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unusual facts about University College Hospital, Ibadan



Abdul Hamid Adiamoh

The second of six children, he attended Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan and Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomosho, Nigeria.

Abeokuta

Between 1877 and 1893 the Yoruba Civil Wars occurred, and Abeokuta opposed Ibadan, which led the king or alake of the Egba to sign an alliance with the British governor, Sir Gilbert Carter.

Adegoke Adelabu

As one of the leading Ibadan politician of his time, he championed the cause of the NCNC led by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe.

Ahmed Usman

Two people were killed and about 20 wounded at the Salami Sports Stadium, Ibadan in April 1998, when supporters of the United Action for Democracy (UAD) disrupted a pro-Abacha rally that had earlier been addressed by Colonel Ahmed Usman.

Andrzej Skarbek

He later worked at University College Hospital, King George Hospital, Ilford and in 1977 he became consultant psychotherapist at Runwell, Rochford and Basildon Hospitals.

Bruce Onobrakpeya

Onobrakpeya later attended a series of printmaking workshops in Ibadan, Oshogbo, Ife and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine, USA.

Desmond Pond

He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge in both Natural and Moral Sciences and trained in Medicine at University College Hospital and at Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina.

DIAMOND 101.1 FM, Ibadan, Nigeria

The station is received by listeners in the city of Ibadan and nearby towns and cities.

Errol Hill

He was a teaching fellow at the, 1958-66; University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria (1965-67), and then an associate professor of drama at Richmond College of the City University of New York, 1967-68.

Frederick Valentine Atkinson

From 1948-1955 he was Full Professor in Mathematics (Chair, and Dean of Arts) at University College, Ibadan, in Nigeria.

Government College Umuahia

These three institutions, Government College Umuahia (GCU), Government College, Ibadan and Government College Zaria (Barewa College), were designed to follow the traditions of British "public schools" such as Eton, Harrow and Winchester.

In 1927 the British Colonial Government in Lagos decided to start 3 new Secondary Schools for boys, namely a school in Ibadan (Government College, Ibadan), in Zaria (now Barewa College) and in Umuahia (Government College Umuahia).

Hans Rudolf Herren

Only 32-years old, Herren then went to work for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Helpline Telecoms Nigeria Limited

Due to the shifting focus of the company from a mortal and brick based sales company, the company's physical location is the headquarters in Ibadan and the Lagos contact office at Cubic Technologies, 19 Mojidi Street, Off Toyin Street, Ikeja, Lagos.

Henry Stanhope Freeman

In his Annual Report for 1863, Freeman said that trade had almost stopped altogether due to the by war between Ibadan and Abeokuta.

Ibadan Military Cemetery

Ibadan Military Cemetery is situated in the Jericho district of Ibadan, Nigeria.

IDX Systems

Carecast also came in a regionalized version currently used at the University College Hospital in London.

Ife

Hotels in Ilé-Ife include Hotel Diganga Ife-Ibadan road, Mayfair Hotel, Obafemi Awolowo University Guest House etc.

Isaac Babalola Akinyele

Since the Pax Britannica of 1893, the Ibadan had started to settle down to civil life occasioning cocoa farming; introduced by the CMS around 1890, and other agricultural and business enterprises.

Joseph Akahan

In the January 1966 coup that brought Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi to power, the mainly northern Ibadan-based 4th battalion lost its commanding officer who was replaced by an Igbo, Major Nzefili.

Akahan was one of the leaders of the July 1966 counter-coup in which Aguiyi-Ironsi was killed and replaced General Yakubu Gowon, and in which there was a mass slaughter of Igbo officers at 4th Battalion in Ibadan under Akahan's command.

Kiki Omeili

Her Father Charles was a banker with First Bank Nigeria and retired as a General Manager, while her mother Maureen was the Controller of Prisons in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.

Len Doyal

In the 1980s he became interested in ethics and law applied to medicine and at University College and The Middlesex Hospitals joint medical school he organised and jointly taught on a part-time basis on the subject.

Lijadu Sisters

The twins grew up in the Nigerian town of Ibadan, and were inspired musically by various artists including Aretha Franklin, Victor Olaiya and Miriam Makeba.

Nkem Nwankwo

Born in Nawfia-Awka, a village near the Igbo city of Onitsha in Nigeria, Nwankwo attended University College in Ibadan, gaining a BA in 1962.

Ogbidi Okojie

J.U. Egharevba, "A Short History of Benin", Ibadan University Press, 1968.

Omar Fakhri

In 1961, he was granted a fellowship by the International Atomic Energy Agency for a year of further training at University College Hospital in London on the medical application of isotopes.

Oyin Adejobi

He also had a weekly television show, Kootu Asipa "Ashipa Court" on Nigerian Television Authority, Ibadan.

Papalolo

Plays on Nigerian TV included the very successful comedy Owo Tabua (Plenty Money), which was syndicated on NTA, Ibadan, Lagos Television (LTV 8) and Ogun State Television, OGTV, Abeokuta.

Peter Diggory

After the war, he studied medicine at University College Hospital, where he met his future wife, Patricia (died 2002), with whom he had two children.

Richard Lindsey Batten

In 1955, he was appointed trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at the new University College Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Socio-Analysis

After studying History at Oxford University, and a stint teaching History at his old school, he began Medical training at University College Hospital in 1924 and qualified in 1930.

Ulli Beier

In 1956, after visiting the First Congress of Negro Artists and Writers in Paris organized by Présence Africaine at the Sorbonne, Ulli Beier returned to Ibadan with more ideas.

University of Agriculture, Abeokuta

The current Chancellor is His Royal Majesty, Obi (Prof.) Joseph Chike Edozien, the Asagba of Asaba in Delta State, a renowned and retired Professor of Medicine of the University of Ibadan.

William Rice Mulliner

He met the Bashorun of Abeokuta, who told him that the recent robberies of traders' property were due to the war with Ibadan.

Yvonne Oddon

After the war, Yvonne Oddon, while continuing her work at the Musée de l'Homme, took part in numerous missions under the aegis of UNESCO (Haïti, 1949) and took part in the organisation of education conferences based in Malmö in 1950 and in Ibadan in 1954; then the creation of the International Council of Museums, for which she made a classification system; and she took part, after her retirement, in numerous missions, particularly to the Museum centre in Jos, Nigeria.


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