Category: Government
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ADEMOLA Adetokunbo, Doyen of Nigerian Judiciary. Ademola was the last Chief Justice of Nigeria appointed by the colonial authorities, thereafter the longest indigenous Chief Justice of the nation, serving fourteen years from April 1958. He was thus leader of the judiciary both during the nation’s joys of independence and in her worst moments of crisis.…
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Samuel Olumuyiwa Jibowu was the first Nigerian Judge who was also Chief Justice of Lagos and the old Western region successively. Jibowu was born on August 26 1899 at Abeokuta. He attended Abeokuta Grammar School and Oxford University in England. He was called to Bar in 1923 at Middle Temple London. From 1931 he acted…
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Solid Rock Girls Academy is a private all-girls’ secondary school in Sagamu. British model of teaching is used but with West African School Certificate exam in mind. The school’s unostentatious campus, located in Old Lagos-Ibadan Road, Sagamu, has facilities that may be available in any elite private school. Vocational education is included in a way…
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Solomon Grace International School is a private secondary school in Lagos. School boasts of well-designed laboratories, and maintains a lively culture. Graduating students, in a symbolic gesture, pass on a torch, called the torch of excellence, to representatives of the newer generation. The school’s colorful campus may have been purposed to invigorate student senses in…
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St. Gregory’s College is a boys only public secondary school in Obalende, Lagos. The school was established in January 1928. Local curriculum is used and students are presented for the WAEC exams at the end of the six years training. The school, located in St. Gregory’s Rd., Opposite Officers mess, Obalende, Lagos, is owned by…
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Strategic Management is concerned about how and why top executives make important decisions for organizations, which are essential for proper understanding and prediction of organisational outcomes. In the past, studies have focused attention on the Chief Executive Officer. However, as organisations become more complex, decision making process get devolved and diffused such that key decisions…
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Igbobi College, located in Isaac John’s street, Lagos, was founded in 1932, in response to the changing colonial education code. Authorities of the Anglican CMS and the Wesleyan Methodist Mission, being convinced of the effectiveness of an academic environment under Christian influence had designed a spacious community that will house both students and instructors but the school’s…
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Subomi Balogun is a banker, founder of the First City Monument Bank, and patriarch of an emerging professional dynasty. Subomi Balogun was born 1934 in Ijebu Ode to a native authority court register of colonial Nigeria. He had his secondary education at Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos afterwhich he worked as a teacher for a year.…