Buhari mourns Professor of Medicine, Ogunlesi

President Muhammadu Buhari has shared the pain of loss with Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), family members and friends of Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Theophilus Oladipo Ogunlesi, who made history in 1965 as Nigeria’s first Professor of Medicine.

This is according to a statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) on Friday, which informed that the President sent condolences to the academia, and professional colleagues of the medical doctor and scholar, who started on the path of a medical doctor at Yaba College of Medicine in 1947 and advanced his career at the University of London, 1953, where he qualified as a registered Medical Officer in England.