The first Nigerian Professor of Medicine, Theophilus Oladipo Ogunlesi has died at 99 on Thursday.
Ogunlesi, an Emeritus Professor, who hailed from Makun Sagamu area of Ogun State is the father of Billionaire Adebayo Ogunlesi, the owner of Gatwick Airport. The airport is noted to be the second-busiest airport in the UK and the ninth-busiest in Europe.
Ogunlesi made history In 1965 as Nigeria’s first Professor of Medicine.
He started his education at Yaba College of Medicine in 1947, and advanced his career at the University of London in 1953 and qualified as a registered Medical Officer in England.
