Category: Government
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Arisekola Alao; Trader and major player in Ibadan politics in Nigeria. Arisekola, who is also identified as a Muslim leader started his business with 300 pounds given to him by a friend and he secured a credit facility of 3,000 pounds from the Imperial Chemical Industry, London, which launched him into the business world. As…
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Justus Gbenga Daniel is a politician, and governor of Ogun State, Nigeria from 2003 to 2011. His name is often preceded by Otunba, an Egba chieftaincy title obtained during his first term as governor. Daniel is trained as a mechanical engineer and owns a heavy machine distribution company which he founded in 1990. His legacy…
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Omotunde Ilori; Justice and former Chief Judge of Lagos state, Nigeria. Ilori showed interest in litigation and adjudication during his legal career which began in 1964. In his position as the Chief Judge, Ilori introduced automatic stenographic recording machines and the computerisation of operational system into the machinery of justice in Nigeria. Places of…
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Ilesanmi Abiodun; Nigerian Physician and professor of medicine. He is a recipient of the National Merit Award in Hospital Administration. He is also a recipient of two National Honours (OON and NPOM). Professor Ilesanmi Abiodun supervised the commencement of renal transplant, corneal transplant, IVF and open heart surgery (which is yet to be fully sustained) in…
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Samu’ila Danko Makama; Demographer who conducted the first population census in Nigeria as chairman of National Population Commission NPC. Makama’s 2006 Census was a head count that was tailored to suit the millennium Development Goals. It showed the actual number of persons living in the country, the number of males and females, the age composition…
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Nkemafor Nonyerem Chikwe; Nigerian politician and founding member of the People’s Democratic Party PDP. She was born in 1947 and graduated from Queens College of City University, USA in French Language. Chikwe came from the academia, being a lecturer to be appointed the Nigerian minister of Transport in 1999. She was later moved in a…
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Femi Pedro; Politician and banker, Olufemi become a strident voice in the politics of Lagos within a short stint of time. Coming from a banking career which lasted 23 years, Olufemi Pedro joined Nigerian politics of Lagos State in 1999, becoming within four and a half years the Deputy Governor to Bola Tinubu. Pedro’s attempt…
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Bola Babalakin; Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1992. Babalakin chaired before this appointment, the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up in January 1987 by military government of General Ibrahim Babangida to investigate the Federal Electoral Commission. Origin Grandfather, Adeleye shared ancestry with the Owu who moved from the first Owu kingdom…