Category: People
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Dabiri-Erewa Abike; Member, Nigerian House of Representatives of the 4th to the 6th Assembly and at different times, Chairman of the House Committees on Diaspora Affairs and Media and Publicity respectively. Dabiri-Erewa was first elected into the House of Representatives to represent Ikorodu Constituency of Lagos State in 2003 and reelected in 2007. She also…
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Irene Chigbue; Director-General Of the Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE) who succeeded Dr. Julius Bala in March 2005. She was first involved with the Nigeria’s privatization programme between 1989 to 1991 when she was engaged as a legal officer with the then Technical Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation (TCPC). With the transformation of the TCPC…
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John Pepper Clark; Nigerian folklorist, poet, essayist and playwright who draws on his graphic experience to empower the poetry, the songs and, indeed, the grandest engagements of his Ijaw people. He is described in biography by Femi Osofisan as the main animating force of African poetry. Clark’s vocation as a poet commenced with Juuenillla, part…
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BUKAR Abdullah; Nigerian engineer instrumental in the multinational oil company Shell’s master plan to put out gas flares and the laying of the foundation of making Nigerian gas commercially useful both in the local and international market. In support of the Nigerian government’s objectives to develop local capacity and capability, Bukar fostered the domestication of…
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Jessie Edem Bassey; First Nigerian lady to work in the refinery for Shell-BP in Nigeria. Jessie transferred from the Shell-BP in UK to the Nigerian office just before the Civil War. During the war, she lost her job with Shell-BP, as the company terminated all operations in the Eastern region. She was re-appointed after the…
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Bakare Tunde; Nigerian Pastor and running mate of Muhammadu Buhari in the unsuccessful 2011 presidential race. Born on 11 November 1954 to a polygamous Muslim family at Iporo Sodeke in Abeokuta, Bakare never met his father who died when he was only two. He was brought up by his mother, Abigail Ebudola Bakare. He attended…
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Muyiwa Peter Awodiya; Cultural crusader in Nigeria and Professor of Theatre Arts and Mass Communication at the University of Benin. Awodiya lamented the decay that has engulfed the country and eroded its cultural values in his treatise, Leadership Failure and Education, published in the 14 July 2009 edition of The Guardian Newspaper. Born in 14…
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Ayoola Kehinde; Engineer and veteran of the Nigerian telecommunication sector. In 1985, when the Nigeria External Telecommunications Limited, NET and the technical arm of the Posts and Telegraph, P&T Departments were to be merged, Ayooola and his colleague were those who coined the prominent designation: Nigeria Telecommunications Limited, NITEL. Origin Ayoola is one half…
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Atuyota Allelujah; Nigerian Stand-up comedian, known as Ali Baba. He does shows for big corporate concerns, including oil firms and banks. Born in Warri, Delta State to an educationist father, Ali Baba moved to Lagos with his mother and father who got transferred to the Nigerian Army Education Corps. He later attended St Michael’s Primary…
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Michael Kaase Aondoakaa; Attorney General and the most controversial in President Umaru Yar’Adua’s government. Aondoakka was part of the subcommittee that produced a white paper which upturned the Justice Uwais electoral reform recommendations[i]. Childhood Aondoakaa’s father was a polygamous district head of several children with his mother the most senior among the wives. He…