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Small doctor nko?

You rate the. Based on what

You didn’t say anything about the greatest of them all, Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh whose ultimate sacrifice has probably made it possible for u to post this today?

dynicks:
Dr Sid

soberdrunk:
Dr Sikiru Ayinde Barrister......

WHY ONLY YORUBA IN THE LIST ?

Abi na only yoloba dokita we get am for Negeria !

SamOyovwi:
I only know the doctor that sacrificed her life for the cause of Nigeria from Ebola

and she was not from the west. Very stupid list the west lost its educational advantage before the civil war and had currently lost it again 35 years after the civil war.

olisaEze:
You didn’t say anything about the greatest of them all, Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh whose ultimate sacrifice has probably made it possible for u to post this today?

Spot on.

OK...time to bring some sanity to this thread, since it has become Ibo vs Yoruba...

1.Dr Latunde Odeku(1927-1984)

Medical career

After passing the Licencuate Medical exam of Canada, Latunde spent the following year in Nigeria as a medical officer at the Lagos General Hospital. In 1961, he returned to the United States and was offered a residency position, training under Dr. Kahn (from 1956 to 1960) at the University of Michigan. Afterwards, he trained in Neurology under Dr. Webb Haymaker at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C . He subsequently underwent another pediatric neurosurgery residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia under Dr. Eugene Spitz, creator of the Spitz-Holter valve for treating hydrocephalus. In 1961, he was appointed Instructor of Neuroanatomy and Neurosurgery at the College of Medicine, Howard University.

Although Latunde was subsequently offered multiple appointments including two distinguished academic neurosurgery faculty positions in the United States; however, he chose to return to Nigeria. Latunde came to the University of Ibadan in 1962 as the first neurosurgeon of West Africa. In 1962, he was appointed as senior faculty and became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In 1965, he was appointed as a Professor of Neurosurgery; from 1968 to 1971, serving as the head of the Department of Surgery and the Dean of the University of Ibadan College of Medicine. He also established the National and West African Postgraduate Medical Colleges and the initiation processes at the University of Ibadan College of Medicine, presently performed in all Nigerian medical schools.[10][11][12]

Latunde was also a poet and writer: He made significant contributions to the neurosurgical literature, publishing 61 scientific articles over a period of about 12 years.

Latunde was awarded the Howard University alumni award for a distinguished service. (wikipedia)

Bennet Omalu
Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu (born September 1968[1]) is a Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players while working at the Allegheny County coroner's office in Pittsburgh.[2] He later became the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, California, and is a professor at the University of California, Davis, department of medical pathology and laboratory medicine.

Early life

Omalu was born in Nnokwa, Idemili South, Anambra in southeastern Nigeria on September 30, 1968,[1] the sixth of seven siblings. He was born during the Nigerian Civil War, which caused his family to flee from their home in the predominantly Igbo village of Enugu-Ukwu in southeastern Nigeria. They returned two years after Omalu's birth.[3] Omalu's mother was a seamstress and his father a civil mining engineer and community leader in Enugu-Ukwu. The family name, Omalu, is a shortened form of the surname, Onyemalukwube, which translates to "he who knows, speak."[3]
Education and career

Omalu began primary school at age three and earned entrance into the Federal Government College Enugu for secondary school. He attended medical school starting at age 16 at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. After graduation with a bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery (MBBS) in June 1990, he completed a clinical internship, followed by three years of service work doctoring in the highland city of Jos. He became disillusioned with Nigeria after presidential candidate Moshood Abiola failed to win the Nigerian presidency during an inconclusive election in 1993[3] and began to search for scholarship opportunities in the United States. Omalu first came to Seattle, Washington in 1994 to complete an epidemiology fellowship at the University of Washington. In 1995, he left Seattle for New York City, where he joined Columbia University's Harlem Hospital Center for a residency training program in anatomic and clinical pathology.

Before residency, he trained as a forensic pathologist under noted forensic consultant Cyril Wecht at the Allegheny County coroner's office in Pittsburgh. Omalu became particularly interested in neuropathology.

