Category: Social – Welfare
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Adebayo Adeoye, Police chief, born 18 April 1949, in Ede, Osun State, Adeoye attended United Primary School, Ilorin, Kwara State; Baptist Secondary Modern School, Ara-Ede, Osun State; ljebu Muslim College, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State; and Ahmadu Bello university, Zaria, where he obtained a degree in Geography. During the compulsory one-year national service, Adeoye served as…
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Obinna Uzor; Businessman and politician, born March 17, 1963, Uzor founded GOCUZ, a trading outfit which grew to a conglomerate. Uzor was governorship candidate in the state on the platform of the National Democratic Party, NDP. Later, he joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and he was touted replacement of Governor Ngige in the anticipated…
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Veterinary Public Health stands between human and animal medicine. It indicates how the environment affects the animal and the people even as more people share thesame environment with the animals. With the emergence of Ebola and other diseases from animals, this became accentuated. This is a relatively young field of medicine that is evolving. There…
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Fundamentalism; is ideological or religious intolerance. There is a clear demarcation between terrorism at an international level and the rise of fundamentalism in northern Nigeria as a region. There are many factors that led to the low level of tolerance and peace in this part of country. First is the problem of illiteracy. There is a…
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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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Bolanle Awe; Professor of History, born January 28, 1933 in Ilesa, Osun State. Awe attended CMS Girls’ School, Lagos, 1946-50; St. Anne’s School, Ibadan, 1950-57; Perse School for Girls, Cambridge, England, 1952-54; University of St, Andrews, Scotland, UK, 1954-58; and Oxford University, UK, 1958-60. She lectured at various times at the universities of Lagos and…
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Betty Irabor, Editor-in-Chief of Genevieve, a lifestyle magazine, one of the most consistent female media professionals. In 2005, Betty, through Genevieve, launched a war against breast cancer. Its first breast cancer benefit, The Pink Ball, was held that year. And with it came a massive awareness campaign, which placed the accent on the risks associated…
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JMJ; community in the backyard of Ajegunle that was known for decades as a jungle city. Stories had it that JMJ was populated mostly by whitemen in the pre-colonial and immediate post colonial years, hence its popular acronym amongst people in Ajegunle – European Quarters. JMJ is the deeper, dingier and rougher jungle where the…
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Maryam Abacha; Wife of General Sani Abacha, Head of State, hence First Lady of Nigeria, 1993-98. Maryam cancelled the scheme of her predecessor. In its place, she launched the Family Support Programme, FSP, which allegedly served as one of the numerous drain pipes through which Abacha looted the national treasury. In the heydeys of Obasanjo…
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Yusuf Sulaimon Lasun; Deputy Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives 8th Assembly. Lasun was known for embarking on tutorial exercise for fresh students in science-oriented subjects in his native town of Ilobu. Consistent with his interest for human development, he deployed his constituency projects as member of the federal house to build schools, and…