Adefunmilayo Tejuosho (née Smith) (born 25 March 1965) is a

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n politician who is a fourth term

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legislator, representing Mushin Constituency I. She is the chairperson of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Finance.

Early life and education

Tejuosho was born in

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to the family of Ademola Smith an epidemiologist who worked for the Nigerian government. She attended University of Lagos Staff School, Akoka,

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and completed her secondary education in West Virginia. After high school, she attended

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, where she studied Biology. She later earned a

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from

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. Tejuosho holds a Ph.D. in law from the

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Career

During her

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year, she was a teacher at her alma mater, Queens School, Yaba. After her call to the bar, she joined the services of Ademola Odunsi & Co. In 1996, she was a member of the Grassroot Democratic Movement under the short-lived Abacha administration and was a House of Representative candidate for the party before the democratic project was cancelled. At the beginning of the fourth republic, she joined Alliance for Democracy. In 2003, she was voted into the Lagos State House of Assembly to represent Mushin Constituency I. In the assembly, Tejuosho sponsored the bill that later became known as the Lagos State Protection Against Domestic Violence Law of 2007. The law grants protection orders to victims of domestic violence from their oppressors. She was inspired to write the draft of the bill by a paper on domestic violence she wrote for her LLM programme at University of Lagos. She went on to hold various posts and positions in the House including Deputy Chief Whip, Deputy Speaker and Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Finance. She was nominated as deputy speaker in 2007 but was impeached in 2009. Following her impeachment a series of investigations were conducted to ascertain the educational qualification of her successor and some of her accusers but the results of the allegations were not released.

Personal life

She is married to Omoba Kayode Tejuosho of the Tejuosho royal family of

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, Nigeria. Together they have four children.

References

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