Category: Government
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Andy Uba; Politician from Anambra State who served as the longest most trusted and closest aide of President Obasanjo. Uba was also senator of the federal republic from 2011-2019. Slim, averagely tall and not given to much talking, his friendly self-effacing mien contrasted sharply with the strong apparatus of power he was surrounded with. Born…
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Smith International Baptist Academy, Ogbomoso (SIBAO) is a secondary school, one of the several learning institutions located within the premises of Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso. It runs a coeducational programme and has boarding facilities for students who reside in the school.The school colours are green and yellow, which signify growth and strength respectively, and…
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Hadiza Ladi Kwali born in c.1925, was a Nigerian potter, the best known one in her time whose work won international acclaim for its ingenuity and beauty. Ladi Kwali was a native of Kwali village in the Gwari region of Northern Nigeria. Growing up in a community where pottery was a common craft for the…
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Emmanuel Alayande; Clergyman and educationist, president of the Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, who due to his integrity became one of the most respected elders in the country. Alayande was born in 1910, in Ibadan, Oyo State and graduated from the University of London’s Institute of Education, England. He was vice-principal, Ibadan Grammar School, 1947-1948;…
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Jim Ijenwa UNAH (PhD) is the First University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lagos. He was recently the Visiting Faculty Dean, Faculty of Arts, Dennis Osadebay University, Anwai, Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria, and formerly the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics) at the Premier University of Sao Tome and Principe, Gulf of Guinea, Central…
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Kalu, Orji Uzor; Businessman, politician and the executive governor of Abia State from May 29, 1999 on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party. PDP, He was born April 21, 1957 in Eziama Aba, Abia State. He is an alumnus of Barewa College, Zaira, Kaduna State; University of Maiduguri, Borno State and Institute of International Education,…
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Ike Chinyere Nwosu; Colonel of the Nigerian army; born November 21, 1946. Nwosu was a burly army officer reputed for his lack of finesse in the handling of state matters. Criticized for leaving no achievements in his stewardship as military administrator, he had on a number of occasions demonstrated compassion, the most outstanding of which…
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Abba Gana was the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja 2001-203 before Nasir El Rufai. He was redeployed as Special Adviser to President Obasanjo. Born 11 November 1953 in Damboa, Borno State, Abba-Gana was educated at Barewa College, Zaria, 1959-63; Provincial Secondary School, Okene 1964-65; and Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, 1966-69[i]. Gana married…
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Akindolani Olusuyi; business executive who was MD of Cocoa company in Ile-Oluji. Olusuyi qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1980, in England, as a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and was admitted to the associated membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria in 1985. He was later admitted as a…