Audrey Olatokunbo Ajose (born c. 1937) is a Nigerian lawyer and writer. She served as her country's ambassador to

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from 1987 to 1991.

Early life and education

The daughter of Omoba

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and Beatrice Spencer Roberts. Audrey Ajose was the daughter of a foreign woman married to a Nigerian. She studied journalism at the Regent Polytechnic. She studied and practiced law but still continued to work in broadcasting. She also studied theology and taught theology in the

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church.

Career

Ajose worked as a journalist at the '' Daily Times'' of Nigeria. Barrister Ajose made the case for more flexible immigration laws for foreign women married to Nigerians to some of the country's top parliamentarians. She drafted the first ''Nigerwives-Nigeria'' constitution under the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria on 7th September 1987 with an RC No. 5527. Ajose was a founding member of

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of Eko and served as its president. She was a member of th
Isale Eko Descendants’ Union Scholarship Fund
Committee (89).

Selected works

* ''Yomi's Adventures'', juvenile fiction (1964) * ''Yomi in Paris'', juvenile fiction (1966)

References

1930s births Living people Nigerian women journalists Nigerian children's writers Nigerian women children's writers Ambassadors of Nigeria to Sweden Place of birth missing (living people) Nigerian women lawyers Ambassadors of Nigeria to Norway Ambassadors of Nigeria to Denmark Nigerian women diplomats Nigerian women ambassadors Yoruba people Yoruba women writers Yoruba writers Yoruba lawyers Yoruba children's writers Alumni of the Regent Street Polytechnic {{Nigeria-writer-stub