Renowned Nigerian academic, researcher and former Provost of the College of Health Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Femi Soyinka, has passed away.
A statement signed on behalf of the family by his son Ayodele Soyinka disclosed that Prof. Soyinka, aged 85 and younger brother of Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, died in the early hours of yesterday, Tuesday, June 14, 2022, at his home in Kukumada Village, Ibadan, Oyo State.
The statement below reads: “The Soyinka Family of Ake/Isara, Ogun State, has announced the passing of their father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, uncle Professor Femi Soyinka, which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, 14 June 2022 at his home in Kukumada Village, Ibadan, Oyo State.
“Born in 1937 Professor Femi Soyinka received a Medical degree in Medicine and Surgery MBchB from University of Heidelberg, 1964; and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the same University in 1965. He specialised and practised as a Dermatologist, Venereologist and Allergologist at the University of Giessen,1969.
