Category: Government
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Elizabeth Ebi; First lady-broker of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Between 1979 and 1981, she was the director of Owners Operation at FCH Services Inc., Washington where she managed a portfolio in excess of $250 million. Later, in 1981, she joined Chase Merchant Bank, later known as Continental Merchant Bank, CMB, as Analyst-Deputy Manager, Corporate Finance,…
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Dabiri-Erewa Abike; Member, Nigerian House of Representatives of the 4th to the 6th Assembly and at different times, Chairman of the House Committees on Diaspora Affairs and Media and Publicity respectively. Dabiri-Erewa was first elected into the House of Representatives to represent Ikorodu Constituency of Lagos State in 2003 and reelected in 2007. She also…
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Irene Chigbue; Director-General Of the Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE) who succeeded Dr. Julius Bala in March 2005. She was first involved with the Nigeria’s privatization programme between 1989 to 1991 when she was engaged as a legal officer with the then Technical Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation (TCPC). With the transformation of the TCPC…
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Muiz Banire; Nigerian lawyer and politician who was legal counsel to the All Progressive Party, APP in 2015. Banire who is also a researcher, published books in his area of specialisation. These include the Nigerian Law of Dusts-, The Blue Book 2004: Practical Approach To The High Court of Lagos State (Civil Procedure) Rules as…
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Michael Kaase Aondoakaa; Attorney General and the most controversial in President Umaru Yar’Adua’s government. Aondoakka was part of the subcommittee that produced a white paper which upturned the Justice Uwais electoral reform recommendations[i]. Childhood Aondoakaa’s father was a polygamous district head of several children with his mother the most senior among the wives. He…
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Ephraim Omorose Ibukun Akpata; Nigeria’s Independent Electoral Commission INEC chair who organized elections in 1999 which ushered in Nigeria’s democracy after 15 years of military rule. Akpata was a retired justice of the Supreme Court working as private consultant on arbitration matters when he was appointed by General Abdulsalami Abubakar to head the newly formed…
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Erastus Akingbola; Nigerian banker. Akingbola’s inroad to banking started in 1971 when he secured appointment with Union Bank of Nigeria Ltd, As a bank clerk, he proceeded soon after to register for a professional course in Banking. This he did on a part-time basis. The turning point came in February 1989 after he had risen…
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Michael Ajomo; Nigerian Law professor who pioneered School of Law at the University of Lagos and University of Ilorin. He was conferred with the National Honour of the Officer of the Federal Republic in 2003. Place of Growth Michael Ayodele Ajomo was born in Okpe Akoko- Oke Ose Local Government Area (now in Edo…