Stella Obasanjo

Stella Adebe Obasanjo (born  November 14, 1945 in Warri , Nigeria , †  October 23, 2005 in Marbella , Spain ) was the wife of the Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo .

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Stella Obasanjo, who studied English at the University of Ife from 1967 to 1969 , was the daughter of manager Christopher Abebe and his wife Theresa. A stay abroad until 1976 followed. Soon after, she married General Olusegun Obasanjo .

She was only able to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, which was awarded to her husband in 1995, on his behalf from Shankar Dayal Sharma at the end of 1996 . In May 1996 she was Helmut Schmidt of the Human Rights Award of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation has been awarded for her husband because it was still a political prisoner.

From 1999 she was the country's first lady . As such, contrary to the intentions of the administration, she founded the Nigerian Child Care Trust , which was supposed to look after the well-being of underprivileged or disabled children. She also campaigned against genital mutilation . During a conference of the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children in 2003, she introduced Zero Tolerance Day , whereupon the Sub-Commission on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights held February 6th as International Day of Zero Tolerance committed to Female Genital Mutilation . She also made sure that this topic was on the official agenda of the 18th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in December 2003 . As part of the National Program for the Prevention of Maternal Mortality , she declared May 22nd to be National Safe Motherhood Day .

She died a few days after undergoing cosmetic surgery at a private clinic in Puerto Banús , near Marbella , where she had liposuction performed; the treating cosmetic surgeon was convicted of delayed assistance. Her case was part of a study.

Web links

• Portrait at onlinenigeria.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Her father was the first Nigerian chairman of the United African Company of Nigeria . Both parents are still alive.
2. ^ RK Raju: Welcome to Nigeria: The Impossible Land. Allied Publishers, August 1, 2002
3. ↑ Leslie Derfler: The Fall and Rise of Political Leaders: Olof Palme, Olusegun Obasanjo, and Indira Gandhi . Palgrave Macmillan, February 1, 2011
4. ↑ Aaron Tsado Gana, Samuel G. Egwu, African Center for Democratic Governance: Federalism in Africa: The imperative of democratic development , Volume 2. Africa World Press, 2003
5. ↑ Binta Bah Zero Tolerance to FGM Means FGM Should Not Be Tolerated. Daily News, February 22, 2012 ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Lars Tonder: Tolerance: A Sensorial Orientation to Politics . Oxford University Press, 5th September 2013
7. ^ Images of the Nigerian Woman: A Quarterly Publication of the National Center for Women Development, Abuja, Volume 4, Issue 1. The Center, 2003
8. ↑ Eugene Okoli: Gender Disparity in Nigerian Education: Women's Experience of Barriers to Equal Educational Opportunity . ProQuest, 2007
9. ↑ Chika Ezeanya The Pressure That Killed Stella Obasanjo (Sahara Reporters)
10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ^ Doctor jailed over former first lady's lipo death
12. ^ I. Glenn Cohen: The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues . Oxford University Press, February 28, 2013