Category: People
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Taslim Olaniyan Atanda Olatunde; Actor in the Yoruba genre of nollyowod. Olaniyan was born on March 3 1939 at Ibadan (Oyo) into an average family. He began acting from school after having seen elder brother, Kola who had gone into acting in 1962. He went to the University of Ibadan where he obtained a Diploma…
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Rasaki Salawu; Pioneer Director of operations of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC. In 1988, he was invited to head the newly formed FRSC based on his novel initiative that led eleven years before to the founding of the Oyo state corps on road safety which he ideated. Salawu fell out with the more renowned…
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Dolapo Oni; Also, Marcy Dolapo Oni. Television presenter in Nigeria. In 2015, Dolapo Oni launched her own TV show, The Marcy Project on DSTV’s Africa Magic, a lifestyle and entertainment programme with a mixture of web features, pre-recorded video footages and fashion tips.[i] Dolapo was one of the two finalists in a talent hunt project…
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Jubril Aminu, Politician and educationist, also a cardiologist. In the event leading up to the Ali Must Go Students riot in 1978, Aminu as National Universities Commission, NUC Executive Secretary, asked the Supreme Military Council to introduce 50k per meal to augment the government subsides[i]. Showing versatility in his scholarship, Aminu played a significant role…
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Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru; Tax practitioner and accountant, Chairman of Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS during President Obasanjo years. Ifueko was the first female professional staff hired by Arthur Andersen, a leading accounting firm in 1983, rising through the ranks to become the first female professional manager as well as the first female national partner. As…
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Economist, as cabinet minister belonged to the crop of energetic technocrats of President Obasanjo’s second term in her position as Nigeria’s finance minister. Before her appointment, Okonjo-Iweala was Vice-President of the World Bank. While in office, she headed a team of 13 other ministers largely responsible for fashioning the administration’s series of economic…
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Gab Osuagwu-Iheukwumere; Nigerian journalist. Gab was also an author, broadcaster, publisher, educationist, theologian, administrator and public relations expert. He was a recipient of the Queen’s Medal Award in Best African Reporter category. Gab authored two captivating books, including The Second Coming Of The Military In Nigeria. This and his other intellectual endeavors earned him academic…
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Prosper Okpue; Nigerian Insurance Administrator, recipient of awards in insurance management, the industry which he joined in 1978. Okpue is the Chief Executive Officer of Insurance Brokers of Nigeria (IBN), the foremost insurance broking outfit in the country. IBN is a part of the MARSH Group, the largest insurance and risk management advisor worldwide, with…
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Jadesola Akande; Law professor and first female Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, LASU, in 1989. Born November 15, 1938, Jadesola who is daughter of a lawyer father and a teacher mother is the third of her parents’ four children. She wanted to read dentistry after her secondary school at St. Anne’s, Ibadan, but…