Chief Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi, was the first female physician practitioner in Nigeria. She was also the first West African woman to earn a license of Royal Surgeon in Dublin.
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Chief Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi, was the first female physician practitioner in Nigeria. She was also the first West African woman to earn a license of Royal Surgeon in Dublin. In 1938, Elizabeth Awoliyi became the second West African woman to qualify as an orthodox-medicine trained physician after Agnes Yewande Savage who graduated from medical school in 1929. She served as the second President of the National Council of Women's Societies of Nigeria from 1964 until her death in 1971.
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