Oludolapo Osinbajo, (''née'' Soyode, born 16 July 1967) is a

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lawyer and political figure. As the wife of the

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Yemi Osinbajo Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo (born 8 March 1957) is a Nigerian lawyer, professor, and politician who is the 14th and current Vice President of Nigeria since 2015. A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), he previously served as Attorney G ...

, she has been the Second Lady of

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since 29 May 2015.Yahaya Balogun
Dolapo Osinbajo: A cultural icon!
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'', 10 July 2019. Accessed 16 May 2020.

Early life and career

Oludolapo Soyode was born on 16 July 1967, and grew up in

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.Yemi and Dolapo Osinbajo: The 30 Years Love Story
''This Day'', 30 November 2019. Accessed 16 May 2020. She attended the International School Ibadan. She is a granddaughter of

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, a Nigerian nationalist and

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chief, and his wife

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, through Awolowo's daughter Ayodele Soyode (née Awolowo), She married Yemi Osinbajo, a distant cousin, on 25 November 1989. In 1990 she was called to the

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. Dolapo Osinbajo is the

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of The Women's Helping Hand Initiative, a refuge facility in Epe, Lagos, established in 2014, and a co-founder of the Orderly Society Trust.

Activities as Second Lady

In September 2019 she presided at the 49th Benue Women in Prayer (BEWIP) Prayer Convocation in

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. She also inaugurated Mama Abyol Children’s Home and Benue Centre for Enterprise Development and Innovation (BENCEDI). In her speech to young people in

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, she warned them against attempting to copy illusory internet lifestyles. Speaking to out-of-school graduating girls in

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in December 2019, she encouraged them to live responsibly as good role models. She also characterised

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as an offence against humanity. In mid-December 2019 Nigeria's First Lady,

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, appointed Osinbajo – together with the wives of Nigerian state governors – as a 'champion' to lead the fight against

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in Nigeria.Nike Adebowale
Aisha Buhari names Dolapo Osinbajo, governors’ wives as TB champions
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'', 13 December 2019. Accessed 16 May 2020. In 2022 she made an official visit to the

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in Vienna.

Works

* ''They Call Me Mama: From the Under Bridge Diaries''. 2014.

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Osinbajo, Dolapo 1967 births Living people 20th-century Nigerian lawyers Nigerian women lawyers Nigerian women in politics Wives of national leaders Yoruba women in politics Awolowo family Yoruba women lawyers International School, Ibadan alumni