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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was born on 30 December, 1927 in Niger, is a Nigerian paediatrician, activist and health minister. Discover Olikoye Ransome-Kuti's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Occupation paediatrician, activist and health minister of Nigeria.
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 30 December, 1927
Birthday 30 December
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Date of death 1 June, 2003
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Nationality Niger

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1927

Olikoye Ransome-Kuti (30 December 1927 – 1 June 2003) was a paediatrician, activist and health minister of Nigeria.

Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was born in Ijebu Ode on 30 December 1927, in present-day Ogun State, Nigeria.

His mother, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a prominent political campaigner and women's rights activist, and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers.

His brother Fela would grow up to be a popular musician and a founder of Afrobeat, while another brother, Beko, would become an internationally known physician and political activist.

1948

Ransome-Kuti attended Abeokuta Grammar School, University of Ibadan and Trinity College Dublin (1948–54).

Ransome-Kuti was a house physician at General Hospital, Lagos.

1960

He worked as senior house officer at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and as a locum in Hammersmith Hospital in the 1960s.

1967

He was senior lecturer at the University of Lagos from 1967 to 1970 and appointed Director of child health at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos and became Head of Department of Paediatrics from 1968 to 1976.

1980

In the 1980s, he joined the government of General Ibrahim Babangida as the health minister.

1983

In 1983 along with two other Nigerians, he founded one of Nigeria's largest health focused NGOs – Society for Family Health Nigeria primarily concerned with family planning and child health services at the time.

1986

In 1986, he conveyed word of Nigeria's first AIDS case, a 14-year-old girl who had been diagnosed with HIV.

He won both the Leon Bernard Foundation Prize and the Maurice Pate Award, in 1986 and in 1990 respectively.

1988

He was professor of paediatrics at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos until his retirement in 1988.

1992

He was minister until 1992, when he joined the World Health Organization as its Deputy Director-General

He held various teaching positions, including a visiting professorship at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University's school of hygiene and public health.

He wrote extensively for medical journals and publications.

2003

Ransome-Kuti died on 1 June 2003.

He was survived by his wife of 50 years Sonia and three children.