Helen Prest, Former Beauty Queen, Loses Husband

By Adesina Soyooye

Helen Prest, unarguably, Nigeria’s most enduring Beauty Queen, has been widowed.

Her beloved husband, Dr Tosin Ajayi, passed on Monday. Dr Ajayi was the founder of First Fondation Medical Centre.

A renowned doctor, it was to his hospital that the fatally wounded  Journalist, Dele Giwa, was rushed to, after he was bombed in his study, at his residence during the regime of Military President Ibrahim Babangida.

Giwa, it was reported, kept appealing to Dr Ajayi to not let him die, until he passed.

Dr Ajayi was a product of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, and held an MSc in Cardiology from the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, University of London.

He was also the founder of Africa Future which he launched in 2019.

The cause of his death is not yet known, but he was said to have been battling with health issues in the past couple of months.