Audrey Ajose Explained

Honorific Prefix:Omoba
Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose
Birth Date: 1937

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]

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] and taught theology in the Lutheran church.[6]

Career

Ajose worked as a journalist at the Daily Times of Nigeria. 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.  

Ajose was a founding member of Soroptimist International of Eko and served as its president.[7] She was a member of the Isale Eko Descendants’ Union Scholarship Fund Committee (89).[8]

Selected works

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ajose, Audrey (Nigeria) . Literary Map of Africa . Ohio State University.
  2. News: Tribute to Late Oladele Adebayo Ajose . The Sun . Nigeria . July 17, 2003.
  3. Web site: Foreign women married Nigerians, nigerwives, foreign women in nigeria . 2022-05-27 . nigeria . en.
  4. Web site: Audrey Ajose Academic Influence . 2022-05-27 . academicinfluence.com . en.
  5. Web site: 2021-12-11 . AUDREY AJOSE: How I dared soldiers who held us captive in newsroom during 1985 coup - The Nation Newspaper . 2022-05-27 . en-US.
  6. Web site: MFR Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose . Government College Ibadan Old Boy's Association.
  7. News: The world of Amb. Audrey Ajose . https://web.archive.org/web/20061118132534/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/womanofthesun/2004/may/18/womanofthesun-may18-001.htm . The Sun . May 18, 2004 . Nigeria . dead. November 18, 2006.
  8. Web site: Who we are – Isale Eko . 2022-05-27 . en-US.
  9. Web site: National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia . 2022-05-27 . ndl.ethernet.edu.et.

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