Category: Government
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Muhammadu Dildto Yusuf or MD Yusuf; was the only Nigerian politician who established his own political party to challenge a military self-succession agenda. He served as Inspector General of Police from 1976 to 1979. Yusuf was chairman of Nigeria LNG in 1994 when a consortium led by Halliburton was bidding for a contract to construct…
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Alaba Lawson; Educationist and fourth Iyalode of Egba. Alaba is the school proprietress of Alaba Lawson Group of Schools, a private co-educational school in Abeokuta. She was described in a tribute marking her golden year by Akarigbo Sonariwo of Remo as a front line mobilizer of Human Resources, and by a Keesi Abeokuta chief, Sorunke…
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Charles Emeka Amadi; Nigerian business leader in the marine transportation sector of the oil and gas industry. He is the Chairman/CEO of A.G. Butler Nigeria Limited, an indigenous offshore marine services and construction company. Vibrant and with operational experience dating back to the 1970s, Amadi’s company dealt in costly vessels reaching up to $40 million…
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Kayode Eso; Celebrated Nigerian jurist who made history in handling one of the most complicated criminal trials in history. Eso was part of the body which shaped the laws and the policies of the old Western Region. He was legal drafts man in 1961, principal state council in 1963, and principal crown counsel in 1962.…
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NZEOGWU Chukwuma Kaduna, Soldier and masterminder of the January 16 1966 coup which led to the dissolution of Nigeria’s First Republic, hence ushering in a military rule. No one except Nzeogwu, said the first republic legislator, Mbadiwe, thought it possible before this time[1]. Brash and naïve, Chukwuma showed good judgment on occasions, but it was…
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Margaret Ekpo; first Nigerian woman to be elected a Member of Parliament in 1961. She contested on the platform of the National Council of Nigerian Citizens, NCNC, and won a seat to the Eastern House of Assembly. As a member of the House, Ekpo was elected as part of the delegation to the constitutional conference…
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Remi Fani-Kayode; Deputy Premier of Nigeria’s Western Region from 1962-67. He attained this second position to the premier when an alliance was formed between members of the National Council of Nigeria Citizens (NCNC), (his party), and dissidents from the Action Group (United People Party – UPP – that had S. L. Akintola. Before this time…
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Efunjoke Coker; Educationist, first Nigerian principal of the Queen’s College, Lagos. Efunjoke occupied the unique place of being the only Queen’s College girl on record who participated in the life of the school in the capacities of a student, Principal, and Chairman of the Advisory Council. As a teenager, Efunjoke tutored pupils at St. Teresa’s…
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Simeon Adebo; Public servant of the Nigerian first post-colonial generation. He was head of the Western region civil service during the political impasse that led to the Emergency rule which was declared on 29 May 1962, hence had had to interpret the role of civil servants in the uncertain passage of leadership from Premier Ladoke…