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Professor Banji Ayoola attended the Ilesha Grammar School from
1958 to 1962 passing out in Division 1 with many distinctions. He
attended Ibadan Grammar School for HSC briefly and the University of
Ibadan where he qualified MBBS in 1969.
He obtained a Commonwealth fellowship in Postgraduate Medicine to both t
the University of Exeter and the Middlesex Hospital of the University of
London. He emigrated to the USA in 1971, had his medical residency and
fellowship at the University of Minnesota Hospitals Minneapolis MN USA
and was a chief Medical Resident at the Veterans Hospital Minneapolis
MN.
He is Board certified in Internal Medicine, a Fellow of the American
College of Physicians; Member American college of Gastroenterology;
Fellow of the Medical College of Physicians of Nigeria, Fellow of the
west African college of Physicians was Member of the New York Academy of
Science
After teaching briefly in the USA, he returned to Nigeria as the
foundation lecturer and consultant in Medicine at the OAU College of
Health Sciences before returning to the UCH Ibadan (1976 to 1986) where
he was the Head of Gastroenterology Unit UCH Ibadan (1976-1986) a member
of Senate and coordinator of Postgraduate Training and members of many
committees. He was the Hall Warden of the Clinical Students Hostel from
1976 to 1986 (the famous ABH). Ayoola was a member of the Governing
Council of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (1982 to
1986) member of its Senate (1982 to 1988) and Acting Registrar of NMPC
(1982 to 1984).
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At various times, Professor Ayoola
was the Provost of the College of Medicine in the University of Sokoto
Nigeria; the Professor of Medicine and Heaptogastroenterology in the
King Saud University College of Medicine Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; an
Adviser to the Saudi government Ministry of Health and member of many
boards. Professor Ayoola was a consultant/ adviser to the World Health
Organization both at the central level(Geneva and regional level (Afro
Region); and had served as the vice - chairman of a session. A founding
member of the International Task Force on hepatitis B, he belongs to
many international professional associations and was a Council Member of
the International Association for the Study of the Liver (IASL) and
President of the African Association for the study of liver diseases (AFSLD).
He was examiners to many Universities in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and
abroad both for undergraduate and postgraduate examinations. A member of
many Editorial boards of National and International Medical journals,
Prof Ayoola has published from 1970, over 120 scientific papers in
reputable medical journals and contributed to books in Medicine. He has
presented numerous lectures and papers in conferences and seminars in
all the continents of the world, wining many awards including an ACG
blue ribbon presidential award for his presentation in Baltimore in
2003.
A former charter secretary of the Lions International and President of
the famous Ijesha Patriotic Klub of Nigeria, he is a traditional chief (Saloro
of Ilo-Ilesha), a poultry farmer and a Justice of the Peace /Notary
Public since 1979. He is currently chairman to a number of Boards of
Directors of companies here and in Nigeria.
A devout Christian, Prof Ayoola’s hobbies include movies, reading, music
and organ playing
Prof Banji Ayoola is also the
younger brother of Hon. Justice Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola (CON) who
retired as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in October 2003.
PostScript: See after
event pictures at the
Photo Gallery.
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Annual Family Summer Picnic
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Health Fair & Health Education
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African dancers in action
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The Great Okefenokee
Swamp, one of America’s most fascinating natural areas, is the largest,
intact, un-fragmented, wilderness Swamp in North America, and is located
in the southeast corner of Georgia, U.S.A
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