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<p dir="ltr">Nigeria’s first female university vice-chancellor and first female doctorate degree holder, Grace Alele-Williams, is dead.</p><div class="MLCq8zy1" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p dir="ltr">It gathered that the retired professor of mathematics education died on Friday.</p><div class="dTa4jy3o" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p dir="ltr">Though there is yet no official confirmation by either the family of the deceased or the University of Benin, Edo State, where she had served as a vice-chancellor, an official of the Queen’s College, one of Nigeria’s 104 unity colleges where she was an alumnus, broke the news.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sources in the school, who asked not to be named because they were not authorised to speak on the matter, confirmed the development.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Neither calls nor messages to the UNIBEN’s spokesperson, Benedicta Ehanire, on Friday night were replied as of the time of filing this report.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">But one of the messages shared on Queen’s College’s WhatsApp platforms, reads in part; “We lost a Great Queen’s College Old Girl Today. An amazon And a legend- Professor Grace Alele-Williams, first Female Vice Chancellor of a Nigerian University ( UNIBEN).”</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Mrs Alele-Williams, an educationist, was born on December 16, 1932, in Warri, in the present day Delta State.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The deceased made history when she became the first female vice-chancellor at the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Edo State.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">She was also the first Nigerian woman to receive a doctorate degree.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Mrs Alele-Williams attended Government School, Warri; Queen’s College, Lagos and the University College, Ibadan, now University of Ibadan.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">She returned to her alma mater in 1957 to receive a master’s degree in mathematics 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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Mrs Alele-Williams returned to Nigeria for a couple of years’ postdoctoral work at the University of Ibadan before joining the University of Lagos in 1965.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">She was in 1985 appointed the vice-chancellor at UNIBEN and held the office until 1992</p>
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