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Anuoluwapo Adegoroye PHNT,(1930 –2019) was the Head of the Community Nurses Training School, Lagos until 1973 after which she became the Head of the Community Midwives Training School, Lagos, and later, the Head of the School of Public Health Nursing, Lagos, a position she held until 31st May 1978. On 1st June 1978, she voluntarily retired after 30 years of service in the Federal Ministry of Health and later on in the Lagos State Ministry of Health. .

Biography
Mama's husband, Prince Adeniji Adegoroye, passed on to glory on 7th April 1999. Their marriage was blessed with 3 children – Sola, Nike, and Yinka. Today, not only is Maama blessed with her biological children, she is blessed with her children’s spouses – Ranti, Sola and Segun, as well as with the children of her late brother – Tayo, Iyabo, Banwo and Lanre, their spouses and many grandchildren. vice versa.

Early life
Mrs. Anuoluwapo Adegoroye (“Maama” as she is fondly called) was born on Saturday, 18th October 1930 at Ijebu-Mushin in the part of the Southern Protectorate of Nigeria which is now known as Ogun State, to the family of late Mr. Theophilus Ishmael Fojuri Osifodunrin of Ijebu-Ode and Mrs. Bernice Odubowale Osifodunrin (nee Kuti); the second of her mother’s 2 children who survived into adulthood.

Maama had her primary education at St. Saviours School and C.M.S Girls School, both in Ijebu-Ode, and her secondary school at Queen’s College, Lagos. After the completion of her secondary education at Queens College in 1948, she worked briefly as a Nurse Probationer at the General Hospital, Lagos. 18 months later, with the encouragement she received from her school mother in Queen’s College, Mrs. Florence Odufalu, her uncle, late Mr. Samson O. Odugbesan and her brother, late Mr. Samuel O. Osifodunrin, she applied for and was awarded a government scholarship to study General Nursing and Midwifery in the United Kingdom in 1950. In 1955, the government scholarship was extended for a year to enable her study Public Health Nursing at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. While studying at the University of Southampton, she met Prince Christopher Adeniji Oni Adegoroye who was studying for his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in the same university. They got married on 28th July 1956. She returned to Nigeria in the same year and worked as a Nursing Sister at the General Hospital, Lagos. From 1957 to 1958, she worked as the Public Health Sister in charge of the rural clinics in Victoria Division in the Southern Cameroons. In 1959, she was awarded a World Health Organisation fellowship to undergo the Public Health Nurse Tutors Course at the Royal College of Nursing in London. She returned to Nigeria in 1960 to become the first Nigerian Public Health Nurse Tutor. .

Professional career
Maama worked as a Public Health Nurse Tutor at Lagos University Teaching Hospital/Nurses Training School from 1960 to 1964 and in 1965, she became the Head of the Community Nurses Training School, Lagos. In 1967, she was awarded another World Health Organisation fellowship to study the integration of public health nursing into the educational programmes for nurses at university level and in hospitals’ Schools of Nursing at the University of Toronto, Canada, and in 1973, she was given a Ford Foundation fellowship to observe Family Planning Activities in North Carolina, U.S.A, Jamaica, Mexico and Costa Rica.

Maama was the Head of the Community Nurses Training School, Lagos until 1973 after which she became the Head of the Community Midwives Training School, Lagos, and later, the Head of the School of Public Health Nursing, Lagos, a position she held until 31st May 1978. On 1st June 1978, she voluntarily retired after 30 years of service in the Federal Ministry of Health and later on in the Lagos State Ministry of Health.

Between 1979 and 1984, she was appointed as a Nurse Consultant with the World Health Organisation, based at the World Health Organisation Regional Training Centre for Health Services Personnel, Yaba, Lagos. In 1980, she was appointed as a Nurse Consultant to the Gambian Ministry of Health with the task of reviewing and systemising the training programme for Gambian volunteer village primary health care workers.

