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BIOGRAPHY

Dr. (Mrs.) Abimbola Olayinka Asagba was born on the 28th of May, 1938 in
Ibadan to the family of Late Pa Ladapo Ogunleye and Late Mama Eunice
Oladeji Ogunleye of Iloro Owo in Ondo State.

Bimbola as her Dad used to call her had her primary education at
Government Primary School Owo and proceeded to Methodist Girls High
School, Lagos for her secondary school education. She lost her Mom during
her West African School Certificate Examination in 1956. This did not deter
her from coming out in Grade 1 in the Certificate Examination.

On completion of her secondary school education, she proceeded to
Abeokuta Grammar School for her Higher School Certificate education
(HSC). Here she met the highly respected, talented and famous Scientists
and Authors-the Oyewole Twins Femi and Dotun who taught her Chemistry
and Physics thereby shaping her life for greater heights and creating a
pathway for her to study Medicine. After completing her HSC she taught
briefly at St Annes School Ibadan. She later won a scholarship to study
Medicine at Medical Institute of the Patrice Lumumba Friendship University,
Moscow, Russia USSR in 1962.

Upon completion of her Medical School education in 1967 she returned
home to Nigeria and did her Housemanship at the Lagos University Teaching
Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba.

At the completion of her Housemanship (Internship), the Nigerian Civil War
was on so she was drafted into the Nigerian Army and was promoted to
Captain in the Army. She later disengaged from the Army at the end of the
Civil War and returned to LUTH where she was employed as a Medical
Officer by the LUTH Management and was later promoted to Senior Medical
Officer.

She later left LUTH Services to work in the Private Sector. She was
employed as a Senior Medical Officer by Dr Saraki in the Saraki- Ikomi Group
of Clinics. There she worked for 10 years. At the end of the 10th year she
decided to go back to School to study Public Health. She went to the Royal
Institute of Public Health and Hygiene in London where she obtained a
Diploma in Public Health (D.P.H) and the Fellowship of the Royal Institute of
Public Health and Hygiene (FRIPHH) in 1978.

On her return to Nigeria, she was employed by the Federal Ministry of
Health and posted to the Directorate of Public Health Services where she
worked as a Consultant with the Director of Public Health for some years.
She later went on in-service training to the prestigious Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health, Baltimore USA where she obtained her Masters degree in
Public Health (MPH) and later to Emory University School of Public Health
Atlanta, USA for her Masters degree in Occupational Health.

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