[1][2] Here she trained in nursing and achieved first class honours at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
[3] She moved to Hull, England, where she earned a doctoral degree researching family-centred care and nurse's education in Nigeria.
[1][4] She retrained as a nurse in the British system, and started practising in National Health Service hospitals.
[1] She was made Fellow of the West African College of Nursing in 2001 and Professor of Diversity in 2004.
[1][3] She demonstrated that black and minority ethnic clinicians in the National Health Service were more likely to be involved with disciplinary action than their white colleagues who had similar track records and behaviour.