Category: People
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Ephraim Omorose Ibukun Akpata; Nigeria’s Independent Electoral Commission INEC chair who organized elections in 1999 which ushered in Nigeria’s democracy after 15 years of military rule. Akpata was a retired justice of the Supreme Court working as private consultant on arbitration matters when he was appointed by General Abdulsalami Abubakar to head the newly formed…
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Erastus Akingbola; Nigerian banker. Akingbola’s inroad to banking started in 1971 when he secured appointment with Union Bank of Nigeria Ltd, As a bank clerk, he proceeded soon after to register for a professional course in Banking. This he did on a part-time basis. The turning point came in February 1989 after he had risen…
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Alao Adedayo; Publisher, Alaroye newspapers, a popular weekly vernacular tabloid among the Yoruba people of Nigeria. From 1985 when he was a Yoruba newsreader on the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, Adedayo had noticed a vacuum in the indigenous language newspapers and decided to fill it. Unable to convince partners about the idea of a Yoruba…
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Michael Ajomo; Nigerian Law professor who pioneered School of Law at the University of Lagos and University of Ilorin. He was conferred with the National Honour of the Officer of the Federal Republic in 2003. Place of Growth Michael Ayodele Ajomo was born in Okpe Akoko- Oke Ose Local Government Area (now in Edo…
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Alex Akinyele; Public Relations expert and politician. Akinyele was Minister for Information under the General Babangida regime form 1989-91. Once commended by Hilton Fyle, the presenter of BBC Network Africa as the best dressed man in Nigeria, Akinyele worked as the image maker of a military government experimenting a very unfavorable Structural Adjustment Programme[i]. Akinyele…
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Stanley Macebuh; Nigerian journalist, one of the most celebrated. Macebuh was pioneer Managing Director of The Guardian newspapers and special assistant to President Olusegun Obasanjo. He died March 2010. Places of Growth Born on December 28, 1942, Macebuh attended Government Primary School, Port Harcourt, and Ngwa High School, Aba, before he proceeded to the…
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Layiwola Peju; Nee Olowu, leading figure among the new generation of metal sculptures in Nigeria. A grand-daughter to Oba Akenzua II of Benin, her career was shaped by the Royal Art of the kingdom. Peju’s mother who did metal casting in Benin at a higher degree was her earliest influence. When young, she helped her…
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LADAN Shehu; Nigerian lawyer in Kaduna State, Shehu Ladan is the Group Executive Director, Commercial and Investment, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. He was born on 21 September 1952 in Kaduna, attended N.A. Primary School, Hidun Wada, Kaduna from 1960-1966, and Shelleh Sabbah College, now Sarduana Memorial College, Kaduna from 1967-1971. Ladan was trained professionally…