Tejumade Alakija

Tejumade Alakija (17 May 1925 – August, 2013) was a Nigerian civil servant who rose to be the first female head of Oyo State's civil service. She went to Aiyetoro Primary and Central Schools in Ile-Ife, then Kudeti Girls School in Molete, Ibadan for her secondary education. She trained to be a teacher, and passed her PGCE at Oxford University between 1950 and 1951, then joined the Nigerian civil service where she was directed to teach.

She started her teaching career at Queen's School, Ede, Osun State, and later transferred to the new Government Girls’ Secondary Grammar School where she worked from 1951 to 1953. Respectively from 1960 to 1964, and later, she became Chief Investment Officer in the Ministry of Trade and Industries in charge of Industrial Promotions from 1969 to 1972.

She rose to be the first female head of Oyo State's civil service.