Ameyo Adadevoh (born Ameyo Stella Shade Adadevoh; 27 October 1956 – 19 August 2014) was a Nigerian physician.

Her great-grandfather, Herbert Macaulay,[1] is one of the most celebrated founders of modern Nigeria. Her grandfather was from the illustrious Adadevoh family of the Volta Region of Ghana, to which she was very much connected, though she lived in Lagos. Her father was also a physician and former Vice chancellor of the University of Lagos.[2]

She is credited with having curbed a wider spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria by placing the patient zero, Patrick Sawyer, in quarantine despite pressures from the Liberian Government.[3][4] On 4 August 2014, it was confirmed that she tested positive for Ebola virus disease and was being treated.[5]

Adadevoh died in the afternoon of 19 August 2014.[6] She was posthumously praised for preventing the Nigerian index case from leaving the hospital at the time of diagnosis, thereby playing a key role in curbing the spread of the virus in Nigeria.

MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE

May her soul rest in Peace

May the soul of this brave woman reast in peace...
Just wondering what would have happened if she was not brave enough to hold that Patrick Suya of a man

Fading away like d stars of d morning, Only remembered by what u have done...

Noloss:
Fading away like d stars of d morning, Only rmember by what u have done...

Strong words sis almost brought me to tears,truly heroes and heroines are only remembered when they are gone,people only saw the greatness and good in her when she left,what an action!!! R.I.P to a great one...

Not only did she save Lagos, she saved the whole of Nigeria, and by extension, prevented an African catastrophe.

Emilokoiyawon:
Ameyo Adadevoh (born Ameyo Stella Shade Adadevoh; 27 October 1956 – 19 August 2014) was a Nigerian physician.
Her great-grandfather, Herbert Macaulay,[1] is one of the most celebrated founders of modern Nigeria. Her grandfather was from the illustrious Adadevoh family of the Volta Region of Ghana, to which she was very much connected, though she lived in Lagos. Her father was also a physician and former Vice chancellor of the University of Lagos.[2]
She is credited with having curbed a wider spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria by placing the patient zero, Patrick Sawyer, in quarantine despite pressures from the Liberian Government.[3][4] On 4 August 2014, it was confirmed that she tested positive for Ebola virus disease and was being treated.[5]
Adadevoh died in the afternoon of 19 August 2014.[6] She was posthumously praised for preventing the Nigerian index case from leaving the hospital at the time of diagnosis, thereby playing a key role in curbing the spread of the virus in Nigeria.
MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE

Yea I heard about her last year in the news. May her soul rest in peace

Yoruba-Ghanaian? Why not Yoruba-Igbo-Ghanaian? Her paternal great-grandmother was after all Nnamdi Azikiwe's father's sister.

Wulfruna:
Yoruba-Ghanaian? Why not Yoruba-Igbo-Ghanaian? Her paternal great-grandmother was after all Nnamdi Azikiwe's father's sister.

Please land grabber, this is not one of those threads for your nonsense. Move along, nwanyia, biko for your own good.

Emilokoiyawon:


Please land grabber, this is not one of those threads for your nonsense. Move along, nwanyia, biko for your own good.

Bwahahaha! I was even kidding around, like I sometimes do - just having fun.

But I was sure I would get at least one person riled up. And it worked on you.

By the way, I'm not Igbo if that's what 'land-grabber' means. Mind ya self there. *angry face*

If anybody is doing any 'grabbing' here it is you - calling a Ghanaian woman 'Yoruba' based on some distant connection to a Yoruba Lagosian, a connection that is as distant as her connection to the Igbos of Onitsha.

You doubt her Igbo connections? Read her Igbo relation Chief Chukwuma Azikiwe's words on this link:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-immortalise-adadevoh-says-azikiwe/

Read her biography here (pay attention to the 'Personal Life' section):

http://drasatrust.org/biography/

And Femi Fani-Kayode confirms her blood relationship to the Azikiwes here:

http://dailypost.ng/2014/08/24/femi-fani-kayode-ameyo-adadevoh-ebola-conspiracy/

Bottom line: She was Ghanaian. If you want to chip in her other ancestries, then the more honest thing would be to say she was Nigerian-Ghanaian.

