late Alakija founded the Anglican Girls Grammar School, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.
She was the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health and also worked at various positions in the Western Region’s Ministry of Trade in the 1960s.
She attended primary schools at Ile-Ife and later Kudeyi Girls School in Ibadan and C.M.S. Girls School, Lagos.
She later travelled abroad and attended Grimes College, Manchester, Westfield College, and Oxford University.
She returned to Nigeria in 1953 and worked as a government education officer.
source: nigerianeye
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