SUMMARY
Professor Gilbert Obiafo Onuaguluchi (Licentiate, L.S.M, Nigeria 1951, B.Sc. in Physiology of the University of London 1955, MRCP Edin., FRFPS, Glasg., Ph.D. Glasg. 1962) was born on 01 January, 1927. He was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Ibadan and Consultant Physician, University College Hospital, Ibadan, in June 1962. He was the first African member of the academic staff of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He rose to the rank of Professor in May 1965. A rather obscure icon, this brief exposition on him was put together from diverse sources of writings on him found at the Aqueduct of Adeloye, the medical school at University of Nigeria Nsuka, and on the internet