[1] In 1965, she gained admission to the University of Ibadan to study Medicine but the Nigerian Civil War of 1966 interrupted her studies and due to her relationship with the British Missionaries she was able to transfer to the University of Birmingham, England, where she obtained the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree (MBChB) in 1970.
She got the Commonwealth Scholarship Award between 1982 and 1983 and had further specialist training in Paediatric Surgery at the Children's Hospital, Birmingham, England.
She later moved to the College of Medicine, Enugu State University of Science and Technology where she served as the Provost between 2005 and 2011 and became an emeritus professor in 2005.
She gave a guest lecture titled 'Conjoined Twins – The Nigerian experience' at the scientific congress of the Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas at Chicago USA in 2002 and in 2003, she made a poster presentation of 'Conjoined Twins of UNTH' at the scientific conference of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons.
In Tokyo Japan in 2004, she made a scientific presentation titled 'The Challenges of Conjoined Twins' at the congress of the Medical Women International Association.