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Kofoworola Bucknor
Deputy Governor of Lagos State
In office
29 May 1999 – 16 December 2002
GovernorBola Tinubu
Succeeded byFemi Pedro
Senator for Lagos Central
In office
5 December 1992 – 17 November 1993
Succeeded byTokunbo Afikuyomi (1999)
Personal details
Born
Kofoworola Akerele

(1939-04-30) 30 April 1939 (age 85)
Lagos, British Nigeria (now Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria)
Political partyPeoples Democratic Party
Alma materUniversity of Surrey

Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele (born 30 April 1939) is a Nigerian politician and a former deputy governor of Lagos State.[1] She was the deputy governor to Bola Tinubu from 1999 to 2002.[2]

Early life

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Kofoworola Akerele was born on 30 April 1939, to Oni Akerele a prominent Nigerian activists and the first indigenous surgeon in Nigeria. She attended CMS Girls School Lagos before she travelled in 1949 to Surrey England for her Degree in Law.[3]

Career

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She got a diploma in Journalism in 1962, and worked as a freelance journalist for BBC and VON Magazine.[4] She became the deputy governor of Lagos State when Bola Tinubu became governor on 29 May 1999.

References

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  1. ^ "'The greatest lesson life has taught me at 70' -Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele". Encomium. 28 December 2015.
  2. ^ "PAST DEPUTY GOVERNORS OF LAGOS STATE". DEPUTY GOVERNOR, LAGOS STATE|DR KADRI OBAFEMI HAMZAT - Lagos State Government. Lagos State Government of Nigeria. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  3. ^ S. J. Timothy-Asobele (2004). The Producer of Our Time. Upper Standard Publications. ISBN 978-978-36946-6-8.
  4. ^ "They labelled me military mole in NADECO for nothing Bucknor Akerele". Vanguard Newspaper. Retrieved 16 July 2016.