Omo-Oba Adenrele Ademola

Princess Adenrele Ademola or Omo-Oba Adenrele Ademola (born 1916) was a Nigerian princess and nurse. She trained as a nurse in London in the 1930s, and remained working there through World War II. She was the subject of a film, Nurse Ademola, made by the Colonial Film Unit and now considered lost.

Life Omo-Oba Adenrele Ademola was born in Nigeria on 2 January 1916. She was the daughter of Ladapo Ademola, the Alake of Abeokuta. In 1941 she had become a registered nurse at Guy's. She later also gained Central Midwives Board qualifications, and worked at Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital and New End Hospital.

A photograph of Ademola appeared in a 1942 pamphlet about the BBC's international activity. George Pearson's film about her, Nurse Ademola is now lost. Made in 1943