Omalu holds eight advanced degrees and board certifications, later receiving fellowships in pathology and neuropathology through the University of Pittsburgh in 2000 and 2002 respectively, a master of public health (MPH) in epidemiology in 2004 from University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, and a master of business administration (MBA) from Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in 2008.[4][5]

Omalu served as chief medical examiner of San Joaquin County, California from 2007 until he resigned in 2017 after accusing the county's sheriff, who doubles as coroner, of repeatedly interfering with death investigations to protect law enforcement officers who killed people.[6] An assistant forensic pathologist who joined the office for the opportunity to work with Omalu resigned a few days earlier citing similar allegations.[7]

Omalu is a professor in the UC Davis department of medical pathology and laboratory medicine(Wikipedia)

Africanus Horton

Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, was a Krio African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Africanus Horton was a surgeon, scientist, soldier, and a political thinker who worked toward African independence a century before it occurred. In his varied career, he served as a physician, an officer in the British Army, a banker, and a mining entrepreneur. In addition, he wrote a number of books and essays, the most widely remembered of which is his 1868 Vindication of the African Race, an answer to the white racist authors emerging in Europe. His writings look ahead to African self-government, anticipating many events of the 1950s and 1960s, and Horton is often seen as one of the founders of African nationalism and has been called "the father of modern African political thought".[1]

He wrote a book entitled West African Countries and Peoples (1868). A crater on Mercury is named after him.[2]
Contents

1 Life
1.1 Politics and writings
2 Personal life
3 References
4 Sources
5 Further reading

Life

Horton was born in the village of Gloucester, close to Freetown in British Sierra Leone. He was born James Horton[3] in 1835 to the family James Horton; his father was a recaptive slave of Igbo ancestry. Horton began his studies at a local school in Gloucester and in 1845, he was recruited by Reverend James Beale to attend CMS Grammar School.[3] Thereafter, he moved to Fourah Bay Institution (later Fourah Bay College)[4] to study divinity in the hope of becoming a clergyman.[3] In 1855, along with William Davies and Samuel Campbell, he received a British War Office scholarship to study medicine in Great Britain. He studied at King's College London and Edinburgh University, qualifying as a medical doctor in 1859. While a student, he took the name "Africanus" as an emblem of pride in his African homeland.[5] He published his dissertation, The Medical Topography of the West Coast of Africa, in 1858. Upon completion of his studies at Edinburgh, he was commissioned as an officer in the British Army and was made a Staff Assistant Surgeon becoming one of the earliest Africans in the officer cadre of the British Army. When he returned to Sierra Leone, he was posted to service in Ghana in the West India Regiment. In his army career, he was posted to various locations within the British colony, including Lagos, the Gambia, Sierra Leone and Ghana.[6] (Wikipedia)

N.B He was Nigerian, Igbo, Sierra Leonean and above all, an African.

soberdrunk:
Dr Sikiru Ayinde Barrister......

What?

Sir Francis Akanu Ibiam KCMG KBE (29 November 1906 - 1 July 1995) was a distinguished medical missionary who was appointed Governor of Eastern Region, Nigeria from December 1960 until January 1966 during the Nigerian First Republic.[1] From 1919 to 1951, he was known as Francis Ibiam, and from 1951 to 1967, Sir Francis Ibiam.
Contents

1 Early years
2 Nigerian Civil War
3 Later years
4 See also
5 References

Early years

Ibiam was born in Unwana, Afikpo, Ebonyi State on 29 November 1906, of Igbo background. He was the second son of Chief Ibiam Aka, a traditional ruler of Unwana.[2] He later became traditional ruler, Eze Ogo Isiala I of Unwana and Osuji of Uburu. He attended Hope Waddell Training Institute, Calabar, and King's College, Lagos, and then was admitted to the University of St. Andrews, graduating with a medical degree in 1934. He was accepted as a medical missionary of the Church of Scotland, in which role he established Abiriba hospital (1936–1945) and later superintended mission hospitals at Itu and Uburu.[3]

