Osoba the first professor of medical microbiology at the UI is dead

The deceased is survived by his wife, Prof Nike Osoba nee Ashiru, children and extended family members.

Osoba, 83, attended CMS Grammar School, obtained his BA. (1958) and MA. in Microbiology from the Trinity College, Dublin and then proceeded to the Queen’s University, Belfast to read medicine and graduated in 1964

Abimbola Osoba returned to Nigeria in 1965 and took up an appointment as a Senior Registrar in the Department of Medical Microbiology, UCH Ibadan. He then went back to the UK in 1975 for his MD with honours at the Queens University, Belfast.

In 1978, he was appointed Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Ibadan and consultant Microbiologist to UCH. Abimbola Osoba also became the first Director of the Special Treatment Clinic and Venereal Diseases and Treponematoses Research and Teaching Laboratories of UCH, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.

He wrote almost 300 scientific papers on infectious diseases and clinical microbiology topics published locally and internationally. He was at various times a visiting professor at the John Hopkins, USA.

In 1987, he went abroad to take up various medical appointments at the Royal Wolverhampton Hospital, Birmingham General Hospital in the UK.

He was later appointed a consultant and head of the division of microbiology at the Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh (1987-1995). In 1995, he was appointed as the Head of the Department of Microbiology and Deputy Director of Pathology at the King Khalid National Guard Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (1996-2006).

May his soul rest in peace.