Category: Politics – General
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Olusegun Agagu was a politician and scholarly governor of Ondo state from 2003 to 2007. Born in 1948, Agagu, being the only boy on his mother’s side of the family, had a highly-sheltered life until he left Okitipupa at the age of ten, to live with his older cousin who brought him up until he…
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Olusegun Osoba, is the journalist and politician who twice became the governor of Ogun state. Osoba was born in 1941 and educated at Methodist Boys’ High School, Lagos between 1956 and 1960. Osoba obtained a diploma on journalism from the University of Lagos in 1965 and also did journalism courses at Indiana University Bloomington. In his…
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Babatunde Fashola is the Thirteenth governor of Lagos State, (2007-2015), publicly acclaimed for his analytical skill and administrative competence. He is a recipient of the 2009 Yitzhak Rabin Centre for African Development Governor of the Decade Peace award and the 2010 Award of Excellence in Leadership of the Martin Luther King Jnr. Foundation. Born on…
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Abiola Ajimobi is a politician, born into a local political family in 16 December 1949 in Ibadan, about the time Awolowo’s Nigerian Tribune was established. His grandfather was an important Ibadan chief, and his uncle a Western Region Minister. His father too was a member of the House of Assembly. Ajimobi had his secondary education…
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Obafemi Awolowo was a statesman and philosopher, one of the principal founding fathers of Nigeria, revered like no other in southwest Nigeria politics. Awolowo was born 6 March 1909 in a small town, Ikenne, to Sopolu and Efunyela who were both early Christian converts. The death of his father in 1920 unsettled his life, but…
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National Union of Students was founded October 1939 in Abeokuta Grammar School among students at the urge of the school’s principal, Oludotun Ransome-Kuti. The Union, at inception, sought to establish unity among Nigerian nationalities. The NUS collaborated with the Nigerian Youth Circle in organizing a youth rally in Ojokoro in November 1943, with the likes…
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Tribalism in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is defined as loyalty to a tribe or other social group especially when combined with strong negative feelings for people outside the group. There have been accusations and counter accusations on who introduced tribalism into Nigerian politics. “Before the fall into tribalism,” in the view of these historians, there were…
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Tunji Olurin was a military governor of Oyo state, 1985 to 1988 and administrator of Ekiti State during the State of Emergency imposed on the state by President Obasanjo in 2006. He also led the ECOMOG force to Liberia between 1992 to 1993 during the country’s civil war. Olurin was born 1944 in Ilaro. He completed…
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June 12 is a holiday celebrated in many Nigerian states, declared by the Federal Government of President Buhari as a national holiday. June 12 commemorates the Nigerian presidential election of 1993 which has been described as the nation’s freest and fairest election and its first taste of true democratic process after years of military rule.…