Author: tope_litcaf
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Oshoffa Samuel Bilewu Founder of Celestial Church of Christ, an African Instituted Aladura church identified by white garment uniform accompanied by bare footedness. His ministry which spanned thirty-eight years were defining in those years for Christianity both in the country of its origin, Benin, and Nigeria. At his demise in 1985, delegates were sent by…
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Ogunlesi Adebayo; Investment Banker and Lawyer, member of the short-lived 16-man American Economic, Strategic and Policy Forum under President Donald Trump was trained in Harvard University, serving as an editor in the Harvard Law Review as student. He worked as a law clerk to a Justice, and attorney in a New York law firm. After…
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George Orji; Nigerian pastor martyred by terrorist group after his capturing at his church in Maiduguri, Borno State. George Orji was appointed as a Pastor by the Good News Church on 25th March, 1999 and posted to the Riverside Church. He served as pastor in charge of the headquarters church from June, 1999 to March,…
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Onyia Zeal; famous trumpeter with records of spectacular performances. Zeal fine-tuned his budding skills under the tutelage of Bobby Benson of Nigeria and Emmanuel Tetteh Mensah of Ghana. After starting his music under Benson, he travelled to Ghana to further what became a flourishing career. For him, Ghana was a fertile ground. It took little…
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Ndayako Umar Sanda; Monarch and administrator, was the chairman of the Technical Committee set up by the federal government on the review of the structure of local government councils in Nigeria. Young Ndayako’s first appointment in the former Northern Nigerian Government was as an assistant secretary in the old Ministry of Local Government. In February,…
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Sarki Mukhtar; Major General of the Nigerian army, appointed in 2006 as as the National Security Adviser. Mukhtar served before as head of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, DMI, under General Sani Abacha, and was also Nigeria’s envoy to Russia. Mukhatar, a hard-nosed soldier, started an impressive military career that spanned 31 years at the…
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Moronkeji Omotayo Onalaja; Justice of the Nigerian Court of Appeal, described by Kayode Esho, Justice of the Supreme Court as a pride to the Nigerian law who would feature forever in the country’s judicial history. Onalaja’s erudition ensured that throughout his career on the Bench, none of his judgments was ever upturned by the Supreme…
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Remi Olowude; Nigerian Insurance expert, fought consistently at the fore-front of the crusade to eliminate all forms of monopoly in the insurance industry. In 1992, he formed an insurance company which was the leader of a group of second-generation insurance Firms in the country, which in the spirit of the deregulation of Nigeria’s financial system…
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Aikhomu Augustus; Nigerian Naval Officer who served as the de facto Vice-President of Nigeria during the Ibrahim Babangida military junta from 1986 to 1993. Also once a Chief of General Staff, Aikhomu was the first naval officer to be promoted as an Admiral in black Africa. He was the first signatory to the document which…
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Aigboje Higo; Nigerian publisher whose industry and resourcefulness brought Heinemann Educational Publishers UK into reckoning in Nigeria. When in 1964, Heinemann wanted to establish shop in Nigeria, it settled for Aigboje Higo who was at the time a school principal content with his job. Higo wrote back rejecting the offer but after more pressing, and…