Author: tope_litcaf

  • Diepreye Alamieyeseigha

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    Diepreye Alamieyeseigha; Bayelsa State Governor, 1999-2005, a proponent of resource control and the sovereignty for Ijaw nation other than Nigeria. DSP styled himself the “governor-general” of the Ijaw nation due to his influence among the ethnicity from Ondo to Cross Rivers. Following his celebrated corruption case, he was impeached by the state House of Assembly…

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  • Kanu Nwankwo

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    Nwankwo Kanu : Nigeria’s most-decorated player and one of the few players to have won the Premier League, FA Cup, Champions League, IUEFA Cup and an Olympic Gold Medal. Time and again, comparison of Kanu who ended his international career following Nigeria’s exit from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa with any budding talent…

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  • Teslim Fatusi

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    Teslim Fatusi Switzerland-based winger, Serviette and Polonia Warszawa star. Born 1978, Fatusi plied his trade in Tunisia, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam before calling it quits with active football in 2008, declining to follow his ex-teammates into coaching. Fatusi’s career took a dive after his gold gift to Head…

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  • Amadi

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    Amadi; the first Nigerian feature film in a local dialect, shows an artist who has managed to overcome the artist’s dilemma of satisfying audience who advocated that African films should reflect the aesthetic and intellectual pre-occupation of black people rather than imitate third-rate Western films. The plot of the film centres around Amadi (John Chukwu)…

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  • Deji

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    Deji; of Akure, traditional title of the Oba of Akure. Royal lineages in Akure trace a common ancestry to Asodeboyede, the first Oba of Akure, who reigned from 1150 A.D to 1180 A.D. As believed by a session, there should be only one Ruling House in Akure. And this had been since 1576 A.D, until…

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  • Eme Awa

    Eme Awa; Public administrator praised on his demise by Gani Fawehinmi as a man whose integrity and honesty made him to be at daggers drawn with General Babangida’s dubious will. Awa came to public consciousness in 1987, when he was given the mandate by the Babangida military dictatorship to organise that year’s local government.  He…

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  • Mbu Tawo

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    Mbu, Mathew Tawo, lawyer, diplomat, politician and Chairman, Boki Boys secondary school Board of Governors, Cross River state, born November 20, 1929 in Okundi, Ogoja, Cross River State. He was the chairman and director of Alraine Nigeria, PiJkLnglon Glass Industry, Wiggins Teape, Scan Construction Nigeria and several other companies. Mbu was the first Nigerian High…

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  • Nta Elijah Henshaw

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    Nta Elijah Henshaw;  the Obong of Calabar from to 2001 to 2008 was until his installation a visiting professor to the University of Benin and the Maxillo-Facial Dental Surgery Unit, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar born November 15, 1928. He became deputy provost and provost, College of Medicine, University of Lagos in 1979.…

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  • Kolade Oshinowo

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    Kolade Oshinowo; Nigerian romantic artist, Oshinowo is one of the most classical visual artists in the country. Oshinowo was born February 6, 1948, Ibadan, Oyo State. He was educated at Macjob Grammar School. Abeokuta, 1961-63, Ibadan Grammar School, 1964-66, and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1968-72. He was appointed Lecturer II at King’s College, Lagos, 1972;…

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  • Cult of the Head of State

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    Cult of the Head of State; was a dimension of the institutional decay of military government era, as established in some of the volumes of the Justice Oputa Panel Report .The military is a great and ancient profession, which requires appropriate demeanor and exemplary standard of conduct, encapsulated in the expression professionalism. Yet professionalism in…

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