Chief Ibori Mourns Grace Alele-Williams. Chief James Onanefe Ibori has received with sadness and a deep sense of personal loss, the passing of Prof Grace Alele-Williams. Ibori said: “Alele -Williams’ life imparted greatly on mine as she was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin while I was a student there. I remember her as an outstanding woman of integrity and one of those who showed my feet the way to follow”. Ibori sent his condolences to the Itsekiri nation and Delta state whose histories Alele-Williams decorated with her trail-blazing life; as the first Nigerian woman to earn a PhD in Mathematics and the first female Vice-Chancellor of a Nigerian University. Ibori said: “I regret her passing even as I thank God for the pace-setting life she lived as a high -achiever”. Signed: Tony Eluemunor Media Assistant to Chief James Onanefe Ibori

 Press Statement

                                                          25 March 25,

2022


Chief Ibori Mourns Grace Alele-Williams.


Chief James Onanefe Ibori has received with sadness and a deep sense

of personal loss, the passing of Prof Grace Alele-Williams.


Ibori said: “Alele -Williams’ life imparted greatly on mine as she was

the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin while I was a student

there. I remember her as an outstanding woman of integrity and one of

those who showed my feet the way to follow”.


Ibori sent his condolences to the Itsekiri nation and Delta state

whose histories Alele-Williams decorated with her trail-blazing life;

as the first Nigerian  woman to earn a PhD in Mathematics and the first

female Vice-Chancellor of a Nigerian University.


Ibori said: “I regret her passing even as I thank God for

the pace-setting life she lived as a high -achiever”.


Signed: Tony Eluemunor


Media Assistant to Chief James Onanefe Ibori

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