Category: People

  • Azikiwe Uche

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    Azikiwe Uche; Lecturer, administrator and wife of Nigeria’s first president, Nnamdi Azikiwe, born  on February 4, 1947 in Ogui, Enugu State. Uche schooled at Salvation Army School, Ogui, Enugu, Ajeromi Central School, Lagos, Presbyterian School, Afikpa, Ebonyi State, Queen of the Rosary Secondary School, Abakaliki and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, Enugu State. She started…

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  • Wasiu Ayinde

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    Wasiu Ayinde; born in 1957, the episodic odyssey of his career began in 1966 at the age of nine as a small-time amateur singer in Agarawu area of Lagos Island. He dropped out of secondary school to face professional music in 1973. From waking Muslims up with songs during Ramadan to being a packer boy…

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  • Olanlokun Samuel

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    Samuel Olajire Olanlokun; Children book author, novelist, folklorist, poet, who as a distinguished librarian and teacher attained the position of the president, West African Association of Library and Information Science. In 1991, he was listed in the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership published by the American Biographical Association, Raleigh, North Carolina. Until his death on…

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  • Akinwunmi Ambode

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    Ambode Akinwunmi; Lagos financial strategist who was elected Governor of the state, succeeding Babatunde Fashola in 2015. At his prime, Ambode showed the prospect of a promising person. At 21, he obtained a degree in Accounting from the University of Lagos, Akoka. At 24, he earned a Masters Degree and qualified as a chartered accountant.…

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  • Murtala Sule

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    Murtala Sule: Film maker and  presenter of NTA 7 popular Sunday television programme, Lagbo Video. Murtala left secondary school in 1973 and joined LatdaFilms to learn film making. Murtala Sule went to University of Nigeria Nsukka from where he passed out with a Mass Communication degree, had worked with the Information Ministry for five years…

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  • Oladipo Diya

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    Diya, Donaldson Oladipo; De facto second in command to Nigeria Head of State, General Sani Abacha(1993-97) born in Odogbolu, Ogun State April 3, 1944. He is a retired soldier, lawyer and former Chief of General Staff., CGS during  Abacha regime. He was implicated in a phantom coup of 1997 against his boss and was sentenced…

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  • Oluremi Aina

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    Oluremi Raphael Aina; Educationist, professor of business education and vocational training whose teaching career saw him teaching at the Nigeria Defence Academy, NDA, where he taught several of Nigeria’s top military officers. The professor of international repute is a recipient of the Officer of the Federal Republic, OFR national award. Oluremi was the the first…

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  • Farouk Abdulmutallab

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    Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: Fundamentalists whose failed bid in 2010 to bomb an airplane with 289 people on board lend credence to fears that Nigeria was becoming a fertile ground for extremist recruitment. Farouk was a model student, keen, enthusiastic. Often he would stay behind to discuss items in the lesson or in the news. Farouk…

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  • David Dale

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    David Dale Herbert; one of the foremost masters of visual arts in Nigeria. Dale’s specialty is in illustration and graphic design, and he has won awards before university. After graduating from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1971 he had won gold and silver medals as well as a silver cup in international art contest organised…

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  • Diepreye Alamieyeseigha

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    Diepreye Alamieyeseigha; Bayelsa State Governor, 1999-2005, a proponent of resource control and the sovereignty for Ijaw nation other than Nigeria. DSP styled himself the “governor-general” of the Ijaw nation due to his influence among the ethnicity from Ondo to Cross Rivers. Following his celebrated corruption case, he was impeached by the state House of Assembly…

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