Category: Government
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Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida; Army General who ruled Nigeria as military president from 1985 to 1993. As a key member of the group that overthrew Shagari’s government in 1983, Babangida was rewarded with an appointment as head of the army. That post helped him establish a network of officers that ultimately helped him unsit Muhammadu Buhari…
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James Johnson Oluleye; General in the Nigerian army, who served During the Nigerian civil war, he was general staff officer 1, Nigerian Army Headquarters, from 1967-1970 and previously with the United Nations troops in the Belgian Congo, 1961-62. Oluleye was General Officer Commanding, GOC. 2 Infantry Division, Nigerian Army 1970-75; federal commissioner for establishment, 1975-…
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Rasaki Salawu; Pioneer Director of operations of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC. In 1988, he was invited to head the newly formed FRSC based on his novel initiative that led eleven years before to the founding of the Oyo state corps on road safety which he ideated. Salawu fell out with the more renowned…
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Jubril Aminu, Politician and educationist, also a cardiologist. In the event leading up to the Ali Must Go Students riot in 1978, Aminu as National Universities Commission, NUC Executive Secretary, asked the Supreme Military Council to introduce 50k per meal to augment the government subsides[i]. Showing versatility in his scholarship, Aminu played a significant role…
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Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru; Tax practitioner and accountant, Chairman of Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS during President Obasanjo years. Ifueko was the first female professional staff hired by Arthur Andersen, a leading accounting firm in 1983, rising through the ranks to become the first female professional manager as well as the first female national partner. As…
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Tai Solarin; Activist and educationist. Solarin is known for his social experiments, which he deployed as a school proprietor, his minimalism, his atheistic disposition and his participation in the clamour for democracy. For announcing the military must relinquish power within six months in the mid-80s, Solarin was detained for 17 months in Jos[i]. He once…
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Economist, as cabinet minister belonged to the crop of energetic technocrats of President Obasanjo’s second term in her position as Nigeria’s finance minister. Before her appointment, Okonjo-Iweala was Vice-President of the World Bank. While in office, she headed a team of 13 other ministers largely responsible for fashioning the administration’s series of economic…
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Prosper Okpue; Nigerian Insurance Administrator, recipient of awards in insurance management, the industry which he joined in 1978. Okpue is the Chief Executive Officer of Insurance Brokers of Nigeria (IBN), the foremost insurance broking outfit in the country. IBN is a part of the MARSH Group, the largest insurance and risk management advisor worldwide, with…
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Jadesola Akande; Law professor and first female Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, LASU, in 1989. Born November 15, 1938, Jadesola who is daughter of a lawyer father and a teacher mother is the third of her parents’ four children. She wanted to read dentistry after her secondary school at St. Anne’s, Ibadan, but…
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Atanda Fatai-Williams; Legal luminary, one of the delegate to London which historically decided the design for the robe of the Nigerian Chief Judge. Fatai-Williams was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1967. He served as Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983. After staying abroad for 6 years since his first…