Audrey Ajose

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Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose
Born1937 (1937)
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Parents
  • 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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