Category: Media – Print
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Jerry Gana; senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Chairman, defunct Mass Mobilisation for Social andEconomic Recovery, MAMSER, Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Information and Culture, Cooperation and National Orientation. Jerry Gana, a professor, was also political adviser to President Obasanjo. Gana was a foundation secretary of the ruling People’s Democratic Party; PDP, ruling…
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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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Jacob Festus Ade Ajayi; Distinguished Historian, university professor, and one-time Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos. He became a visiting professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles Summer School, in 1963. He is a fellow, Ghana Historical Society, GHS, Overseas Historical Association, OHA. Ade Ajayi was also foundation fellow of the Historic Society of…
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Raph Uwechue; Pan Africanist and humanist, as a career diplomat, he joined the Nigerian Foreign Service at its inception in 1960, and served in Cameroun, Pakistan, and Mali. Raph was Nigeria’s first diplomatic envoy to France, where he opened the Nigerian embassy in Paris in 1966. Ambassador Uwechue also served with UNESCO in Paris as…
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Michael Chukelu Kafu Ajuluchukwu; Journalist and politician. Ajachukwu played a significant role in Nigeria’s quest for independence. Ajuluchukwu was born February 10, 1921. After attending CMS Central School, Nnewi and Higher College, Yaba, he dabbled into journalism, where he rose to the post of assistant editor of Daily Comet. He later went in search of the golden fleece abroad, studying…
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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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Dele Giwa; Journalist and executive of the Newswatch magazine, a foremost Nigerian periodical founded in 1984. Allusions to the motive behind Giwa’s assassination in 19 October 1986 did not abate several years after his death. His journalistic career which began in the United States reached its prime in a four year period interluded by notable…
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Ernest Sessi Ikoli, Nigerian first generation politician and journalist who gained a reputation in the 1920s as a colorful nationalist was born in 1893 at Brass, now part of Rivers State. The foray of this cerebral Ijaw man into newspaper publishing after the First World War would provide the energy and the participation that was…