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Elfrida O. Adebo

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'''Elfrida O. Adebo''' (born 1928) is a Nigerian nurse and academic. In 1984 she became the first professor of nursing in Nigeria.<ref name=Orodare>Michael Orodare, [https://ift.tt/3qAnoon Dr Doyin Abiola, Prof. Elfrida Adebo, Major General Aderonke Kale – Extraordinary Nigerian women who made history in male-dominated fields], ''Neusroom'', 14 May 2020. Accessed 17 January 2021.</ref>

==Life==
Adebo started her nursing career in [[London]]. In 1959 she returned to Nigeria to work as a Public Health Nurse in [[Ibadan]]. After briefly working as an Instructor at the School of Hygiene in Ibadan, she became a lecturer at the [[University of Ibadan]]. She later became Head of the Department of Nursing at the university.<ref name=Orodare/>

In 1973 she was a member of the Experts Advisory Panel on Nursing for the [[World Health Organisation]]. She was also a consultant to Nigeria’s [[Federal Ministry of Health (Nigeria)|Federal Ministry of Health]].<ref name=Orodare/>

==References==



[[Category:1928 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Nigerian nurses]]
[[Category:Nigerian academics]]
[[Category:University of Ibadan faculty]]



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