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  • Sani Dauda; Nigerian businessman who through his own private company, ASD Motors, bided for and acquired PAN which assembles the enduring motor vehicle brand in Kaduna.  With Peugeot’s acquisition, Dauda’s first priority was to re-shape the company’s vision and re-orientate the staff to achieve greater efficiency. In this regard, the company invests in technology and…

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  • Ezekiel Fatoye; an engineer and a strong force in the telecommunication industry in Nigeria for four decades. An ex-Executive Director at NITEL and MultiLinks, he is also on the management team at Spectranet. Fatoye was part of innovations in the telecommunications. After his tenure as executive director in NITEL, he started Nigeria’s first private telecommunications…

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  • Joke Silva; Celebrated actress of the Nollywood. Joke commenced acting at the University of Lagos as part of the cultural centre, rehearsing plays directed by  Prof. Bode Osanyin. She also performed at  the Goethe Institute and British Council. She did more theatre and quite a lot of television. Joke Silva  was adjudged the best actress at African…

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  • Abdul Mumuni Aminu; Colonel in the Nigerian Army, one who personally arrested General Buhari on the coup day of August 27, 1985 that brought General Babangida to power[i].  Mumuni was the self-effacing, tall, dark and strikingly handsome soldier who formed the third leg of the pro-Babangida triumvirate. The original stock of the so-called “IBB Boys”…

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  • Dare Babarinsa; Journalist, born May 9, 1955 in Oke-Mesi Ekiti State. Babarinsa called for an account of the civil war from wartime Head of State and head of the separatist side in an article in 2003, advocating that the political problem in Nigeria must never again be subjected to the gory logic of the battlefield[i].…

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  • Peter Awelewa Adebiyi; clergy of the Anglican Communion,  advocate of political restructuring, true federalism and good governance. Peter Adebiyi was for 14 years the Bishop of the Diocese of Lagos West; first Bishop the Diocese. His first three years were spent in Owo Diocese where he was Bishop. Peter Adebiyi, retired in 2013 as the…

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  • John Obaro; Technology entrepreneur. Obaro led a team that pioneered Nigeria’s first network linking Lagos and four states in terms of real-time online banking when he was still at International Merchant Bank(IMB). He worked with the consulting firm Arthur Andersen where incidentally he was on same team Nigeria’s first minister of Communication and Information Technology,…

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  • Barnabas Vwa Jabilla; with the operational nickname of Sergeant Rogers. Barnabas was a non-commissioned officer of the Strike Force, an anti-terrorist outfit of the Presidency set up in 1994 under the headship of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha[i]. Rogers was the man at the centre of the heinous crimes committed under the Abacha dictatorship. In his testimony…

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  • Christopher Olusola Kolade; described by his biographer as  a subject that embodies the healthier, sterner, firmer fibre of the nation’s soul, Kolade was from 2002 to 2007 the Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. Before this appointment, he had a distinguished public career starting out in 1955 as Education Officer in the Ministry of…

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  • Gwoza hills; rocky and sun-baked  system of hills in Borno State where three villages with primitive existence and peculiar traditions: Kunde, Guduf- Nagadio and Guduf-Kusaraha in Gwoza Local Government Area of the state are situated. Inhabitants do not build houses but live in caves with thatch and thorns as doors. They worship stones and wood,…

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