Ibiam was never ordained as a minister, but he was elected and ordained as an elder of the Presbyterian Church.[2] He was appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1949 New Year Honours for his work as a medical missionary of the Church of Scotland, and was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1951 New Year Honours, which was later made substantive.[4][5][6] Ibiam was president of the Christian Council of Nigeria (1955–1958). In 1957 he was appointed principal of Hope Waddell Institution.[3] In 1959 Ibiam was president of the University College of Ibadan. On a visit to Northern Rhodesia, he was refused service at a café reserved for whites, an affair that became notorious.[6] In 1962, he was chairman of the committee that established the Protestant Chapel at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka Campus.[7]

In the lead-up to Nigerian independence Ibiam served in local government, in the Eastern Regional House of Assembly, and in the Legislative and Executive Councils.

After Nigeria gained independence in 1960, Ibiam was appointed governor of Eastern Region. On 24 August 1962, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG).[8] Ibiam held office until the military coup of 15 January 1966 that brought Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi to power.[3] His authoritarian successor, colonel Emeka Ojukwu, immediately ejected Ibiam from the State House in Enugu. Later, Emeka became president of the breakaway state of Biafra.[9]
Nigerian Civil War

During the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 – 1970, Ibiam actively assisted the Biafrans, helping obtain relief supplies through his church contacts. As one of the six presidents of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Ibiam spoke at the WCC Meeting in Upsalla, Sweden in July 1968 where the problem of relief for refugees was discussed. Chief Bola Ige, Adviser to the Church of the Province of West Africa was also present, and ensured that the name "Biafra" was avoided in the WCC resolution, since that would imply recognition of the state. However, Ibiam was instrumental in ensuring that the nightly air lift of relief into Biafra was started.[10] In 1969, he travelled across Canada to raise humanitarian aid and support for the people of Biafra. Ibiam returned his knighthood and renounced his English name, Francis, in protest against the British government's support of the Nigerian federal government.

(WIKIPEDIA)

N.B

1.During his student days, Sir Ibiam was scouted actively by Rangers FC of Glasglow. Yes....THE RANGERS FC. Back when blacks were not that common in British football.

Dr Oguntola Sapara.

Early life and education

Oguntola Sapara was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone on 9 June 1861 and named Alexander Johnson Williams. His father was a liberated slave from Ilesa in Western Nigeria, and his mother was from Egbaland. His brother was Christopher Sapara Williams, who became a prominent Nigerian lawyer.

His family moved to Lagos Colony in 1876, where he attended the Lagos Church Missionary Society Grammar School until 1878. He became an apprentice to a Lagos printer early in 1879, working there for three years.

He served as an assistant dispenser at the Colonial Hospital for three years before founding his own dispensary in Ghana. Sapara travelled to London, England and entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1888, where he gained honours in midwifery. Whilst in London Sapara put himself at the disposal of Ida B Wells during her second anti-lynching campaign in the UK (1894), and joined with her at Mrs P W Clayden's home (wife to editor of the London Daily News) to mail out copies of English press coverage of Ida's tour to the US President, statesmen, churchmen and newspaper men of the US ('Crusade for Justice' Ida B Wells Autobiography, Chapter 26). Moving to Scotland, in 1895 he obtained the L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S. of the University of Edinburgh, the L.F.P.S. of the University of Glasgow and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Health.[1]
Medical career

Sapara returned to the Lagos colony. In January 1896 he was appointed an Assistant Colonial Surgeon. He served continuously in different stations for the next thirty-two years. Sapara made many contributions to improving public health. He fought for slum clearance, organised a society for scientifically training midwives, organised the first public dispensary in 1901, and identified causes of an epidemic of tuberculosis in 1918, which included overcrowding, poor ventilation and public ignorance about hygiene.

