Category: Government
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Alex Akinyele; Public Relations expert and politician. Akinyele was Minister for Information under the General Babangida regime form 1989-91. Once commended by Hilton Fyle, the presenter of BBC Network Africa as the best dressed man in Nigeria, Akinyele worked as the image maker of a military government experimenting a very unfavorable Structural Adjustment Programme[i]. Akinyele…
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LADAN Shehu; Nigerian lawyer in Kaduna State, Shehu Ladan is the Group Executive Director, Commercial and Investment, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. He was born on 21 September 1952 in Kaduna, attended N.A. Primary School, Hidun Wada, Kaduna from 1960-1966, and Shelleh Sabbah College, now Sarduana Memorial College, Kaduna from 1967-1971. Ladan was trained professionally…
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Goodluck Azikiwe Ebele Jonathan; President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2010-2015. Following a controversial “doctrine of necessity” by the Senate on February 9, 2010 Jonathan first assumed a new role as Acting President. On May 5, 2010 when President Yar’Adua was pronounced dead, he resumed office as President. Jonathan went on to stand for the 2011…
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Umaru Dikko; controversial politician in Nigeria and chief strategist of the National Party of Nigeria in the Second Republic, and federal minister of transport in President Shagari’s cabinet. After the 1983 coup which displaced his boss, Dikko confronted the General Buhari regime and was reported by the government press as having threatened to recruit mercenaries…
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Mike Okhai Akhigbe; the second in command in the military government that midwifed Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999. The Admiral was between 1994 and 1998 the Chief of Naval Staff and became the Chief of General Staff in 1998, during the General Abubakar’s military government. His reported suggestion against a Government of National Unity…
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Ken Saro-Wiwa; Nigerian Environmentalist and author. Ken Saro-Wiwa was the President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP an organisation founded to defend the environmental and human rights of Ogoni people of the Niger Delta. Oil of commercial quantity was found in Ogoniland in 1958, but it also created political problems, environmental…
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Gideon Tseja; Educationist who was consultant to the National Open University Nigeria, NOUN on course materials development. Tseja is a biographer and professor of English. To promote his advocacy for healthy living, he cycled over 200 kilometers from Zaria to Kano and later, to Kaduna. He advocates a clean and safe environment, and living in…
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Paul lyorpiiu Unong; born on September 26, 1937 in Unongo is a Nigerian Benue State politician. The social democrat, Paul lyorpiiu Unongo is a former minister of Steel Development and later Minister of Mines and Power in the Nigerian Second Republic. Unongo first contested for the Benue State governorship in 1983 on the platform of…
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Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, Nigerian civil war hero and politician. Born March 5, 1943 Shehu Musa Yar’Adua was the son of an aspiring politician who later became the first minister of Lagos Affairs during the First Republic. He retired as a major-general occupying positions of the Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters which made him de facto,…
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Umar Yar’Adua; President of Nigeria from 2007-10, brother to Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, general and former military vice president. Yar’Adua’s career in politics started while he was a lecturer. He became an active member of the People’s Redemption Party PRP in the First Republic. His identification with the party is often tied to his belief in…