Professor Grace Alele-Williams is dead. Professor Grace who was Nigeria’s first female Vice Chancellor died at the age of 89. A professor of mat
Professor Grace Alele-Williams is dead.
Professor Grace who was Nigeria’s first female Vice Chancellor died at the age of 89.
A professor of mathematics, she gained prominence after she was appointed the vice-chancellor of the prestigious University of Benin in 1985.
Her tenure witnessed a drastic reduction in cultism, a menace in UNIBEN at the time.
Before her appointment as vice-chancellor, she made history as the first Nigerian woman to obtain a doctorate degree in Mathematics education in 1963, a rare feat in the sixties.
The circumstances surrounding her death is still unclear as at the time of filing this report