He was Chairman of the Health Week Committee, leading the successful fight against bubonic plague, which struck Lagos in 1924.[1]

In Nigeria at that time, numerous secret societies, such as the "Sopona" cult of the Yoruba people, had power. Sometimes they tried to blackmail people, threatening that if an individual did not pay money, the society would make him become ill and die.

When a victim refused, a member would infect him with smallpox through applying scrapings of the skin rash of smallpox cases. To keep their powers, the societies resisted public health efforts for vaccination. Sapara joined the cult incognito, at considerable personal risk. When he had learned the secret of their power, he helped the government prepare legislation to ban the societies.[2]

In the later part of his career, Sapara ran the Massey Street dispensary, serving most of Lagos. He persuaded the government to convert the dispensary into the Massey Street Hospital, opened by Governor Graeme Thomson in 1926.

Sapara took a special interest in traditional herbal medicines, and spent much time in scientific investigation of their effects.[1] His efforts against some of the cults notwithstanding, he was a keen student of traditional Yoruba culture. He defended it at just about every opportunity.[3]

Sapara retired in 1928. He died in Lagos in June 1935.[1] The famous Jùjú musician Tunde King played at his wake.[4]
Discrimination and politics

As an African, Sapara faced some discrimination. In a report to the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, Sapara noted that European medical officers were uncomfortable when ranked below African doctors, and in a 1901 conference some had described this as an "indignity".[5] African medical officers were also paid less than their European colleagues.[6] When W.H. Langley, principal medical officer in Nigeria, was asked about expanding the scope of work for African doctors, he responded by attacking their professionalism; in Sapara's case, he brought up the fact that Sapara had allowed clerks to take longer sick leaves than was allowed by government policy.[7]

While visiting London in 1912, Sapara gave financial assistance to the struggling Pan-Africanist African Times and Orient Review published by Dusé Mohamed Ali.[8] Sapara was on the list of invitees from West Africa to the 4th Pan-African Congress, held in New York in 1924, although he may not have attended.
(WIKIPEDIA)

Nice..... written History

R.A.B. Dikko (1912–1977) was a Nigerian doctor who was a former federal commissioner for Mines and Power and was the first medical doctor from Northern Region, Nigeria"[1]
Life

Russel Aliyu Barau Dikko was born in Wusasa, Zaria, a location where Christianity was allowed to flourish in the muslim dominated Zaria emirate".[2] The Christian missionaries were led by a Walter Miller, a young Church Missionary Society missionary doctor, the missionaries built a school, church and hospital in Wusasa. Dikko attended the CMS elementary school in Wusasa and later went to King's College "[3] He then continued his studies at the University of Birmingham.

After finishing his studies, he returned to Nigeria and joined the colonial service as a junior medical officer in 1940. He gradually rose through the ranks of the civil service, becoming a senior medical officer in 1953 and a principal medical officer in the endemic disease division of the Northern Nigeria Ministry of Health in 1960. During the regime of Gen Yakubu Gowon, he was appointed as the Federal Commissioner for Mines and Power in 1967 and Federal Commissioner for Transport in 1971.

Dikko was a founding member of Jamiyar Mutanen Arewa, a Northern Nigeria cultural organization that later formed the nucleus of the Northern People's Congress".[4] He was educated by the Christian missionary Walter Miller and later married Miller's daughter, Comfort.

WIKIPEDIA.

Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi
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Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi

MBE, OFR
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Born 1910
Lagos
Died 14 September 1971 (aged 60–61)
Nationality Nigerian
Alma mater

Queen's College, Lagos
University of Dublin

Occupation Physician
Known for

First woman to practise medicine in Nigeria
Empowerment of women in Nigeria

Relatives

S. O. Awoliyi (husband)
Olatunji Awoliyi (son)

Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi, MBE, OFR (née Akerele, 1910–14 September 1971) was the first female physician to practice in Nigeria.[1] She was also the first West African woman to earn a license of Royal Surgeon in Dublin.[1][2] In 1938, Elizabeth Awoliyi became the second West African woman to qualify as an orthodox-medicine trained physician after Agnes Yewande Savage who graduated from medical school in 1929.[3] She was the second president of the National Council of Women's Societies of Nigeria from 1964 until her death in 1971.[4]
Contents