Anyway sha, what's my own? I'm not here to play the pathetic game of dragging achievers with you losers [Igbo and Yoruba losers inclusive]. I only commented because I found the 'Yoruba-Ghanaian' tag hilarious!

Have a nice day.

'Land-grabber' indeed. Bwahahaha!

Wulfruna:


Bwahahaha! I was even kidding around, like I sometimes do - just having fun.

But I was sure I would get at least one person riled up. And it worked on you.

By the way, I'm not Igbo if that's what 'land-grabber' means. Mind ya self there. *angry face*

If anybody is doing any 'grabbing' here it is you - calling a Ghanaian woman 'Yoruba' based on some distant connection to a Yoruba Lagosian, a connection that is as distant as her connection to the Igbos of Onitsha.

You doubt her Igbo connections? Read her Igbo relation Chief Chukwuma Azikiwe's words on this link:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-immortalise-adadevoh-says-azikiwe/

Read her biography here (pay attention to the 'Personal Life' section):

http://drasatrust.org/biography/

And Femi Fani-Kayode confirms her blood relationship to the Azikiwes here:

http://dailypost.ng/2014/08/24/femi-fani-kayode-ameyo-adadevoh-ebola-conspiracy/

Bottom line: She was Ghanaian. If you want to chip in her other ancestries, then the more honest thing would be to say she was Nigerian-Ghanaian.

Anyway sha, what's my own? I'm not here to play the pathetic game of dragging achievers with you losers [Igbo and Yoruba losers inclusive]. I only commented because I found the 'Yoruba-Ghanaian' tag hilarious!

Have a nice day.

'Land-grabber' indeed. Bwahahaha!

Shut your dirty mouth there - I have exposed your lies and intentions. If you don't like my title why don't you create your own topic. Abi na by force to comment? Okay, go and hug transformer. As far as I am concerned she is a YORUBA-GHANAIAN - if it bothers you eat a schlong biko.

Emilokoiyawon:



Shut your dirty mouth there - I have exposed your lies and intentions. If you don't like my title why don't you create your own topic. Abi na by force to comment? Okay, go and hug transformer. As far as I am concerned she is a YORUBA-GHANAIAN - if it bothers you eat a schlong biko.

Hahahahaha! Which lies and intentions did you expose? Does it pain you that you have to share this one with your enemies across the Niger?

As far as I'm concerned she's NIGERIAN-GHANAiAN. In fact, no - she's Yoruba-Igbo-Ghanaian (because I know that one go pain you) - if it bothers you eat corrugated iron sheet, biko.

Wulfruna:


Bwahahaha! I was even kidding around, like I sometimes do - just having fun.

But I was sure I would get at least one person riled up. And it worked on you.

By the way, I'm not Igbo if that's what 'land-grabber' means. Mind ya self there. *angry face*

If anybody is doing any 'grabbing' here it is you - calling a Ghanaian woman 'Yoruba' based on some distant connection to a Yoruba Lagosian, a connection that is as distant as her connection to the Igbos of Onitsha.

You doubt her Igbo connections? Read her Igbo relation Chief Chukwuma Azikiwe's words on this link:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-immortalise-adadevoh-says-azikiwe/

Read her biography here (pay attention to the 'Personal Life' section):

http://drasatrust.org/biography/

And Femi Fani-Kayode confirms her blood relationship to the Azikiwes here:

http://dailypost.ng/2014/08/24/femi-fani-kayode-ameyo-adadevoh-ebola-conspiracy/

Bottom line: She was Ghanaian. If you want to chip in her other ancestries, then the more honest thing would be to say she was Nigerian-Ghanaian.

Anyway sha, what's my own? I'm not here to play the pathetic game of dragging achievers with you losers [Igbo and Yoruba losers inclusive]. I only commented because I found the 'Yoruba-Ghanaian' tag hilarious!

