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Osooro; an Ikale clan predominant in the northern part of Ikale land south of Ondo State, the region of which, with Urhobo immigrants accounts for more than a quarter of Ikale population. Ikale, the Yoruba linguistic subgroup to which Osooro belong, originates from Ugbo and Benin areas, with a population of almost a million people1…
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Mabel Segun; Novelist, one of Nigeria’s first generation writers. Mabel Segun is the author of My Father’s Daughter, The First Corn, Olu and The Broken Statue, Youth Day Parade, The Twins and The Tree Spirits, and Sorry, No Vacancy[i]. Her last work before her comeback in 2010 was in 1998. And before that, she had…
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Akintola Williams; the doyen of chartered accountants in Nigeria. Williams is Nigeria’s first chartered accountant. Impressed by the high standard of accounting practice in the United Kingdom, he saw a need to organise and professionalise it in Nigeria. To this end, he arrived home in 1952 to establish, at 32, Africa’s first indigenous chartered accounting…
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Frederick Rotimi Alade Williams; Lawyer and member of the British Institute of Comparative Law. F.R.A. Williams is the first Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the defunct Western Region. Born on December 16, 1920 to Thomas Ekundayo Williams, himself, a lawyer, and Lande Williams, F.R.A. attended CMS Grammar School, Lagos, 1934-38 and Selwyn College,…
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Mustapha Akanbi; Nigerian judge of the Federal High Court, later president of the Court of Appeal, renowned for good records and deep sense of history. Three years to the expiration of his tenure as the president of the court of appeal, Akanbi, to the consternation of many Nigerians, resigned in 1999. As the grey-haired judge…
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Theophilus Danjuma; Military general who played crucial roles in the shaping of post-independence Nigeria. Danjuma who made huge fortunes in Nigeria’s extractive industry announced his foundation with the sum of $100 million in 2009[i]. The one-time Chief of Army Staff, COAS, and Minister of Defence is generally regarded as a doyen of military professionalism[ii]. Born…
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Third Marine Commando; Nigerian military unit and a major player in the Nigerian civil war, representing an important portion in the Nigerian history, especially between 1967 and 1970. Benjamin Adekunle, who was trained at Sandhurst, an excellent global military training institution located in the United Kingdom, raised and moulded into a credible fighting force the…
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Jebba; Cosmopolitan community, located in Moro local government council of Kwara State is a town about 80-kilometres distance from Ilorin, the state capital and also a gateway town between Kwara and Niger states. Jebba is located on a hilly topography in an expanse of land bounded by River Niger. Two major problems confronted Jebba for…
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National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC; Nigeria’s state oil corporation through which the federal government regulates and participate in the oil industry Nigerian was formed in 1977 was a result of different developments in the country’s oil industry. The evolution of the Corporation, no doubt, was after the first commercial oil find was made in 1956 by…