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Abayomi Oshin; first African to be trained as a physiotherapist. Oshin started the Physiotherapy department in University of Ibadan in October 1966 and degree programme is offered. Before he left in 1990, over 300 had graduated with degree certificates. Some of them became professors in the field, working all over the world. Born in Ijebu-Ode…
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Mike Bamiloye; evangelist, producer and film director, is Nigeria’s best known maker of Christian- themed films. A graduate of the Osun State College of Education, Bamiloye has thrived in movie-making despite lacking formal training in the art. The ministry started in 1985 with its first drama presentation; Hell In Conference coming in July 1986, but…
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Nyame Jolly Tevoro; cleric, politician, administrator and civilian governor of Taraba State in whose name the stadium in Jalingo is called. Nyame had his education at St Thomas Primary School, Zing, 1962-67; Government Secondary School, Yola, 1969-73; Theological College of Northern Nigeria Bukuru, Jos in 1980, same year he got married to Precilla with whom…
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Ebenezer Babatope; Lawyer, journalist, politician and Third Republic Minister of Transport, later Aviation under General Abacha military government. He was also a Director of Research and Publicity of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, as confidant of Obafemi Awolowo. Born January 26, 1933 in Ilesha, Babatope attended Ifaki Grammar School, Ifaki-Ekiti; Igbobi College, Yaba,…
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Folawiyo Iyanda Wahab; industrialist, known as the Baba Adini of Nigeria and a recipient of the nation’s honour of the Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR, born to a successful Lagos merchant, Pa Tijani on June 16, 1928 in Lagos Island and studied at the Methodist Primary School, Ilesha Grammar School, liesha North Western Polytechnic,…
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Ihonvbere Julius Ornozuanvo; pan-African scholar, human rights activist, and professor of Political Science, born on June 25, 1956. Ihonvbere studied at University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts combined Honours Degree in History and Political Science. He obtained his Master’s in International Affairs from…