Category: People
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Yemi Osinbajo; Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under President Buhari. Osinbajo, a Senior Adocate of Nigeria who became professor of Law at the age of 33 is a former attorney-general of Lagos state and commissioner for justice. He is a resident pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. As Vice Presidient,…
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Victor Uwaifo; Nigerian musician. With his first album which was released in 1960 and titled Akugbe/Okhorhornu mu me” (meaning “unity is strength) Victor enjoyed an early success. In 1966, he became the first African to win a record Gold Disc. After what he called an esoteric encounter with mamy water or mermaid in 1967 at…
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Shehu Idris; Nigerian monarch in the northern region, in 1975 ascended the throne as Emir of Zauzzau corrupted as Zaria by the British Colonialists, a position in which he carried out traditional responsibilities, conflict resolution among his subjects with an obligation to give every issue the sense of urgency and objectivity it deserves. His installation…
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Oshoffa Samuel Bilewu Founder of Celestial Church of Christ, an African Instituted Aladura church identified by white garment uniform accompanied by bare footedness. His ministry which spanned thirty-eight years were defining in those years for Christianity both in the country of its origin, Benin, and Nigeria. At his demise in 1985, delegates were sent by…
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Ogunlesi Adebayo; Investment Banker and Lawyer, member of the short-lived 16-man American Economic, Strategic and Policy Forum under President Donald Trump was trained in Harvard University, serving as an editor in the Harvard Law Review as student. He worked as a law clerk to a Justice, and attorney in a New York law firm. After…
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George Orji; Nigerian pastor martyred by terrorist group after his capturing at his church in Maiduguri, Borno State. George Orji was appointed as a Pastor by the Good News Church on 25th March, 1999 and posted to the Riverside Church. He served as pastor in charge of the headquarters church from June, 1999 to March,…
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Ndayako Umar Sanda; Monarch and administrator, was the chairman of the Technical Committee set up by the federal government on the review of the structure of local government councils in Nigeria. Young Ndayako’s first appointment in the former Northern Nigerian Government was as an assistant secretary in the old Ministry of Local Government. In February,…
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Sarki Mukhtar; Major General of the Nigerian army, appointed in 2006 as as the National Security Adviser. Mukhtar served before as head of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, DMI, under General Sani Abacha, and was also Nigeria’s envoy to Russia. Mukhatar, a hard-nosed soldier, started an impressive military career that spanned 31 years at the…
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Moronkeji Omotayo Onalaja; Justice of the Nigerian Court of Appeal, described by Kayode Esho, Justice of the Supreme Court as a pride to the Nigerian law who would feature forever in the country’s judicial history. Onalaja’s erudition ensured that throughout his career on the Bench, none of his judgments was ever upturned by the Supreme…