Category: Government


  • Life Expectancy is an estimate of the number of years individual new born infants would live under the prevailing mortality risks within a population. Life expectancy is often indicated at the time of birth. According to UNICEF (1997), life expectancy for individuals in the least developed countries is 43 years, compared with the 78 years…

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  • Apata Memorial School is a private secondary school in Isolo, Lagos, introducing military ethos in its program in line with the vision of the founder, retired Brigadier Apata. The school, with address, Plot 36/42 Godwin Omonua Street Ire-Akari estate,Isolo Lagos is a part of the group consisting of the Nursery and Primary schools, evolved from…

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  • Ansar-Ud-Deen Comprehensive College Otta was established September 19, 1946 in Ota. The Ota school, like the Ansar-Ud-Deen in Isolo and Surulere, is a Muslim secondary school for boys and girls. Ansar-Ud-Deen Ota, which holds fond memories in the minds of many successful men and women today, is not in its best physical state as facilities…

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  • Ansar-Uud-Deen College, located in 1, Akinbaiye street, Isolo, is a Muslim school that was founded in 1952. The school have successfully adapted to the new Education paradigm, and modern facilities are been put in place, howbeit slowly. The school has, in its early years been built in a very remote place, and there were challenges…

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  • Ansar-Uud-Deen Grammar School Surulere, 73/74 Randle Avenue Surulere, Lagos, was founded in 1958 in Obele-Oniwala. The Ansar-Ud-Deen Grammar school had suffered serious difficulties even in teaching what appears to be one of its main focus; the Arabic language. With some foreign aids such as those of the United States Information Service and the Ranfurly Library…

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  • Anaesthesia is a state of controlled and reversible loss of consciousness usually associated with insensitivity to pain, reflex depression, and a variable degree of muscle relaxation. This definition by Famewo C.E. of the University of Ibadan is summed up in the Greek epistemology, ‘a’ meaning without, and ‘aesthesis’ meaning perception. Anaesthesia became a subject of…

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  • American International School is a co-educational school for Pre-school pupils to 12th Grade, offering the American educational program for students of all nationalities. The school was established 1964 in Lagos as a US State Department school to provide the American experience to international students. Studentship comprises pupils from over 30 countries while Nigerians and Americans…

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  • Alimotu Pelewura was an activist trader of pre-colonial Nigeria, who, though illiterate, led women successfully in their struggle against unjust taxation and for suffrage. Pelewura was born in the last decade of the 19th Century to a Muslim family. During the Second World War, she organized demonstrations against British policy of monopoly in the distribution…

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  • Louisville Girls School located in 114B, Ilupeju Way, Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi Lagos. Louisville was named after the 19th Century Roman Catholic priest born in Paris, Louis. The well-equipped school is a girls only school and is located in Ijebu-Itele. The school is run by the Sisters of St. Louis Nigeria province. The graceful nature of…

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  • Alex Taylor was a Lagos lawyer, cheered in his lifetime as the “cork of the Nigerian Bar”. Alex Taylor was born 13 April 1876 and had his elementary education at Port Novo, proceeding to Lagos to study at Wesleyan Boys High School before he was sent by his parents to C.M.S. school in Sierra Leone…

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