Category: Government
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Theophilus Danjuma; Military general who played crucial roles in the shaping of post-independence Nigeria. Danjuma who made huge fortunes in Nigeria’s extractive industry announced his foundation with the sum of $100 million in 2009[i]. The one-time Chief of Army Staff, COAS, and Minister of Defence is generally regarded as a doyen of military professionalism[ii]. Born…
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Third Marine Commando; Nigerian military unit and a major player in the Nigerian civil war, representing an important portion in the Nigerian history, especially between 1967 and 1970. Benjamin Adekunle, who was trained at Sandhurst, an excellent global military training institution located in the United Kingdom, raised and moulded into a credible fighting force the…
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Ebitu Okoh Ukiwe; Nigeria’s first chief of general staff. Ukiwe was military governor of Niger State, 1977-78, military administrator of Lagos State, 1978-79 and chief of general staff, 1985-86. A war generalissimo, Ukiwe pitched tent with the Biafran side during the 30-month-old Nigerian civil war, proving his mantle on the battlefield. However, after the war.…
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Ahmadu Bello University: Federal Government of Nigeria owned university in Zaria. On 4 October 1962, the University of Northern Nigeria was founded in Zaria. The second largest in Africa, surpassed only by the University of Cairo, its primary focus at inception was to provide quality education to Nigerians of Northern extraction who were believed to…
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Ethanol; is an alcohol derived from grains like corn and tubers of cassava[i]. It is emerging as an important motor fuel in view of the Kyoto Protocol Agreement to which Nigeria is a signatory. Ethanol is easy to use in combustion engines, requiring none to minor modifications, it has a higher octane rating compared to…
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Nigerian Content is defined as the quantum of composite value added or created in the Nigerian economy through the utilisation of Nigerian human and material resources for the provision of goods and services to the petroleum industry within acceptable quality, safety and environment standards in order to stimulate the development of indigenous capabilities. Despite…
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Olusola Oke; Ondo state politician and lawyer. Oke was the National Legal Adviser of the PDP between 2008 and 2012. He was elected into the House of Representatives from representing Ilaie/Ese-Odo Constituency in 1992. In 2000, he was appointed into the pioneer board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). At NDDC, his team executed…
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Okilo Melford; First democratically elected governor of old Rivers State. Okilo Melford was born November 30 1933 in Emakalakala now part of Ogbia Local Council of Bayelsa State. During his tenure, Okilo established the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, RSUST. Okilo Melford attended Teachers Training College, Diobu, Port Harcourt, Christian College, Florida, United…
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Ernest Shonekan; Industrialist who headed Interim National Government of Federal Republic of Nigeria, from August to November, 1993. Shonekan was a Chairman/Managing Director, UAC of Nigeria Limited, 1980-93. He led the Vision 2010 committee under the regime of General Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s military ruler[i]. Born May 9, 1936 in Lagos but an Indigene of Abeokuta[ii],…
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Alexander Chika Okafor; Nigerian salesman and industrialist. From the sales of toothpick from Ghana, Okafor graduated to buying goods by sea and air from Hong Kong and Taiwan. His conglomerate which employs some five thousand workers consists of lubricant, plastic and soap plants have tank farms and petroleum product processing plant. In the upstream, it…