Category: People
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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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Joy Angela Ogwu; professor of International Relations, was the first female Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), which was established on December 13, 1961 as the foreign policy think-tank of the central government. Ogwu was conferred in 2004 with the Order of Federal Republic of Nigeria (OFR). Born on August 22, 1946,…
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Peju Ogunmola; Nollywood actress of the Yoruba genre is the daughter of Kola Ogunmola, one of Hubert Ogunde‘s contemporaries. Peju got her first role as Kadara in Ade Love in 1979, during her secondary school days. And in 1982 a role was scripted for her as Pero in Jaiyesimi by Hubert Ogunde. Then in 1983,…
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Emmanuel Nwanze; Nigerian Professor of Biochemistry and International scholar, who became Vice-Chancellor, University of Benin. Nwanze was twice a fellow of the Swedish International Seminars in Physics and Chemistry. Nwanze was a government scholar while at the University of Ibadan. He studied Chemistry between 1968 and 1972. He secured another government scholarship to do his…
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Ekwueme Lazarus; Nigerian musicologist, an alumnus of Royal College of Music, London and the first professor of music made in Nigeria, University of Lagos. Laz Ekwueme was born January 28, 1936 in Orumba, now in Anambra State. He was educated formally at Ludwig-maxirrias University of Munich Germany. Yale University New Heaven, Connecticut, United States and…
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Joseph Adelakun; fondly called Ayewa, is a gospel singer, songwriter and televangelist. While still a moslem, Adelakun believes he heard the voice of Christ in his dream. This first spiritual epiphany came the night he first tried the Indian hemp. Later that day, while sitting among friends he heard someone say, “I want to use…
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Muhammadu Buhari; Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria Armed Forces from December 31, 1983, to August 26,1985, before he was overthrown by Ibrahim Babangida. Buhari was also chairman, Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF. After futile effort at attaining presidency under the flagships of the All Nigerian People’s Party, ANPP, in the 2003 and 2007 and…
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John Olusola Bayeshea; Lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, called to the bar in 1982. In a celebrated case, Bayeshea acted as counsel to 49 lecturers sacked by the authorities of the University of llorin, securing a reinstatement for them by order of the Supreme Court in 2010. Before him, the lecturers did not have…