Have a nice day.

'Land-grabber' indeed. Bwahahaha!

Very smart answer. Youu hit the nail on the head. Late Dr. Ameyo is more Igbo than she is Yoruba given her just direct Igbo ancestry which is recent compared to some distant Yoruba ancestry from about 100 years ago. Frankly speaking, she is Half-ghanaian Half-Igbo, with her distant Yoruba ancestry coming from her paternal grandmother.

I studied genetics in the university and all children inherit the Mitochondrial DNA strictly from their mothers and females inherit an X chromosome directly from their mothers. Thus, Stella is approximately half-Igbo by blood, her Igbo ancestry coming directly from her mother. Maternal ancestry is determined solely by one's mother, back to one's grandmother, to the great-grandmother down to the very first female ancestor on that line using the very same Mt DNA. That is, had she been alive to go for a maternal ancestry test or if any of her sisters should take the MtDNA test, their maternal ancestry would turn out Igbo. On the other hand, a paternal ancestry test would trace her back to Ghana as the Y-DNA is passed down solely by males from grandfather, to father to son to grandson. In reality, one's paternal maternal ancestry is totally useless in the determination of one's ancestry by DNA testing, except the history is kept or told.

A DNA breakdown in percentages will show her to be 50% Igbo or more, and the remaining 50% shared between her Ghanaian and Yoruba ancestries, say 35:15 respectively. The lady is more Igbo by blood than she is Yoruba.

This reminds me of a so-called 'Yoruba' lady on this forum (minifonwon) with father from Ijebu-Igbo and mother from Umuahia who did her chromosomal DNA testing in percentages and the result turned out to be 65% Igbo, 25% Yoruba and 10% Fulani or Hausa.

I mean, who determines one's ancestry by one's paternal grandmother while sidelining one's direct ancestry from their mother's side?

The proper title of the thread should be Half-Nigerian, Half-Ghanaian or more specifically, 'Half-Akan, Half-Igbo doctor'.

Emilokoiyawon:



Shut your dirty mouth there - I have exposed your lies and intentions. If you don't like my title why don't you create your own topic. Abi na by force to comment? Okay, go and hug transformer. As far as I am concerned she is a YORUBA-GHANAIAN - if it bothers you eat a schlong biko.

If you are not ready for the truth don't start something you cannot handle. Stella is half Igbo, 35% Ghanaian, 15% Yoruba. There is no gain-saying the fact. She is more of Igbo than she is Yoruba. Learn to handle the truth as a mature adult with capable sensibilities.

bigfrancis21:


Very smart answer. Youu hit the nail on the head. Late Dr. Ameyo is more Igbo than she is Yoruba given her just direct Igbo ancestry which is recent compared to some distant Yoruba ancestry over 100 years ago. Frankly speaking, she is Half-ghanaian Half-Igbo, with her distant Yoruba ancestry coming from her paternal grandmother.

I studied genetics in the university and all children inherit the Mitochondrial DNA from their mothers and females inherit an X chromosome directly from their mothers. Thus, Stella is approximately half-Igbo by blood, coming directly from her mother. Maternal ancestry is determined solely by one's mother, back to her grandmother, to the great-grandmother down to the very first female ancestor on that line using the very same Mt DNA. That is, had she been alive to go for a maternal ancestry test or any of her sisters takes the test, their maternal ancestry would turn out Igbo. A DNA breakdown in percentages will show her to be 50% Igbo, and the remaining 50% shared between her Ghanaian and Yoruba ancestries, say 35:15 respectively. The lady is more Igbo by blood than she is Yoruba.

This reminds me of a so-called 'Yoruba' lady on this forum (minifonwon) with father from Ijebu-Igbo and mother from Umuahia who did her DNA testing and the result turned out to be 65% Igbo, 25% Yoruba and 10% Fulani or Hausa.

I mean, who determines one's ancestry by one's paternal grandmother while sidelining one's direct ancestry from their mother's side?

