Audrey Ajose

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Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose
Born1937 (1937)
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  • Omoba Oladele Ajose
  • Beatrice Spencer Roberts

Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose (born c. 1937) is a Nigerian lawyer and writer. She served as her country's ambassador to Scandinavia from 1987 to 1991. [1]

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Early life and education

The daughter of Omoba Oladele Ajose and Beatrice Spencer Roberts. [2] Audrey Ajose was the daughter of a foreign woman married to a Nigerian. [3] She studied journalism at the Regent Polytechnic. She studied and practiced law but still continued to work in broadcasting. [4] She also studied theology [5] [6] and taught theology in the Lutheran church. [7]

Career

Ajose worked as a journalist at the Daily Times of Nigeria. [4] Barrister Ajose made the case for more flexible immigration laws for foreign women married to Nigerians to some of the country's top parliamentarians. She drafted the first Nigerwives-Nigeria constitution under the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria on 7 September 1987 with an RC No. 5527. [3]

Ajose was a founding member of Soroptimist International of Eko and served as its president. [5] She was a member of the Isale Eko Descendants’ Union Scholarship Fund Committee (89). [8]

Selected works

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References

  1. 1 2 "Ajose, Audrey (Nigeria)". Literary Map of Africa. Ohio State University.
  2. ↑ "Tribute to Late Oladele Adebayo Ajose". The Sun. Nigeria. July 17, 2003. Archived from the original on October 4, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Foreign women married Nigerians, nigerwives, foreign women in nigeria". nigeria. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  4. 1 2 "Audrey Ajose | Academic Influence". academicinfluence.com. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  5. 1 2 "The world of Amb. Audrey Ajose". The Sun. Nigeria. May 18, 2004. Archived from the original on November 18, 2006.
  6. ↑ "AUDREY AJOSE: How I dared soldiers who held us captive in newsroom during 1985 coup - The Nation Newspaper". 2021-12-11. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  7. ↑ "MFR Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose". Government College Ibadan Old Boy's Association.
  8. ↑ "Who we are – Isale Eko" . Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  9. ↑ "National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia". ndl.ethernet.edu.et. Retrieved 2022-05-27.


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