Oreoluwa Green was the first female Pharmacist in West Africa. She was born in Lagos in 1885 and was educated at the CMS Girls Seminary, St Mary’s Convent School in Lagos
and private tuition under Reverend W.B Euba, where she excelled in Mathematics, Greek, Latin and Geometry, she was fluent in English, French and Latin, and was also a gifted actress, who famously played the part of Portia in a production of William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” in Lagos in June and July 1911. traveled She then, to London in 1912, for further education and obtained a First Class Certificate in the Theory of Music from the London College of Music, Certificate of Central Midwives Board, Honours Certificate from the Clapham School of Midwifery and Clapham Maternity Hospital. She was the first West African woman to obtain a practical pharmaceutical qualification when she acquired the Apothecaries Certificate of the Pharmaceutical Society of London and in 1916 acquired her Certificate of Westminster College of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Botany when she successfully passed her qualifying examinations as a Licensed Druggist. She worked as a Dispenser at the Soho Eye and Ear Hospital in London, before returning to Lagos, in 1917, where she first worked as a Midwife at the hospital of Dr. Richard Akinwande Savage (1874–1935). In a bid to contribute more to Lagos and its people, Green later set up her own establishment and practiced as a Nurse and Pharmacist at 71, Campbell Street, Lagos. Nurse Green, as she was fondly called, was a highly accomplished, well-read and cultured lady who did not hesitate to express the outstanding talents she was endowed with.