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Her Life

Biography

March 26, 2019

Mrs. Janet Alero Ohiwerei nee Okorodudu was born at Abeokuta, Ogun State on the 1st of September 1943 to Chief Alfred Omaretseyinosa Esimajuorono Okorodudu and Mrs. Ileola Okorodudu. Chief Okorodudu was a civil engineer in the civil service and public works Department in charge of road construction in many parts of the western region and the middle belt of Nigeria. He was later a District officer in various locations in the south west, including Ondo where he met one of his future wives, Ileola.

During her time in Ibadan, she had met a jovial young man, Felix Aizebeoje Omoikhoje Ohiwerei, who was working for Nigerian Breweries Limited and stationed in Benin where Mrs. Ohiwerei spent her holidays with her parents who were then stationed there. A close friendship developed and by the time she was embarking on her post graduate degree she sailed to meet her now fiancee who was at this time redeployed to London. Almost a year after their engagement, Felix and Janet were married on the 17th of December 1966 in London with a few family members and friends in attendance, their traditional wedding having been held earlier in Nigeria, with Felix elder brother, Tunde, standing in for him.

After the couple returned to Nigeria in 1967 at the start of the civil war and took up residence in Adelabu, Surulere where they began to raise a family, with two girls and three boys born over there next eight years.