Category: People

  • Kukah Matthew Hassan

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    Matthew Hassan Kukah; Catholic priest in Nigeria and social critic, an engaging intellectual, author of memoirs about religion and politics, who also served as the General Secretary of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria. Kukah was ordained a priest in 1976 and became a bishop in 2011 when he was appointed to head the Sokoto Diocese.…

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  • MAKAMA Danko

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    Samu’ila Danko Makama; Demographer who conducted the first population census in Nigeria as chairman of National Population Commission NPC. Makama’s 2006 Census was a head count that was tailored to suit the millennium Development Goals. It showed the actual number of persons living in the country, the number of males and females, the age composition…

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  • CHIKWE Nkemafor

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    Nkemafor Nonyerem Chikwe; Nigerian politician and founding member of the People’s Democratic Party PDP. She was born in 1947 and graduated from Queens College of City University, USA in French Language. Chikwe came from the academia, being a lecturer to be appointed the Nigerian minister of Transport in 1999. She was later moved in a…

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  • Femi Pedro

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    Femi Pedro; Politician and banker, Olufemi become a strident voice in the politics of Lagos within a short stint of time. Coming from a banking career which lasted 23 years, Olufemi Pedro joined Nigerian politics of Lagos State in 1999, becoming within four and a half years the Deputy Governor to Bola Tinubu. Pedro’s attempt…

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  • Charles Oputa

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    Charles Oputa; Nigerian eccentric entertainer, often appearing with a scarf tied round his neck, nose and eyelids pierced and fixed with big earrings. Oputa, the first son of Chukwudifu Oputa, highly revered Justice of Supreme Court attended Suffolk University, where he read Mass Communication, majoring in speech communication. He was at Emerson University for his…

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  • OPUTA Chukwudifu

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    Oputa Chukwudifu Sylvester; Chair of the Human Rights Violations Investigations Commission, HRVIC, nominally called the Oputa Panel which was fashioned after the the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa as one of his first of President Obasanjo in office. Oputa is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, and pioneer Chief Judge of…

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  • Egwuatu Olisa

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    Egwuatu Olisa; sports administrator who as Technical Director of the Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) developed cricket in Nigeria. Young Egwuatu after years of active cricket playing caught the attention of Anambra state’s team selectors and he was invited into the state team, where he rose to stardom. He was saddled with the responsibility of developing…

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  • Bola Babalakin

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    Bola Babalakin; Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1992. Babalakin chaired before this appointment, the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up in January 1987 by military government of General Ibrahim Babangida to investigate the Federal Electoral Commission.   Origin Grandfather, Adeleye shared ancestry with the Owu who moved from the first Owu kingdom…

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  • ELESIN Tayo

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    Elesin Tayo; British-Nigerian TV star who has starred in widely acclaimed television soaps such as Law and Order UK, Holby City [BBC], Doctors [BBC]. Born in 1988, she became at 25 one of the very few black young people making strong incursion into the Hollywood and European TV film scenes. Tayo Elesin have acted professionally…

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  • Abdulsalami Abubakar

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    Abubakar Abdulsalami; Nigerian military Head of State from 1998 to May, 1999. Following the mysterious death of Abacha on June 8 and a month later of Abiola, the undeclared winner of the presidential elections five years before, the emerging General Abdulsalami Abubakar’s administration considered it expedient for a Yoruba to emerge as president ostensibly to…

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