NAWRED:120-Folake Okediran

Folake Okediran

Folake was born in Bethnal Green, London, on June 9, 1957 to a medical doctor father, Dr. Ambrose Olowe, and a nursing sister mother, Mrs. Abike Olowe, both of blessed memory. On her return to Nigeria, Folake was enrolled at the Mary Hill Convent School Ibadan from where she went to Queen’s School Ibadan for her secondary school education. She enrolled in the then University of Ife (Now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife) in 1975, and qualified as a lawyer in 1979.

After her one-year law school programme at the Lagos Law School, Folake served during her National Youth Service programme at the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos. Being a committed Scholar, Folake went back to school and bagged two Master’s degrees, in Law and in Industrial and Labour Relations, from the Universities of Ife and Ibadan respectively. On December 4, 1982, Folake got married to her heartrob, Wale Okediran. The union is blessed with four daughters: Ebunoluwa, Oreoluwa, Oluwaseun and Olutoyin.

She joined the services of the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, in 1983, and held many important positions such as Acting Head of Department of Public and International Law, Sub Dean, and later Acting Dean of the Faculty. Folake took an early retirement in 2006 as a Senior Lecturer when she decided to move to the UK to supervise her children’s education.

With the children’s education completed in the UK, Folake eventually moved back to Nigeria. She eventually joined the services of the Baze University, Abuja, as an Associate Professor of Law in 2016. A few months into her appointment in Baze University, Folake took ill and had to go back to the UK for treatment.

She eventually slept in the Lord on Sunday, December 4, 2016, at the Queen’s Hospital, Romford, Essex, UK, and was an active member of many professional and religious associations both in Nigeria and the UK, left behind her husband, four children, a granddaughter, brothers, cousins and a host of friends and professional colleagues. Even though she is no more with us, our consolation is that she led a good Christian life and was a devoted mother, faithful wife and dependable friend.

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