LIKE THE MAJORITY OF MY GENERATION FROM MY PLACE OF ORIGIN, THE DATE OF MY BIRTH WAS NOT RECORDED.

MY FATHER WAS A FARMER AND MY MOTHER A TRADER AT THE SERENE AND PICTURESQUE VILLAGE OF OKO IRESE IN THE THEN ILORIN PROVINCE OF THE NOW KWARA STATE. MINE WAS ESTIMATED TO BE AROUND MARCH 1954.

SINCE I WAS BORN ON SUNDAY MY NAME WAS READY MADE. I ADDED RAPHAEL DURING MY BAPTISM AT ST. ANDREWS’ CATHOLIC CHURCH, ORO WHERE I HAD MY PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION. THE NAME RAPHAEL LATER BECAME PROPHETIC IN MY LIFE. MY WIFE, THERESA MOJIROLA IYABO IS FROM THE FAMILY OF AN ILLUSTRIOUS AND PROMINENT RAPHAEL IN ORO AND MY PROFESSION AS A MEDICAL DOCTOR MIRRORS THAT OF ST. RAPHAEL AS A PATRON SAINT FOR HEALTH IN CATHOLICISM.

THE FIRST TWELVE YEARS OF MY LIFE WAS AT OKO WHERE I WAS TUTELAGED IN FARMING AND BUDDING PALM WINE TAPPING. I MOVED TO ORO IN JANUARY 1967 AFTER I LOST BOTH PARENTS TO UNFORGIVING DEATH IN 1966.

IT WAS AT ORO THAT I STARTED MY EDUCATIONAL JOURNEY THAT LATER TOOK ME TO ISGS AJASSE-IPO WHERE I GRADUATED WITH THE WEST AFRICAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE IN 1976. I IMMEDIATELY GOT ADMISSION TO AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY WHERE I OBTAINED THE BACHELOR OF MEDICINE, BACHELOR OF SURGERY ( MBBS ) CERTIFICATE IN 1882. I OBTAINED THE FELLOWSHIP OF WEST AFRICAN COLLEGE OF SUEGEONS IN THE FACULTY OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY (FWACS) IN 1990 WHILE WORKING AT THE JOS UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL.

GOD ENLARGED ME BY GIVING ME A LOVING WIFE AND BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN.

I RESIGNED MY APPOINTMENT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF JOS AND VENTURED INTO PRIVATE MEDICAL PRACTICE IN 1994 WITH A TWO YEAR STINT AT DURO SOLEYE HOSPITAL ON ALLEN AVENUE IN IKEJA, LAGOS.

MY DREAM OF ESTABLISHING A PRIVATE MEDICAL PRACTICE WAS REALISED IN OCTOBER 1996 WHEN I PARTNERED THE ASIWAJU OF OKO IRESE, DR JBO ADEWUMI TO ESTABLISH THE MOTHER AND CHILD HOSPITAL IN IKEJA, THE HOSPITAL IS WAXING GREATER AND BLESSING HUMANITY DAILY WITH OVER A HUNDRED STAFF IN ITS EMPLOYMENT. ALL GLORY TO GOD.

MY LIFE CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE THAT GOD CAN GO TO ANY LENGHT TO SHOW MERCY AND GRACE TO THE UNDESERVING WHO IS WILLING TO COOPERATE WITH HIM. HE SPECIALISES IN RAISING UP THE POOR OUT OF THE DUST, AND LIFTS UP THE BEGGAR FROM THE DUNGHILL, TO SET THEM AMONG PRINCES AND MAKE THEM INHERIT THE THRONE OF GLORY ( 1 SAM 2 : 8 ).

MY SONG SHALL EVER BE …MODUPE MORI ANU GBA / MODUPE MORI ANU GBA/
TORI KI ISE GBOGBO ENIA / LORI ANU GBA.

DR RS OLAREWAJU,
PHONE… +234-803-305-3923.
E- MAIL… ralpholarewaju@yahoo.com