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Egwuatu Olisa; sports administrator who as Technical Director of the Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) developed cricket in Nigeria. Young Egwuatu after years of active cricket playing caught the attention of Anambra state’s team selectors and he was invited into the state team, where he rose to stardom. He was saddled with the responsibility of developing…
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Bola Babalakin; Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1992. Babalakin chaired before this appointment, the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up in January 1987 by military government of General Ibrahim Babangida to investigate the Federal Electoral Commission. Origin Grandfather, Adeleye shared ancestry with the Owu who moved from the first Owu kingdom…
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Elesin Tayo; British-Nigerian TV star who has starred in widely acclaimed television soaps such as Law and Order UK, Holby City [BBC], Doctors [BBC]. Born in 1988, she became at 25 one of the very few black young people making strong incursion into the Hollywood and European TV film scenes. Tayo Elesin have acted professionally…
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Abubakar Abdulsalami; Nigerian military Head of State from 1998 to May, 1999. Following the mysterious death of Abacha on June 8 and a month later of Abiola, the undeclared winner of the presidential elections five years before, the emerging General Abdulsalami Abubakar’s administration considered it expedient for a Yoruba to emerge as president ostensibly to…
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Yemi Osinbajo; Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under President Buhari. Osinbajo, a Senior Adocate of Nigeria who became professor of Law at the age of 33 is a former attorney-general of Lagos state and commissioner for justice. He is a resident pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. As Vice Presidient,…
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Victor Uwaifo; Nigerian musician. With his first album which was released in 1960 and titled Akugbe/Okhorhornu mu me” (meaning “unity is strength) Victor enjoyed an early success. In 1966, he became the first African to win a record Gold Disc. After what he called an esoteric encounter with mamy water or mermaid in 1967 at…
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Shehu Idris; Nigerian monarch in the northern region, in 1975 ascended the throne as Emir of Zauzzau corrupted as Zaria by the British Colonialists, a position in which he carried out traditional responsibilities, conflict resolution among his subjects with an obligation to give every issue the sense of urgency and objectivity it deserves. His installation…