1 Life
1.1 NCWS
1.2 Leadership and philanthropy[2]
2 Personal life
3 Awards and honours
4 References
5 Sources

Life

She was born in Lagos to the family of David and Rufina Akerele.[1] She commenced her education at St. Mary's Catholic School, Lagos from where she proceeded to Queen's College, Lagos.[5] She earned her medical degree in 1938 from the University of Dublin, Cafreys College.[6][7][8] She graduated from Dublin with first class honors, including a medal in Medicine and distinction in Anatomy. She became the first West African woman to be awarded a licentiate of Royal Surgeon in Dublin.[1][2] She was a member of the Royal College of Physicians (United Kingdom) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology and a Diplomate of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.[1][2]

She returned to Nigeria and became a gynaecologist and junior medical officer at the Massey Street Hospital Lagos. She later became a chief consultant and Medical Director at that hospital, holding the latter position from 1960 through 1969.[2] Also, the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria appointed her as a senior specialist gynaecologist and obstetrician in 1962.[2]

Some of her awards are: Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), Iya Abiye of Lagos, Iyalaje of Oyo Empire, and Nigerian National Honor – Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).[2]

The novel Return to Life, by her son Tunji Awoliyi, is dedicated to her.[9]

She is mentioned in "Chapter Six: Nigerian Heroines of the 20th Century" in the book Nigerian heroes and heroines: and other issues in citizenship education, by Godwin Chukwuemeka Ezeh.[10]

Dr. Abimbola Awoliyi Memorial Hospital is located in Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria.[11]

Elizabeth Awoliyi dabbled in private enterprise – owning a 27- acre poultry and orange farm in Agege, Lagos and becoming director of the commercial medical store in Lagos.[2]
NCWS

Elizabeth Awoliyi was the pioneer president of the Lagos branch of the National Council of Women Societies and a member of the national committee of the organization.[12] As a member, she contributed to various policies and activities of the women's organization. She negotiated for the gift of a national headquarters located at Tafawa Balewa Square and was a consultant to the organization's family planning clinic which later became the planned parenthood federation of Nigeria.[12] She succeeded Kofo Ademola as the second president of the NCWS in 1964.
Leadership and philanthropy[2]

Holy Cross Cathedral Lagos, where she became the first president of the Holy Cross Parish Women Council.
Motherless babies Home Governing Council
Business and Professional Women’s Association (president)
Child Care Voluntary Association (President)
Lagos Colony Red Cross
National Council of Women’s Society (Also became the first President of the Lagos branch)

Personal life

Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi was married to physician, Dr. S.O. Awoliyi and had two children; a son and a daughter.[2] Her husband died in 1965. Dr Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi died on 14 September 1971, she was 61 years old.[2]

WIKIPEDIA.

Note; she was the first female doctor of Nigerian descent to practice in Nigeria...mind.

Why so bitter? Who send your people to be busy selling drugs when yoruba people were getting educated?

DonTattaglia:
Rubbish list, lopsided towards one ethnic group. Many renowned doctors with more international recognition and impact from several tribes are missing. Abeg throw this list away!! Tribalism is always in u peoples blood in everything u do, Afonja will always be Afonja...

small doctor nko? ....his hain! hain!! hain!! alone alone has saved so many lifes!!!

thesicilian:
There's no common benchmark for rating people in different specialties in the field of medicine (or any other field for that matter). These people come from different backgrounds, trainings and even generations, with different working conditions and objectives.
It's not like in sports that you can rate players based on number of goals scored or trophies won.

I totally disagree.

There are benchmarks to rate ppl in every profession..not just Sports. It can happen in music, medicine, health, engineering, exploration, science and more. It all boils down to spectacular contributions ppl make in their chosen professions.

People make postulation, theorems and theories that have recorded them as being the best in their area of specialisation.