The proper title of the thread should be Half-Nigerian, Half-Ghanaian or more specifically, 'Half-Akan, Half-Igbo doctor'.

Haba, bros.

Her Yoruba and Igbo descents are of equal distance na.

Great-grandfather = Herbert Macaulay (late 19th century to mid 20th century)
Great-grandmother = Okwuegbunam neé Azikiwe (lived about the same time as Herbert Macaulay)

How come then she is more Igbo? You and the guy I've been attacking na just the same kind of person - just on different sides.

Let's call the blessed woman Ghanaian or Nigerian-Ghanaian, if we must, and be done with it abeg.

Wulfruna:


Haba, bros.

Her Yoruba and Igbo descents are of equal distance na.

Great-grandfather = Herbert Macaulay (late 19th century to mid 20th century)
Great-grandmother = Okwuegbunam neé Azikiwe (lived about the same time as Herbert Macaulay)

How come then she is more Igbo? You and the guy I've been attacking na just the same kind of person - just on different sides.

Let's call the blessed woman Ghanaian or Nigerian-Ghanaian, if we must, and be done with it abeg.

Family inconsolable

“I have reached the mother, Deborah, who is somewhat managing under this tragic circumstances.I spoke to Mrs Kate Aniadi, nee MacIntosh, Deborah’s sister and Ameyo’s aunt who had not stopped wailing and screaming up to the time I put off my phone. I am in regular contact with Dr Andrew MacIntosh, Deborah’s brother and Ameyo’s uncle.”

Family relationship

“Her mother, Mrs Deborah Adadevoh, is my cousin. Deborah’s grandmother, Okwuegbunam (nee Azikiwe) is the immediate senior sister, same father same mother, of Obed Azikiwe, Zik’s father”.
Ameyo’s father, late Professor Kwakwu Adedavoh, was the grandson of Herbert Macauley. Kwakwu’s mother was Herbert Macauley’s daughter. That made Ameyo Herbert Macauley’s great grand daughter. Professor Adedavoh was a medical doctor who taught at University College Hospital, Ibadan, Lagos University and was Director-General Nigerin Institute for Medical Research Yaba.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/ebola-immortalise-adadevoh-says-azikiwe/#sthash.Snf8NCmo.dpuf

I was only going by the link to the article that you posted, which I have reposted above for your reading convenience. Maybe you did not read the article clearly. Stella's grandmother was Igbo and the one directly related to Nnamdi Azikiwe, making her mother, Deborah, Igbo (i.e assuming Deborah's father was Igbo too). If Deborah's father isn't Igbo, Stella still carries a MtDNA from her Igbo line by way of her mother, Deborah, who in turn got her MtDNA from her mother, Okwuegbunam nee Azikiwe and so on down her Igbo maternal line.

Stella's grandmother was full-blooded Igbo, thus making Stella's mother (Deborah) Igbo herself or at least half-Igbo on her mom's side. And of course, we already know that maternal ancestry strictly follows one's direct maternal line and not by one's paternal grandmother's line.

Thus in effect, Stella's Igbo genetic distance is way shorter than her Yoruba genetic distance. While her Yoruba paternal grandmother's ancestry will not show up on both the Y-DNA and MtDNA tests, as it also is for African Americans undergoing genetic testing to find out their ancestries, her Igbo ancestry will easily show up under her MtDNA test. However, an Autosomal Chromosome DNA test will reveal her tribal genetic composition in percentages.

By the way, I am not claiming anybody. I am not wont to open silly threads like this claiming irrelevant stuff or trying to downplay the genetic contribution of one tribe simply because I am not mature enough too handle the truth. I AM ONLY STATING FACTS AS THEY ARE. Since the OP has opened his sores bare, he should be ready for the infestation of fruit flies swarming in on it.

Mitochondrial inheritance

The transmission of the mitochondrial genome from mother to child.

Mitochondria contain their own set of genes which are chiefly involved in metabolic processes. This is in addition to the genes in the cell's nucleus.

