Moses Majekodunmi

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| honorific_prefix = Chief

| name = Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi

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| image = File:Photo of Chief Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi.jpg

| office1 = Minister of Health

| term_start1 = 1960

| term_end1 = 1966

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| office2 = Administrator of Western Region (Nigeria)

| term_start2 = 29 June 1962

| term_end2 = December 1962

| predecessor2 = Samuel Akintola

| successor2 = Samuel Akintola

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1916|8|17}}

| birth_place = Abeokuta, Nigeria

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2012|04|11|1916|8|17}}

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Chief Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi ({{langx|yo|Adékóyèjọ Májẹ̀kódùnmí}}, {{pronunciation|Yo-Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi.ogg|help=no}}; 17 August 1916 – 11 April 2012[http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/moses-adekoyejo-majekodunmi-1916-2012-/115074/ Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi (1916-2012)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714153423/http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/moses-adekoyejo-majekodunmi-1916-2012-/115074/ |date=14 July 2014 }}[http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/class-of-first-republic-majekodunmi-95-joins-his-contemporaries/113509/ Class of First Republic, Majekodunmi, 95, Joins His Contemporaries], thisdaylive.com. Accessed 8 August 2023.) was a Nigerian gynaecologist and obstetrician. He was Minister of Health in the Nigerian First Republic.

As an Oloye of the Yoruba people, he held the chieftaincy titles of the Mayegun of Lagos and the Otun Balogun of the Christians of Egbaland.{{fact|date=April 2022}}

Early life and education

Majekodunmi was born in Abeokuta in August 1916. He studied at Abeokuta Grammar School, St. Gregory's College, Lagos, before proceeding to Trinity College Dublin where he earned a degree in Anatomy and Physiology in 1936. He also earned a 1st Class degree in Bacteriology and Clinical Medicine in 1940.{{cite web|url=http://m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/89157/1/moses-adekoyejo-majekodunmi-1916-2012.html|website=The Nigerian Voice|title=Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi (1916-2012)|date=4 May 2012}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QWTd1ftuCbwC&pg=PA219|title=Historical Dictionary of Nigeria (Volume 111)|author1=Toyin Falola|author2=Ann Genova|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2009|isbn= 978-0-810-8631-63|page=218}}

Medical career

In Ireland, he worked as an in-house physician at the National Children's Hospital and the Rotunda Hospital from 1941 to 1942. In 1943, he joined the Federal Government Medical Services as a medical doctor and established his medical practice. He played key roles in the establishment of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital{{cite news|url=http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/moses-adekoyejo-majekodunmi-1916-2012-/115074/|title=Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi (1916-2012)|publisher=This Day Live|date=4 May 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714153423/http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/moses-adekoyejo-majekodunmi-1916-2012-/115074/|archive-date=14 July 2014}} and also founded Saint Nicholas Hospital in Lagos, which opened in March 1968.{{cite web

|url = http://saintnicholashospital.com/about.php

|title = About

|publisher = Saint Nicholas Hospital

|access-date = 2010-05-26

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100505062212/http://saintnicholashospital.com/about.php

|archive-date = 2010-05-05

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Political career

He was elected into the Nigerian Senate in 1960. He was appointed sole administrator of the Western Region in June 1962 after a political crisis in the region, holding office in place of Premier Samuel Akintola until December of that year.{{cite web

|url=http://www.dawodu.com/emerg1.htm

|title='I was not there to fight the Action Group'

|work=The Guardian

|access-date=2010-05-26}}

The crisis was due to a struggle between Akintola and the former Western Region Premier and current leader of the opposition Obafemi Awolowo, which had led to violent scenes in the House of Assembly.

On advice from the police, one of his first acts was to sign restriction orders to detain leaders of both factions.

After the situation had stabilized, Akintola resumed office on 1 January 1963.{{cite web

|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Nigeria_regions.html

|title=Provinces and Regions of Nigeria

|work=WorldStatesmen

|access-date=2010-05-26}}