Nigeria’s first female Vice Chancellor, Prof. Grace Alele-Williams, is dead.
She was 89.
Details of the circumstances surrounding the death of the first Nigerian woman to receive a Doctorate remains sketchy.
She became the first Nigerian woman to obtain a doctorate degree in 1963.
Ms Alele-Williams, who was a professor of mathematics, was appointed the first Nigerian female VC at the University of Benin (UNIBEN) in 1985.