Category: Technology
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Olutunmbi Maduka; the first Nigerian registered female engineer. As a recipient of several awards, she attended various seminars and presented papers, including the report on the commercialisation of National Electric Power Authority, now Power Holding Company of Nigeria. Maduka was born to the Daniel Dada and Grace Olufunmilayo Layinka of the Loro and Odole chieftaincy…
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Gillian Hopwood; British-Nigerian photographer and architect, distinguished, with her husband, John Godwin for the Lagos heritage project which documents the history and legacies of Lagos in photos. Husband and wife were born in 1928 and 1927 respectively, and both qualified as architects through the Architectural Association, London. The couple came to Lagos in 1954 and…
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Ogunlesi Adebayo; Investment Banker and Lawyer, member of the short-lived 16-man American Economic, Strategic and Policy Forum under President Donald Trump was trained in Harvard University, serving as an editor in the Harvard Law Review as student. He worked as a law clerk to a Justice, and attorney in a New York law firm. After…
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Aigboje Higo; Nigerian publisher whose industry and resourcefulness brought Heinemann Educational Publishers UK into reckoning in Nigeria. When in 1964, Heinemann wanted to establish shop in Nigeria, it settled for Aigboje Higo who was at the time a school principal content with his job. Higo wrote back rejecting the offer but after more pressing, and…
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BUKAR Abdullah; Nigerian engineer instrumental in the multinational oil company Shell’s master plan to put out gas flares and the laying of the foundation of making Nigerian gas commercially useful both in the local and international market. In support of the Nigerian government’s objectives to develop local capacity and capability, Bukar fostered the domestication of…
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Jessie Edem Bassey; First Nigerian lady to work in the refinery for Shell-BP in Nigeria. Jessie transferred from the Shell-BP in UK to the Nigerian office just before the Civil War. During the war, she lost her job with Shell-BP, as the company terminated all operations in the Eastern region. She was re-appointed after the…
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Ayoola Kehinde; Engineer and veteran of the Nigerian telecommunication sector. In 1985, when the Nigeria External Telecommunications Limited, NET and the technical arm of the Posts and Telegraph, P&T Departments were to be merged, Ayooola and his colleague were those who coined the prominent designation: Nigeria Telecommunications Limited, NITEL. Origin Ayoola is one half…
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Port Harcourt is a Nigerian port city, on the northern bank of the Bonny River, 30 nautica miles from the Bight of Biafra in the Atlantic Ocean. The city, discovered while a small fishing port in 1901 by Viscount Harcourt, a colonial administrative officer became capital of the Rivers State, with the creation of Rivers…
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NEEDS, National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy was Nigeria’s home grown poverty reduction and socio-economic development strategy under Olusegun Obasanjo‘s presidency. This framework for actions, developed by a 35-member drafting committee was headed by Economic Adviser, Chukwuma Soludo. As reflected in Obasanjo’s address at the launching of the nationwide consultation on the initiative, caution was…
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Elegba S.B. is the Nigerian professor of physics, who in 1987 installed, commissioned and operated the first Neutron Generator in West Africa. Elegba was trained in Ukraine of the former Soviet Union and in the United States from where he acquired his doctorate degree in Theoretical Solid State Physics from the University of Oregon in…