BVMS, Ph.D, veterinary surgeon, born April 7. 1936, Ondo. Ondo State; married Augusta Banjoko Reis 1967, two sons, two daughters; EDUCATION: St Matthew’s Catholic Primary School, Ondo, 1943-50, Aquinas College, Akure, 1951-56, St Gregory’s College, Lagos, 1957-58, University of Edinburgh, 1960-65, University of London, 1968-69;<\/p>\n
CAREER; Appointed Tutor, St Louis Girls’ Secondary School, Ondo, 1959-60; worked at Ministry of Agriculture, Ibadan, 1965-67; Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and later Professor, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Ibadan, 1967-86; Head, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, 1985; Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ibadan, 1979-81; Professor of Veterinary Medicine, Ogun State University, 1986-87; Visiting Professor, University of Prince Ed ward Island, Canada, since November 1987; member, National Universities Commission (NUC), 1979-82; member, Governing Board, National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, since March 1988; member, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 1965; Committee member, International Organisation for Mycoplasmology (working team on bovine mycoplasmas); member. Advisory Board, International Centre for Diarrheoal Diseases Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; member, New York Academy of Sciences; Foreign Decorations: Knight of St Gregory the Great (Papa! Knight, Vatican, Rome, April 1985);
\nHobbies: table tennis, photography, reading, farming; Official Address: PO Box 19927, UI Post Office, Ibadan, Oyo State; OR Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown. Prince Edward Island, Canada, CIA 4P3; Telephone: (902) 566-0638; Home: 2 University Road. Ojoo, Oyo Road, Ibadan, Oyo State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9889","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9889"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}