Kale, First Female Army General Dies at 84, Tinubu Mourns

The first female Army Major General in Nigeria is dead.

President Bola Tinubu has sent his condolences on the death of Major-General Kale, first female general in the Nigerian Army.

General Kale, who joined the Army in 1972 and retired in 1997, died in London on Wednesday, November 8. She was 84.

She was also the first to command the Nigerian Army Medical Corps.

Kale was born on July 31, 1939.

Her father was a pharmacist while her mother was a teacher.

She trained as a medical doctor at University College, which later became the University of Ibadan (UI).

Kale then specialised in psychiatry at the University of London.

She was inspired to pursue psychiatry by Thomas Lambo, Africa’s first professor of Psychiatry.

She worked briefly in Britain and returned to Nigeria in 1971.