BREAKING NEWS: First Female Vice Chancellor Of A Nigerian Varsity, Professor Alele-Williams Is Dead

The former Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof. Grace Alele-Williams has passed on.

The First female VC in Nigeria just passed on at 89.

She was a great woman. Speaker per excellence, a role model to women and a pride to the educational system in Nigeria.

Prof. was born in 1932 in Warri, Delta state, attended Government school, Warri, Queen’s College, Lagos and the University College of Ibadan (now University of Ibadan).

She obtained a master’s degree in mathematics while teaching at Queen’s School, Ede in Osun State in 1957 and her PhD degree in mathematics education at the University of Chicago (U.S.) in 1963, thereby making her the first Nigerian woman to be awarded a doctorate degree.


She died at age 89. May her gentle soul rest in perfect peace.