Elfrida O. Adebo

Elfrida O. Adebo, née Olaniyan (born 1928) is a Nigerian nurse and academic. In 1984 she became the first professor of nursing in Nigeria.
Life.
Adebo was born in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on 3 March 1928. She started her nursing career in London, training as a staff nurse and midwife at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1957-58. In 1959 she returned to Nigeria to work as a Public Health Nurse in Ibadan. She gained a D.P.H. in Nursing in 1961, and a Bachelor of Nursing in 1962. After briefly working as an instructor at the School of Hygiene in Ibadan, she became a lecturer at the University of Ibadan. Joining the Department of Nursing in October 1967, she became acting Head of Department by 1970. From 1976 to 1980 she studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1980 she was appointed Head of Department at the Department of Nursing in Ibadan.
In 1973 she was a member of the Experts Advisory Panel on Nursing for the World Health Organization. She was also a consultant to Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health.