Senior Pastor and founder of The Covenant Nation Poju Oyemade has said he fulfilled a promise he made to his mother, Prof. Adefunke Oyemade, by visiting the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
The cleric disclosed this in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
According to him, his mother studied medicine at the university in 1953 and he had promised to visit the institution.
“I promised my mum I will pay a visit to her school she attended in 1953. University of Glasgow where she read Medicine.
“Promise fulfilled,” he wrote.
According to information on the University of Ibadan website, Prof. Adefunke Oyemade was born on December 29, 1933.
She studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and later obtained a Diploma in Public Health from the institution.
She joined the University of Ibadan in 1968 and later became a professor.
Her work focused on children with special needs, foster care, motherless babies and children with hearing impairments.
She also worked with the World Health Organization and UNICEF on breastfeeding programmes and served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme and the International Labour Organization on rehabilitation programmes for persons with disabilities.
Prof. Oyemade was married to the late Dr. Gabriel Oyemade, an orthopedic surgeon.
