1. Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was a paediatrician, activist and health minister of Nigeria.
11 Facts About Olikoye Ransome-Kuti
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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was born in Ijebu Ode on 30 December 1927, in present-day Ogun State, Nigeria.
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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti's mother, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a prominent political campaigner and women's rights activist, and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers.
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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was senior lecturer at the University of Lagos from 1967 to 1970 and appointed Director of child health at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos and became Head of Department of Paediatrics from 1968 to 1976.
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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was professor of paediatrics at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos until his retirement in 1988.
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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti worked as senior house officer at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and as a locum in Hammersmith Hospital in the 1960s.
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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was minister until 1992, when he joined the World Health Organization as its Deputy Director-General.
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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti held various teaching positions, including a visiting professorship at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University's school of hygiene and public health.
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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti won both the Leon Bernard Foundation Prize and the Maurice Pate Award, in 1986 and in 1990 respectively.
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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was married to Doherty Adefare Sonia for 50 years, and they had three children.
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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti died on 1 June 2003 in a hotel room while attending a World Health Organization meeting in England.