Category: Technology
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Adesida Ilesanmi is an Engineering professor with outstanding work in the field of Nanotechnology. Adesida was born 1949 in Ifon, Ondo State.He obtained his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently went on to develop a body of work in the processing of semiconductors and other materials…
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Obateru Akinruntan is the CEO of Obat Oil, and flamboyant monarch of Ugbo area of Ondo State. Obateru was born into a local royal family of Ilaje in Jirinwo, a town close to the Nigerian Atlantic coastline. Through the influence of his mother, Obateru had developed interest in the oil business, hawking gallons of petrol in…
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Michael Adenuga is the Oil magnate owner of Nigeria’s second largest telecommunication company, Globacom. Adenuga was born 1953 in Ibadan to schoolteacher father from Ijebu Igbo, after whom he was named, and businesswoman mother who gave him the seed capital for his venture which made him at the age of 26, a millionaire. He was…
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Ola Orekunrin is an Health expert and innovator, born 1986 in England to Nigerian parents from Ekiti State. Orekurin grew up in a foster home in the English seaside town of Lowesoft, an all white community. In the philosophies of her foster mother, Doreen, her mind grew. At the age of 15, she was admitted…
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Olagoke Olabisi is the Engineering professor who invented several processes for which not less than eight patents were granted. Olagoke was born in Osogbo and his education at the Government College Ibadan which ended in distinction fetched him a 4-year full scholarship to study Chemical Engineering at Purdue University from where he graduated in 1969.…
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Olajumoke Adenowo is an architect, designer of the Federal Ministry of Finance building in Abuja, and a dozen of outstanding corporate, federal and state government buildings. Olajumoke was as a youth, precocious, graduating at the age of 19 at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife and later with record breaking masters degree in Architecture. Born 1968…
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Old Secretariat served as the Government secretariat with office for the colonial secretary and a large number of ministers. Conceptualization of the Old secretariat building, designed and built by the public work department (PWD) of the colonial government, was precipitated by the 1906 declaration of Lagos as the seat of Southern Nigeria. It was built…
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The Yoruba News FEB 10th, 1925 ON TOWN PLANNING OPPOURTUNITY Shakespeare was right when he sang: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, if taken at the flow, leads to success” This trite saying also applies to the affairs of nations and towns. There is presently a good opportunity for the Ibadan Native…
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Oshodi Court, historical building and ancient home of the 19th Century warlord, Landuji Oshodi is located on Oshodi street on the Epetedo area on north Lagos Island, it is one of the finest traditional family compounds. Some members of the family fled the city with Kosoko when the British attacked during the reign of Kosoko but…
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RADIOPHONE CURIOSITY By Adekambi, Editor, Eko Akete, 2 February, 1924 Television another possible scientific invention Seeing Wimbeley from Lagos!!! To make a telephone call upon a friend or a businessman at Agege and indulge in a lively conversation in the ordinary way is wonderful enough. To receive a cable-gram sent from London, Lisbon, or New York…