Author: tope_litcaf
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Ayoola Kehinde; Engineer and veteran of the Nigerian telecommunication sector. In 1985, when the Nigeria External Telecommunications Limited, NET and the technical arm of the Posts and Telegraph, P&T Departments were to be merged, Ayooola and his colleague were those who coined the prominent designation: Nigeria Telecommunications Limited, NITEL. Origin Ayoola is one half…
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Atuyota Allelujah; Nigerian Stand-up comedian, known as Ali Baba. He does shows for big corporate concerns, including oil firms and banks. Born in Warri, Delta State to an educationist father, Ali Baba moved to Lagos with his mother and father who got transferred to the Nigerian Army Education Corps. He later attended St Michael’s Primary…
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Michael Kaase Aondoakaa; Attorney General and the most controversial in President Umaru Yar’Adua’s government. Aondoakka was part of the subcommittee that produced a white paper which upturned the Justice Uwais electoral reform recommendations[i]. Childhood Aondoakaa’s father was a polygamous district head of several children with his mother the most senior among the wives. He…
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Ephraim Omorose Ibukun Akpata; Nigeria’s Independent Electoral Commission INEC chair who organized elections in 1999 which ushered in Nigeria’s democracy after 15 years of military rule. Akpata was a retired justice of the Supreme Court working as private consultant on arbitration matters when he was appointed by General Abdulsalami Abubakar to head the newly formed…
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Erastus Akingbola; Nigerian banker. Akingbola’s inroad to banking started in 1971 when he secured appointment with Union Bank of Nigeria Ltd, As a bank clerk, he proceeded soon after to register for a professional course in Banking. This he did on a part-time basis. The turning point came in February 1989 after he had risen…
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Alao Adedayo; Publisher, Alaroye newspapers, a popular weekly vernacular tabloid among the Yoruba people of Nigeria. From 1985 when he was a Yoruba newsreader on the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, Adedayo had noticed a vacuum in the indigenous language newspapers and decided to fill it. Unable to convince partners about the idea of a Yoruba…
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Michael Ajomo; Nigerian Law professor who pioneered School of Law at the University of Lagos and University of Ilorin. He was conferred with the National Honour of the Officer of the Federal Republic in 2003. Place of Growth Michael Ayodele Ajomo was born in Okpe Akoko- Oke Ose Local Government Area (now in Edo…
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Alex Akinyele; Public Relations expert and politician. Akinyele was Minister for Information under the General Babangida regime form 1989-91. Once commended by Hilton Fyle, the presenter of BBC Network Africa as the best dressed man in Nigeria, Akinyele worked as the image maker of a military government experimenting a very unfavorable Structural Adjustment Programme[i]. Akinyele…