Nigeria’s first female Vice Chancellor Is dead

A professor of mathematics who gained prominence after she was appointed the vice-chancellor of the prestigious University of Benin in 1985 dies at age 89

Nigeria’s first female Vice Chancellor, Prof. Grace Alele-Williams has died on friday.

She was also the first Nigerian woman to bag a doctorate.

Alele-Williams was born in Warri, Delta state on December 16, 1932 where she attended Government School, Warri, Queen’s College, Lagos and then University College of Ibadan (now University of Ibadan).

She obtained a master’s degree in mathematics while teaching at Queen’s School, Ede in Osun State in 1957 and her PhD degree in mathematics education at the University of Chicago (U.S.) in 1963, thereby making her the first Nigerian woman to be awarded a doctorate