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.
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RIP Mama Alakija
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