Category: Social

  • Ebola

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    Ebola virus in 2014 claimed about 11,000 lives in countries across Africa, including Nigeria. It all started on July 20 when an Asky Airline flight originating from Liberia landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. One of the passengers, a Liberian diplomat, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, collapsed and was rushed to the First Consultant Medical…

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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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  • Shooting Stars of Ibadan

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    Shooting Stars of Ibadan: was one of the most decorated club sides in Nigeria, alongside Angers and the defunct Stationery Stores T.C. of Lagos. It dominated the country during ‘70s and ‘80s. Shooting Stars became the first Nigerian team to lift the African Cup Winners Cup (now Confederation Cup) in 1976.  The club, established in…

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  • Fundamentalism

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    Fundamentalism; is ideological or religious intolerance. There is a clear demarcation between terrorism at an international level and the rise of fundamentalism in northern Nigeria as a region. There are many factors that led to the low level of tolerance and peace in this part of country. First is the problem of illiteracy. There is a…

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  • Kanu Nwankwo

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    Nwankwo Kanu : Nigeria’s most-decorated player and one of the few players to have won the Premier League, FA Cup, Champions League, IUEFA Cup and an Olympic Gold Medal. Time and again, comparison of Kanu who ended his international career following Nigeria’s exit from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa with any budding talent…

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  • Teslim Fatusi

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    Teslim Fatusi Switzerland-based winger, Serviette and Polonia Warszawa star. Born 1978, Fatusi plied his trade in Tunisia, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam before calling it quits with active football in 2008, declining to follow his ex-teammates into coaching. Fatusi’s career took a dive after his gold gift to Head…

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  • Ajibola Ojesola

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    Ajibola Ojesola; Popular television presenter and actor, started acting as a student of the Polytechnic of Ibadan. Ajibola  joined a drama society at the University of Ibadan. Then, he would leave my school and join them to act on stage. Before he was admitted into the Polytechnic of Ibadan, he was offered admission into the…

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  • Taiwo Ogunjobi

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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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  • Dennis Joseph Slattery

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    Dennis Joseph Slattery, a Catholic reverend father. His death in July 2003 was mourned for his glorious achievements in Nigerian education sector. Born on February 29, 1916 in South Ireland, Slattery, who was ordained priest on December 17, 1939, began his missionary work in 1941 in Ilawe-Ekiti in the old Western Region, where under one…

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  • Kabiru Yusuf

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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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