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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Octolorin Adeniji-Bello was born and raised in Central Island of Lagos, Nigeria. He attended St. John’s School in Aroloya, Lagos and completed his elementary school education in Ibadan Western Region at the St. Michael’s Catholic Primary School, Yemetu. He had his secondary education at Eko Boys’ High School, Mushin, Lagos. He rose to become a perfect at the school. He proceeded to the United States of America in 1972, where he attended Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York. He was first elected the President of International Student Organization of college in 1973 and the following subsequent years elected President of the Student Government Association and President of the Student Council of the university.
He graduated with B.S. degree with the 1976 class. At the university, the author showed his acute sense of observation and proactive tendencies by reversing the fiscal slide of the university and increasing the enrollment of the university with an increase of the minority student population from 9.0% to 45% by the end of his tenure. More scholarship endowment contributions for international students was realized, while the strengthening of the Liberal Arts and Sciences was promoted. He was a member of the University Revitalization Committee of Brooklyn, downtown Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant sections which burned down during the up-heaval of the 1960’s. The author obtained the Masters of Science and Doctorate degrees in Medical Sciences, majoring in Clinical Immunology at the C.W. Post College, Long Island University and Uppsala University, Sweden ,respectively .He received his Anatomic Pathology training at the Catholic Hospitals of Brooklyn and Queens, New York.
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