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Ebitu Okoh Ukiwe; Nigeria’s first chief of general staff. Ukiwe was military governor of Niger State, 1977-78, military administrator of Lagos State, 1978-79 and chief of general staff, 1985-86. A war generalissimo, Ukiwe pitched tent with the Biafran side during the 30-month-old Nigerian civil war, proving his mantle on the battlefield. However, after the war.…
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Ahmadu Bello University: Federal Government of Nigeria owned university in Zaria. On 4 October 1962, the University of Northern Nigeria was founded in Zaria. The second largest in Africa, surpassed only by the University of Cairo, its primary focus at inception was to provide quality education to Nigerians of Northern extraction who were believed to…
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Ethanol; is an alcohol derived from grains like corn and tubers of cassava[i]. It is emerging as an important motor fuel in view of the Kyoto Protocol Agreement to which Nigeria is a signatory. Ethanol is easy to use in combustion engines, requiring none to minor modifications, it has a higher octane rating compared to…
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Nigerian Content is defined as the quantum of composite value added or created in the Nigerian economy through the utilisation of Nigerian human and material resources for the provision of goods and services to the petroleum industry within acceptable quality, safety and environment standards in order to stimulate the development of indigenous capabilities. Despite…
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Stella Obasanjo; First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 1999 till her demise in October, 2005. Stella was praised as a stablising influence in the nation’s turbulent political turf and a leash on the husband’s mercurial temper. Her visits to Yola during the incarceration of her husband by the Abacha regime on charges…
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Ofada town, founded by warriors who took part in the Egba-Oyo war in the 19th century, is inhabited by the Igboin and Igbore people of Egbaland. The community is famous for production of the local “Ofada rice” which is the favourite of many. The town is mostly inhabited by the Yoruba who speak Egba dialect. Other…
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Olusola Oke; Ondo state politician and lawyer. Oke was the National Legal Adviser of the PDP between 2008 and 2012. He was elected into the House of Representatives from representing Ilaie/Ese-Odo Constituency in 1992. In 2000, he was appointed into the pioneer board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). At NDDC, his team executed…
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Plane Crash; Over a thousand lives has been lost to plane crashes in Nigeria since the first recorded incidence which occurred on November 20, 1969 when a government-owned DC-10 aircraft on a flight from London crash-landed in Lagos. It killed all 87 passengers and crew on board. Several causes have been adduced to aviation accidents,…
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Okilo Melford; First democratically elected governor of old Rivers State. Okilo Melford was born November 30 1933 in Emakalakala now part of Ogbia Local Council of Bayelsa State. During his tenure, Okilo established the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, RSUST. Okilo Melford attended Teachers Training College, Diobu, Port Harcourt, Christian College, Florida, United…
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Ernest Shonekan; Industrialist who headed Interim National Government of Federal Republic of Nigeria, from August to November, 1993. Shonekan was a Chairman/Managing Director, UAC of Nigeria Limited, 1980-93. He led the Vision 2010 committee under the regime of General Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s military ruler[i]. Born May 9, 1936 in Lagos but an Indigene of Abeokuta[ii],…