Greg Nwoko Historic Blog

Monday, 27 October 2014

Isaac Lapido Oluwole

Isaac Lapido Oluwole was born around 1892, the son of Isaac Olwole, a Nigerian Anglican bishop of Sierra Leonean and Egba heritage. After graduation he returned to Nigeria as the first African Medical Officer of Health in the Lagos colony. He pioneered school health services with schools inspections and the vaccination of children in their schools and started the first Nigerian School of Hygiene at Yaba Lagos in 1920.

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