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Mrs Oladayo Agbeke Oluwole

Father : Omoba Adeleke Adedoyin

Mother :Olori Emily Abosede Adedoyin née Sobiro

She was the eldest child of the family.

Early Years

She attended CMS Girls School Lagos where she obtained her Senior Cambridge Certificate Grade 1 with exemption from London Matriculation in 1949/50.

Career

She was the first Nigerian female Assistant Superintendent of Prisons - the beginning of a series of " firsts " she recorded during a distinguished career in the Federal Civil Service. She was promoted Superintendent of Prisons in 1966 - the first indegenous superior officer in the Nigeria Prisons Service. She became the first female Chief Superintendent of Prisons in 1971 and later Assistant Director of Prisons in in 1975 - the only female that time to be in charge of a State Command in the Prisons Department Nigeria. She was later posted to the Prisons Staff College Kirikiri Lagos where she was the first female Controller and Commandant for 9 years before her voluntary retirement in in 1984. She died on the 13th of January 2014

1.retrieved from the order of service to the burial service of late Mrs Oladayo Agbeke Oluwole

2.16 Prominent Nigerians of Yesteryears From RemoLand - Successful People Magazine : 26th December 2017 by Charles Segun Adegbite .successfulpeoplemagazine.wordpress.com > ...

Frank Giwa - Osagie NigerianWiki - Mrs Oladayo Oluwole née Adeleke Adedoyin was at the Nigeria Prisons Service when he was the first Director of Prisons Service