Folawaiyo Wahab

Folawiyo Iyanda Wahab; industrialist, known as the Baba Adini of Nigeria and a recipient of the nation’s honour of the Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR, born to a successful Lagos…

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Ihonvbere Julius

Ihonvbere Julius Ornozuanvo; pan-African scholar, human rights activist, and professor of Political Science, born on June 25, 1956. Ihonvbere studied at University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo…

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Azikiwe Uche

Azikiwe Uche; Lecturer, administrator and wife of Nigeria’s first president, Nnamdi Azikiwe, born  on February 4, 1947 in Ogui, Enugu State. Uche schooled at Salvation Army School, Ogui,…

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Wasiu Ayinde

Wasiu Ayinde; born in 1957, the episodic odyssey of his career began in 1966 at the age of nine as a small-time amateur singer in Agarawu area of Lagos Island. He dropped out of secondary school…

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Olanlokun Samuel

Samuel Olajire Olanlokun; Children book author, novelist, folklorist, poet, who as a distinguished librarian and teacher attained the position of the president, West African Association of Library…

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Akinwunmi Ambode

Ambode Akinwunmi; Lagos financial strategist who was elected Governor of the state, succeeding Babatunde Fashola in 2015. At his prime, Ambode showed the prospect of a promising person. At 21, he…

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Murtala Sule

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…

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Oladipo Diya

Diya, Donaldson Oladipo; De facto second in command to Nigeria Head of State, General Sani Abacha(1993-97) born in Odogbolu, Ogun State April 3, 1944. He is a retired soldier, lawyer and former…

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Oluremi Aina

Oluremi Raphael Aina; Educationist, professor of business education and vocational training whose teaching career saw him teaching at the Nigeria Defence Academy, NDA, where he taught several of…

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Farouk Abdulmutallab

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: Fundamentalists whose failed bid in 2010 to bomb an airplane with 289 people on board lend credence to fears that Nigeria was becoming a fertile ground for extremist…

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