If I have to agree to your claim, we wouldn't have had people like Alex Grahambell(telephone) Einstein, Christopher Columbus or the Socrates and Aristotle's.

We have Ben Carson etc to mention but just a few.

DonTattaglia:
Rubbish list, lopsided towards one ethnic group. Many renowned doctors with more international recognition and impact from several tribes are missing. Abeg throw this list away!! Tribalism is always in u peoples blood in everything u do, Afonja will always be Afonja...

bring your list make we see

DonTattaglia:
Rubbish list, lopsided towards one ethnic group. Many renowned doctors with more international recognition and impact from several tribes are missing. Abeg throw this list away!! Tribalism is always in u peoples blood in everything u do, Afonja will always be Afonja...

your father

The greatest doctor ever is DR. CIROMA CHUKWUMA ADEKUNLE.





A DOCTOR OF WAEC

VirginSearcher:
If being a doctor/nurse is not your calling, and you force yourself into the profession forget it u'll be pure quack

lmao. No pure killer

where is renowned Dr. Nnanna Ukaegbu? Nonsense and tribalistic list.
If you had said the the first 3 medical doctors in Nigeria, it would have been better than to say the best medical doctors in history of Nigeria.
clueless and baseless

The mischievous intent of the creator of this thread has been achieved... Op, clap for yourself!!!

What nonsense.
Probably the greatest doctors in Yoruba land.

I can list at least three Igbo doctors that are more internationally renown than these fellows.

The op means the most famous doctors from Nigeria.

There are many doctors working quietly in unknown rural areas or cities who are also good.

PublicHealthNig:

The medical profession has been from time immemorial, and universally, it still remains the most learned and the noble amongst the original learned profession. Listed among the primary 3 learned profession physician, scribe (Lawyer) and the priest (Clerics). The profession was the doyen of all other professions in the pre-colonial Nigeria. In fact, at that period, the medical profession was at the frontline before the emergence of, and growth of some other professions in Nigeria. Africanus Horton, together with his colleague, William Davies, were the first Nigerians to qualify as medical doctors' when they simultaneously gained the M.R.C.S. of England at King's College, London, in 1858. On the other hand, Oguntola Sapara, who obtained the L.R.C.P. and S. of Edinburgh in 1895, was the last and eighth Nigerian to qualify in medicine in the nineteenth century. Between 1858 and 1895, five other Nigerians graduated in medicine, namely Nathaniel King (1874), Obadiah Johnson (1884), John Randle (1888), Orisadipe Obasa (1891) and Akinsiku Leigh-Sodipe (1892). In this article we celebrate the life, times and achievements of Nigerians greatest doctors and their contributions to the sustenance of life and the growth of public health practice.

Dr. Isaac Ladipo Oluwole

Isaac Ladipo Oluwole was born in 1892 to Bishop Isaac Oluwole. Ladipo is the first Nigerian Medical Officer of Health for the Lagos Colony, recognized as the father of public health in Nigeria. He enrolled as a medical student at the University of Glasgow in 1913 and graduated in 1918. Before entering the colonial civil service on his return to Nigeria, he had established himself as a private Medical practitioner at Abeokuta. Ladipo started the first School of Hygiene in Nigeria, at Yaba in Lagos, in 1920.
With the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1924, Ladipo revamped port health Duties and made sanitary inspection a vital instrument for the control of communicable diseases using entirely the Nigerian sanitary inspectors. The first school health services in Nigeria started the following year. Ladipo is remembered for pioneering school healthy services with school inspections and the vaccination of children. He died in 1953 and a street in Ikeja has subsequently been named after him. The sacrifices and exemplary conduct of Dr. Isaac Ladipo Oluwole one of the first indigenous doctors Nigeria produced earned him the title Father of Public health in Nigeria. Click Here to read More

Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti
Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was born in Ijebu Ode on 30 December 1927, in present-day Ogun State, Nigeria. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a prominent political campaigner and women's rights activist, and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers. His brother Fela would grow up to be a popular musician and a founder of Afrobeat, while another brother, Beko, would become an internationally known doctor and political activist. Ransome-Kuti attended Abeokuta Grammar School, University of Ibadan and Trinity College Dublin (1948–54). He was a house physician at General Hospital, Lagos. He was senior lecturer at the University of Lagos from 1967 to 1970 and appointed Director of child health at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos and became Head of Department of Paediatrics from 1968 to 1976. He was professor of paediatrics at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos until his retirement in 1988.] He worked as senior house officer at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and as a locum in Hammersmith Hospital in the 1960s.
In the 1980s, he joined the government of General Ibrahim Babangida as the health minister. In 1983 along with two other Nigerians, he founded one of Nigeria's largest health focused NGOs - Society for Family Health Nigeria primarily concerned with family planning and child health services at the time. In 1986, he conveyed word of Nigeria's first AIDS case, a 14-year-old girl who had been diagnosed with HIV. He was minister until 1992, when he joined the World Health Organization as its Deputy Director-General.
He held various teaching positions, including a visiting professorship at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University's school of hygiene and public health. He wrote extensively for medical journals and publications. He won both the Leon Bernard Foundation Prize and the Maurice Pate Award, in 1986 and in 1990 respectively.
He was a Public health pioneer and a distinguished physician. During his tenure as Nigeria’s minister of health, the ministry witnessed several structural and institutional reforms. He announced Nigeria’s first case of AIDS and was not ashamed to declare the cause of his brothers (Fela Anikolapo Kuti) death when he died of the disease. He laid the foundation and structure for the fight against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.

Dr. Obadiah Johnson
A personification of the subtle wisdom and geniality of the Oyos of Western Nigeria, Obadiah Johnson came from a family distinguished for its ecclesiastical, linguistic and literary excellence. The fourth child in a family of seven, Obadiah was born at Hastings, Sierra Leone on 29 June 1849. His educational career which began in 1855 at the Day School in Hastings was continued in Nigeria in 1858 as a result of the transfer of his father to Ibadan. After a spell at Kudeti, Ibadan, Obadiah Johnson entered Faji Day School, Lagos, in 1864 where his brother, Nathaniel, was a school-teacher. Obadiah left Faji in 1868 and became apprenticed to a Lagos 282 Some early Nigerian doctors carpenter. After two years he returned to Sierra Leone to study at the Grammar School in Freetown from where he entered Fourah Bay College in 1877. When that college became affiliated to Durham University in 1876, two annual open scholarships were created to encourage the best students to go to Fourah Bay. Obadiah Johnson, who topped the list of the candidates in a competitive examination, went on to pass the B.A. degree in 1879.42 Johnson, like Davies, Horton and King, studied medicine at King's College, London. A student of exceptional brilliance, he brought off the remarkable feat of winning "all the prizes in science".42 He gained the M.R.C.S. and the L.S.A. in April 1884. After graduation, like Horton before him, Johnson was elected by the Council to the Associateship of King's College. He spent the next two years in Edinburgh, and returned to Lagos in 1886. Johnson spent a year in private practice in Lagos, and another as medical officer of health in Sherbo, Sierra Leone. He then returned to Lagos at the invitation of Governor Moloney, who had wanted to bring an African into the colonial medical service of Lagos. Dr. Johnson, with his glowing testimonials and many diplomas seemed the right man for the position. Johnson wrote a thesis on "West African therapeutics" in 1889 for which he was awarded the postgraduate M.D. of Edinburgh University. He described the medicine traditionally practised among West Africans "who have had no English education". Johnson wrote from his own experiences and from his first-hand knowledge of Sierra Leone and its neighbouring areas and more especially of Lagos and "Yoruba country" where he practised on his return from Europe. Medicine men were "botanists"; but how in spite of their lack of scientific education, they knew what herbs to use for particular maladies puzzled Johnson.

Source: https://www.publichealth.com.ng/the-7-best-and-greatest-doctors-ever-produced-by-nigeria/

This list isn't complete without Dr Ben Omalu