Category: Social – Welfare
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Matthew Hassan Kukah; Catholic priest in Nigeria and social critic, an engaging intellectual, author of memoirs about religion and politics, who also served as the General Secretary of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria. Kukah was ordained a priest in 1976 and became a bishop in 2011 when he was appointed to head the Sokoto Diocese.…
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Charles Oputa; Nigerian eccentric entertainer, often appearing with a scarf tied round his neck, nose and eyelids pierced and fixed with big earrings. Oputa, the first son of Chukwudifu Oputa, highly revered Justice of Supreme Court attended Suffolk University, where he read Mass Communication, majoring in speech communication. He was at Emerson University for his…
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Oputa Chukwudifu Sylvester; Chair of the Human Rights Violations Investigations Commission, HRVIC, nominally called the Oputa Panel which was fashioned after the the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa as one of his first of President Obasanjo in office. Oputa is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, and pioneer Chief Judge of…
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Chima Ubani; Nigerian human rights activist who was at the centre of several anti-military campaigns during the regimes of Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha, mobilizing the masses against two among the most notorious regimes in Nigerian history. He fought for the revalidation of the June 12 election won by the late Chief MKO Abiola, travelling…
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Gladys Aduke Vaughan; Educationist who was one of the first women to to found indigenous private primary school in Ibadan, pioneering with her efforts, quality private schools in Nigeria. After the HSC, Gladys served as a pupil teacher for five years in many schools including St. Stephen’s Inalende Ibadan, Oba Ademola School Abeokuta, and Sabo…
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Femi Falana; Nigerian Lawyer, democracy and human rights advocate. From 1988 he used his membership of and activities in different organisations to fight for an egalitarian society, often with comrades of different hues: Wole Soyinka, Tai Solarin, Segun Okeowo, Dele Giwa, Femi Aborisade, Nosa Igiebor, Priscllla Kuye, and Beko Ransome-Kuti. Falana was arrested by the…
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Ahmadu Ali; First Director General of the NYSC in 1973 and later the Minister of Education, remembered for Ali must go Students riot in 1978 which occurred while he was Minister of Education. In that year, the National University Commission NUC Executive Secretary, Prof. Jubril Aminu asked the Supreme Military Council to introduce 50k per…
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Akpo-Mudiaga Odje; Nigerian lawyer who in his agitation for resource control and development issues launched an uncompromising stance against the establishment in the Niger Delta region. With his delivery of a score of speeches and lectures locally and abroad in schools, professional institutions and seminars, Akpo-Mudiaga established himself as a skilled activist. Akpo-Musiaga wrote his…
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Better Life for Rural Women Programme; Nigerian social welfare programme of the late 1980s, conceived as a platform for addressing the needs of women from the lower economic class of the society. Wives of military governors in the various states became chairpersons of the state chapters of the BLP with the wives of local government…
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Adolescence is the period of development from the onset of puberty, to the attainment of adulthood, hence the transitional period between childhood and adulthood. The WHO pegs this between the ages of ten and nineteen years. Adolescence is characterized by physical maturation of the brain and body, giving rise to intense psychological and physical change,…