Kudirat Abiola Corner (Manhattan)
Present name:None
Location:Northeast corner of Second Avenue and East 44th Street.
Honoree: Born Kudirat Adayemi in Nigeria in 1952, she attended the Muslim Girls Grammar School. At 21 she married Chief Moshood Abiola. They had 7 children. She founded a pharmaceutical company that became one of the leading businesses in West Africa. In 1993 her husband ran fo president of Nigeria. He was widely acknowledged to have gotten the most votes but the election was overurned by a militray coup and chief Abiola was imprisoned. Kudirat Abiola continued to campaign for demcracy in Nigeria. On June 4, 1996 she was assassinated by gunmen in Lagos.
LL:1997/93