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Stanley Macebuh; Nigerian journalist, one of the most celebrated. Macebuh was pioneer Managing Director of The Guardian newspapers and special assistant to President Olusegun Obasanjo. He died March 2010. Places of Growth Born on December 28, 1942, Macebuh attended Government Primary School, Port Harcourt, and Ngwa High School, Aba, before he proceeded to the…
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Layiwola Peju; Nee Olowu, leading figure among the new generation of metal sculptures in Nigeria. A grand-daughter to Oba Akenzua II of Benin, her career was shaped by the Royal Art of the kingdom. Peju’s mother who did metal casting in Benin at a higher degree was her earliest influence. When young, she helped her…
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LADAN Shehu; Nigerian lawyer in Kaduna State, Shehu Ladan is the Group Executive Director, Commercial and Investment, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. He was born on 21 September 1952 in Kaduna, attended N.A. Primary School, Hidun Wada, Kaduna from 1960-1966, and Shelleh Sabbah College, now Sarduana Memorial College, Kaduna from 1967-1971. Ladan was trained professionally…
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Goodluck Azikiwe Ebele Jonathan; President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2010-2015. Following a controversial “doctrine of necessity” by the Senate on February 9, 2010 Jonathan first assumed a new role as Acting President. On May 5, 2010 when President Yar’Adua was pronounced dead, he resumed office as President. Jonathan went on to stand for the 2011…
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Adisa Meredith Akinloye, born in 1913, was among people who were held as suspects in the alleged coup plot of 1995. Akinloye was a lawyer and a politician, one of the highest ranking of Ibadan chiefs, he became a minister in the Western Region government of Obafemi Awolowo in 1952 when the highest ranking Nigerian…
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Akinleye Larinde; Film actor whose performance as Alagba in Koseegbe, Chief Seriki Saworoide, Vice Principal in Thunderbolt and Akinkunmi in Bashorun Gaa, which was yet to be released at the time of his death, established him as a theatre icon[i]. Larinde Akinleye was born at Ipapo, Itesiwaju Local Government of Oyo State on August 2.…
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Umaru Dikko; controversial politician in Nigeria and chief strategist of the National Party of Nigeria in the Second Republic, and federal minister of transport in President Shagari’s cabinet. After the 1983 coup which displaced his boss, Dikko confronted the General Buhari regime and was reported by the government press as having threatened to recruit mercenaries…
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Mike Okhai Akhigbe; the second in command in the military government that midwifed Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999. The Admiral was between 1994 and 1998 the Chief of Naval Staff and became the Chief of General Staff in 1998, during the General Abubakar’s military government. His reported suggestion against a Government of National Unity…
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Ayorinde Aina; Nigerian scriptwriter, Ayorinde began writing for the Nigerian Television Authority in the late 1970’s while still in school. When he finished in 1984, he was contracted by the station as a producer, a position he combined with script writing. Ayorinde produced some of the programmes that interested and kept a generation glued to…