Alterations in the mitochondrial DNA cause several well recognised disorders, often associated with neuromuscular features. Because of how mitochondria are inherited, conditions due to a mutation in mitochondrial DNA show a very particular pattern of inheritance.

Mitochondria are inherited only in the maternal ova and not in sperm. Therefore, a pattern of inheritance associated with alterations in mitochondrial DNA gives a pattern of the condition affecting males and females, but always being maternally inherited. An affected male does not pass on his mitochondria to his children, so all his children will be unaffected. This is called mitochondrial (sometimes matrilineal) inheritance.

It is known that there are some mitochondrial conditions associated with incorrectly functioning mitochondria where the mutation is not in the mitochondrial DNA, but in genes in the cell nucleus that control functions in the mitochondria. It is therefore possible for a mitochondrial condition not to show mitochondrial inheritance but to show Mendelian inheritance.

http://www.geneticseducation.nhs.uk/genetic-glossary/212-mitochondrial-inheritance

This chart demonstrates mtDNA inheritance. Squares represent men. Circles represent women. Red represents those with mtDNA inherited from the women at the top of the chart. Mitochondrial or mtDNA tests trace the lineage from mother to child; mtDNA tests can be performed on a male or female subject, but only a woman passes mtDNA to the next generation; the test can be performed on a person of any generation of the lineage without significantly affecting the test results.

http://debbiewayne.com/presentations/mtdna.php

LOL, the book of genetic-records has been opened, it is time to confirm the apparent truth with latent science, glory be to details. R.I.P Adadevoh, Ghanian-Nigerian heroine of a kind.

bigfrancis21:


If you are not ready for the truth don't start something you cannot handle. Stella is half Igbo, 35% Ghanaian, 15% Yoruba. There is no gain-saying the fact. She is more of Igbo than she is Yoruba. Learn to handle the truth as a mature adult with capable sensibilities.

bia smallfrancis this thing is very easy but you are making it hard for yourself. I created a topic to celebrate this woman's Yoruba/Ghanaian connection. Rather than continue with your shameless chest beating on a page that is meant to honor a life well lived, create your own topic to celebrate her Igbo (or Biafran or whatever you this new breed of Igbos call yourselves these days) connection. So kindly take your ashewo girlfriend and create your own topic. No amount of Mitochondria/DNA internet copy and paste can hide your lack of decorum and decency. My title still reads and remains Yoruba-Ghanaian if you don't like it eat a schlong biko just like that ashewo before you.

Wulfruna:


Hahahahaha! Which lies and intentions did you expose? Does it pain you that you have to share this one with your enemies across the Niger?

As far as I'm concerned she's NIGERIAN-GHANAiAN. In fact, no - she's Yoruba-Igbo-Ghanaian (because I know that one go pain you) - if it bothers you eat corrugated iron sheet, biko.

See this ashewo with no self esteem. Her sense of self is so wack that her profile pic is the image of a dead white celebrity. I guess this one has been brainwashed by the colonial masters. Ashewo WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE PARAGON OF BEAUTY - stop embarrassing your family. She is probably one of those mofos who bleach their skin to look white - what an animal

YORUBA-GHANAIAN If it pains you die already.

Emilokoiyawon:



bia smallfrancis this thing is very easy but you are making it hard for yourself. I created a topic to celebrate this woman's Yoruba/Ghanaian connection. Rather than continue with your shameless chest beating on a page that is meant to honor a life well lived, create your own topic to celebrate her Igbo (or Biafran or whatever you this new breed of Igbos call yourselves these days) connection. So kindly take your ashewo girlfriend and create your own topic. No amount of Mitochondria/DNA internet copy and paste can hide your lack of decorum and decency. My title still reads and remains Yoruba-Ghanaian if you don't like it eat a schlong biko just like that ashewo before you.

Well the thread you created is false as it creates a false impression about the woman's ancestry.

Thanks to objective-reasoning peeps like Wulfruna and I. We are here to give you a hard run for your money.

You have sorely been inundated with more facts than necessary that all you can do now is live in delusion of the truth.

