Jubril Aminu

Jubril Aminu

Jubril Aminu, Politician and educationist, also a cardiologist. In the event leading up to the Ali Must Go Students riot in 1978, Aminu as National Universities Commission, NUC Executive…

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Augustus Aikhomu being decorated as military chief

Augustus Aikhomu

Aikhomu Augustus; Nigerian Naval Officer who served as the de facto Vice-President of Nigeria during the Ibrahim Babangida military junta from 1986 to 1993. Also once a Chief of General Staff,…

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Prof. Gambari

Gambari Agboola Ibrahim

Ibrahim Agboola Gambari; Diplomat and professor of International Relations who holds the record of being the longest serving Ambassador or Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United…

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Siemeon Adebo

Adebo Simeon

Simeon Adebo; Public servant of the Nigerian first post-colonial generation. He was head of the Western region civil service during the political impasse that led to the Emergency rule which was…

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Kayode Fayemi

Kayode Fayemi

Kayode Fayemi was a pro-democracy activist of the Generals Babangida and Abacha eras, later joining politics to become governor of Ekiti state in 2010 and a cabinet member of President Buhari…

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Olusegun Obasanjo

Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian civil war hero on the federal side, Statesman, and Head of the federal government as military general, 1976-79, and elected president, 1999-2007. Obasanjo, descendant…

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Frederick Lugard

Frederick Lugard was the first Governor General of Nigeria, who in January 1, 1914 amalgamated the Northern and the Southern protectorates to form one country under the British empire. Lugard was…

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Military men of the 60s

Military Oligarchy

Military Oligarchy is a system in which political power rests with a few military officers. The military is a great and ancient profession, which requires appropriate demeanor and exemplary…

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Mayor of Lagos campaigning in 1952

Lagos Town Council

Lagos Town Council was the administrative unit of Lagos created in 1950 under a new local government law in succession to the council created by the ordinance of 1941. Although the Oba of Lagos,…

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Meritocrat Nigerian students at Harvard converse with friends.

Meritocracy

Meritocracy is an elite group whose progress is earned with their intellectual prowess, rather than wealth or class privilege. The term also describes the practise of this form of government….

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