In 1985, she established ANAD Health Management Consultancy Services, a platform from which she continued to actively make her skills and knowledge in the field of public health nursing available to the Federal Ministry of Health, various state Ministries of Health and international organisations such as the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the U.S. based Combating Childhood Communicable Diseases (CCCD) Project

Member of professional bodies

 * a member of and the professional representative on the Midwives Board of Nigeria.
 * a member of the Education Committee of the Midwives Board of Nigeria.
 * a member of the Education Committee of Lagos State School of Nursing and Lagos State School of Midwifery.
 * the Secretary of the Education Committee of Lagos State School of Public Health Nursing and Lagos State Community Nurses/Midwives Training School.
 * a member of Lagos State District Nursing/Midwifery Committees.
 * member of the Health Visitors Association of Nigeria.
 * a member of the National Planning Committee for the Basic Health Services Scheme – Tutors’ Training Programme.
 * a member, Nigerian Joint Therapeutic Commission, Federal Ministry of Health.
 * an examiner for the Nursing Council of Nigeria & Midwives Board of Nigeria.
 * an examiner for the West African Board of the Royal Society of Health.
 * an external examiner for the Community Health Care Officers’ Training Programme of the University of Lagos.
 * the President of the Nigerian Association of Nurse Tutors, Lagos Branch.
 * the Treasurer, National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Lagos Branch.
 * the National Treasurer, Society of Health, Nigeria,
 * the Honorary Editor-in-Chief of the Nigerian Nurse Journal from 1968 to 1978.
 * Chairman, West African College of Nursing, Lagos Area, from 1982 to 1986.
 * Chairman, West African College of Nursing, Western Zone of the Nigeria Chapter, from 1983 to 1985.
 * Regional Treasurer, West African College of Nursing, from 1983 to 1985.
 * member, Panel of Overseas Advisers, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Blackwell Scientific Publications, London, from 1984 to 1994.
 * Regional Chairman, Faculty of the West African College of Nursing, from 1985 to 1987.
 * an internal assessor of the West African College of Nursing Fellowship Award interview.
 * a Foundation Fellow of the West African College of Nursing, and is still a Fellow of the West African College of Nursing.

Honours and Award
In 1987, Maama was the recipient of the Meritorious Service Award of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Lagos Branch, and the recipient of the Florence Nightingale Award in 2001.

Author of a book “Community Health Care”
Maama has also served on many local and national committees on the training and education of health service personnel and has presented many papers on health matters at national and international seminars and workshops. She is the author of a book “Community Health Care” published by Macmillan Publishers, U.K., in 1984. She has also authored several health plays such as “Live and Let Live” – a play on the prevention of tuberculosis; “Obe L’awo” – a play on nutrition education; and “Kokumo” – a play on smallpox prophylaxis

Member of the Association (Y.W.C.A.), Lagos Branch

 * a member of the Board of Governors of the Secretariat College of the Young Women’s Christian Association (Y.W.C.A.), Lagos Branch from 1975 to 1980.
 * the Vice-President of the Y.W.C.A, Lagos Branch.
 * President of the Social and Cultural Group of the Y.W.C.A, Lagos Branch.
 * a member of Zonta Club of Lagos, a service organisation of executive women in business and the professions.
 * the Director of Service, Zonta Club of Lagos from 1975 to 1977.
 * Vice-President of Zonta Club of Lagos 1 from 1978 to 1980.
 * President, Zonta Club of Lagos 1 from 1980 to 1982.
 * the Director, Health Committee, Zonta Club of Lagos 1 from 1985 to 1987.

A committed Christian, Maama was until 1998, an active member of All Saints’ Church, Yaba, a member and past President of the Morning Star Society of All Saints’ Church, Yaba, and also a member of the Editorial Board of the church’s magazine - The Saints. Currently, she is an active member of The Agape Community Baptist Church, Surulere, where she gave her life to Christ in 1998.

Maama has travelled to many countries
Professionally and in her own right, Maama has travelled to many countries, including, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cote D’Ivoire, Finland, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Liberia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Spain, Swaziland, Switzerland, Thailand, Togo, United Kingdom and United States of America.