I expected that you tackle my facts directly but 'smartly' ignored medical facts to continue to live in your delusion.

Dr. Stella's Igbo blood is probably the driving force behind her success as a doctor. Oh thank ye lawd that she gat Igbo blood running in her.

Keep it coming baby boy.

Emilokoiyawon:


See this ashewo with no self esteem. Her sense of self is so wack that her profile pic is the image of a dead white celebrity. I guess this one has been brainwashed by the colonial masters. Ashewo WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE PARAGON OF BEAUTY - stop embarrassing your family. She is probably one of those mofos who bleach their skin to look white - what an animal

YORUBA-GHANAIAN If it pains you die already.

@bold...that is unnecessary. Keep your points objective and vain-free.

Emilokoiyawon:


See this ashewo with no self esteem. Her sense of self is so wack that her profile pic is the image of a dead white celebrity. I guess this one has been brainwashed by the colonial masters. Ashewo WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE PARAGON OF BEAUTY - stop embarrassing your family. She is probably one of those mofos who bleach their skin to look white - what an animal

YORUBA-GHANAIAN If it pains you die already.

This rant amused me very much. Please, come back with more. I can do with some entertainment.

How old are you anyway - nine?

Wulfruna:


This rant amused me very much. Please, come back with more. I can do with some entertainment.

How old are you anyway - nine?

He/she reasons like a child. 8 should be their age.

bigfrancis21:


Well the thread you created is false as it creates a false impression about the woman's ancestry.

Thanks to objective-reasoning peeps like Wulfruna and I. We are here to give you a hard run for your money.

We've inundated you with more facts than necessary that all you can do now is live in delusion of the truth.

Her half-Igbo blood is the driving force behind her success as a doctor. Oh thank ye lawd that she gat Igbo blood running in her.

Keep it coming baby boy.

See the bolded above - coming from someone who lays claim to objective-reasoning I here I was thinking that, while your are not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, you are at least not entirely a dummy. Alas you are a dunce of no consequence. From now henceforth I will reply you in the only language dumbdumbs like you understand - quote me to find out what language that is. Face in palm.

bigfrancis21:


@bold...that is unnecessary. Keep your points objective and vain-free.

Oh, no no. Leave the kid. I'm entertained - aren't you?

Nothing pleases me like when dummies run out of smart things to say and then go full ret.ard and begin to spurt donkey poo, helplessly. Leave him, biko!

Emilokoiyawon:


See the bolded above - coming from someone who lays claim to objective-reasoning I here I was thinking that, while your are not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, you are at least not entirely a dummy. Alas you are a dunce of no consequence. From now henceforth I will reply you in the only language dumbdumbs like you understand - quote me to find out what language that is. Face in palm.

@bold...Exactly! I'm giving you a hard run for your money.

You started the yoruba-ghanaian game right? Well, let us play the game.

Round 1 has just begun.

Dr. Stella Nwakamma Adedevoh, half-ghanaian and half Igbo from Onitsha, was an iconic figure in the curb of the spread of Ebola in Nigeria. She shall forever be remembered in our hearts.

Emilokoiyawon:

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That's all you can do, baby boy?

Dr. Stella Adadevoh, nwa ada Igbo! Ada eji eje mba!

Her facial looks Igbo. Her dressing style Igbo. Everything about her Igbo.

Oh chi m!



[img]http://druginterface.files./2014/08/wpid-bvb0s8qiyaa9uss-large.jpg[/img]

Native Igbo Women Clothing:

[img]http://ndebe.files./2009/08/igbo-wedding-pictures-7.jpg[/img]

Wulfruna:


Oh, no no. Leave the kid. I'm entertained - aren't you?

Nothing pleases me like when dummies run out of smart things to say and then go full ret.ard and begin to spurt donkey poo, helplessly. Leave him, biko!

I'm totally flushed with entertainment. I'm laughing right here at my office desk.

Abeg make my oga no comot for office see as I dey amused with laughter for here.