Category: People
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Ashimi Olawale; songwriter and rapper, known as Brymo. An only child, Brymo grew up in Okokomaiko, Lagos, a fairly nice neighbourhood and a mixed environment of peoples in different economic ladder. He spent whole days on the streets playing football, like in the ghetto. He dropped out of the Lagos State University, Ojo, where he…
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Taiwo Joseph Ogunjobi; Nigerian defender who later became a football administrator, born in 1953. Ogunjobi started the game of football from when he was growing up in Idi Oro in Mushin, Lagos. He attended Holy Trinity Primary School, Ebute Ero, and moved to his home town, Ilesha, where he had his secondry school education at…
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Jude Abaga, fondly called Mr Incredible or simply MI, brought enormous creativity to rap music in 2006. MI grew up in Jos where he lived with his father who was a pastor and mother who made gospel music. He had a fulfilled childhood and read a lot of books because the family had no television…
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Amos Tutuola; (1920-97) Novelist counted among a unique group of mythmakers who deployed significant aspects of oral tradition not just as a flowery tribute to literary distinctiveness, but as a culminated contribution to the Nigerian literary space with both a didactic and functional signature. Tutuola is known for novels that chronicle tales of marvels and…
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Adetoyese Laoye; Timi of Ede. Before he ascended the throne in the 1940s, he was a church organist, a great dancer, a good singer, a lover of culture, and a historian. He was so culturally minded that he turned Ede to one of the nation’s cultural shrines to which people from far and near made…
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Emmy Collins, born of Nigerian and Dutch parents, is a London based avant garde fashion designer who is well known for his sartorial taste in fashion. Also a fashion blogger, Emmy have declined Nigerian artistes who approached him for styling several times, preferring to style only persons who have a strong personality that could pull…
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Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje ; Professor of Geography and first African elected foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences, in the line of Charles Darwin and Martin Luther King Jnr. The don, popularly known as the Father of Geography in Africa, have published topics on, and is known internationally for his research in…
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Kabiru Yusuf; Kastina born media chief and executive of Daily Trust, widely circulated and printed in Lagos and Abuja. Born in June 1956, Kabiru Yusuf is an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University and University of Toronto, Canada. He began his journalism career in 1984 after a stint as a teacher. He has at various times…
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Taiwo Malumi; Nigerian medical doctor, Ilaje born and University of Ibadan-trained Malumi berthed the first air ambulance service in West Africa when he established Medic Air, first air ambulance in Nigeria in 1994 after successfully turning a four-bed space hospital to 60-bed space. Malumi’s Funtai Hospital and Maternity Homes in Port-Harcourt, River State capital, was…