Women You Should Know: Khadija Bukar Abba Ibrahim
Khadija Bukar Abba-Ibrahim was born on the 6th of January 1967. The Nigerian politician and was All Progressives Congress member of the House of Representatives for Damatura/Gujba/Gulani/Tarmuwa in Yobe State was born to the family of Waziri Ibrahim and attended Kaduna Capital School, Kaduna, Nigeria between 1972 and 1977. In 1978, she began her […]
Women You Should Know: Betty Abah
Betty Abah was born on March 6th, 1974. She was born in Otukpo, Benue State, Middle Belt region of Nigeria. She obtained a first degree in English and Literary Studies from the University of Calabar and a Masters’s in English Literature from the University of Lagos. She is a Nigerian journalist, author and women […]
Nigerians In History: Idris Legbo Kutigi
Idris Legbo Kutigi OFR, GCON was born on the 31st of December 1939. He was born in Kutigi, North-Western State (now located in the Lavun Local Government Area of Niger State), Kutigi attended elementary school in that town and middle and secondary school in Bida. He then moved on to Government College (now known as […]
Nigerians In History: Inuwa Abdulkadir
Inuwa Abdulkadir was a Nigerian lawyer and politician who was National vice-chairman (North West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He previously served as Federal Minister of Youth Development from 2012 to 2013, before falling out with President Goodluck Jonathan and supporting President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election. Read more about Nigerians in […]
Women You Should Know: Rita Orji
Rita Orji is a Nigerian-Canadian Computer Science Professor, a Canada Research Chair in Persuasive Technology, and the Director of the Persuasive Computing Lab at Dalhousie University in Canada. A native of Enugu State, Nigeria and of Igbo extraction. Rita was born and raised by parents (Mr. and Mrs. Maria and Okonkwo Orji) who never […]
Women You Should Know: Oluwatoyin Asojo
Asojo was born in Nigeria and volunteered at an orphanage whilst at school. Her father was a chief laboratory scientist at the University of Ibadan, and she would spend several hours a week in the lab. She attended the International School Ibadan and applied for a United World College scholarship that would allow her to […]
Nigerians In History: Funmilayo Olayinka
Olayinka was born in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. She attended Holy Trinity Grammar School Ibadan, where she obtained her first school leaving certificate with distinction. She subsequently proceeded to Olivet Baptist High School, Oyo State, Nigeria, where she obtained her Higher School Certificate (HSC). She held a master’s degree in public administration and a Bachelor […]
The First Nigerian ICT Company In Africa To Assemble And Manufacture Computers And Computer Parts?
Florence Seriki MFR was born on the 16th of August 1963. She was the founder and CEO of Omatek Ventures Plc., the first Nigerian ICT company in Africa to assemble and manufacture computers and computer parts like computer cases, speakers, keyboards, mouse. Seriki was born in Lagos but from Delta State. She had her secondary […]
Nigerians In History: Gamaliel Onosode
An Urhobo man, born and raised in Sapele, a suburban city in the current Delta State by a disciplined father, he sometimes credited the strict family background and practice as being a complementary factor in his success as a disciplined civil servant and corporate administrator. Read more about Nigerians in history Gamaliel Oforitsenere Onosode […]
Men You Should Know: Onyeka Akumah
Onyeka Akumah (born 21 October 1984) is a technology entrepreneur with a focus on the transportation, agriculture, real estate, and media sectors. He is popularly known as the founder of Treepz Inc. Prior to founding his company in 2019, Onyeka Akumah was the CEO of Farmcrowdy. He is credited to have been involved in […]
Men You Should Know: Bolaji Abdullahi
Bolaji Abdullahi was born in the year 1969. He is a Nigerian Politician and Writer from Kwara State. He served in the cabinet of the Ex-Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, as the Honourable Minister of Youth Development in July 2011, and defunct as the Minister of Sports. He is the author of these works “Sweet […]
Do You Know Ògúnwán̄dé Abím̄bọ́lá? The First PhD Graduate of the University of Lagos
Chief Ògúnwán̄dé “Wán̄dé” Abím̄bọ́lá was born on the 24th of December 1932. He is a Nigerian academician, a professor of Yoruba language and literature, and a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University). He has also served as the Majority Leader of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. […]
Men You Should Know: Murtala Nyako
Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako (Rtd), GCON, CFR: rcds, D.Agric. (H.C.) was elected Executive Governor of Adamawa State, Nigeria, taking office in May 2007. Prior to then he served in the Navy, at one time being military governor of Niger State, and being appointed Chief of Naval Staff in December 1989. Read more about Men you […]
Men You Should Know: Oluwole Babafemi Familoni
Familoni was born on 24 November 1957 to Mr. Gabriel Familoni and Mrs. Alice Familoni of Isape Street, Ido Ekiti in Ido-Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State. Attended St. John Anglican Primary School in 1963 and ended at St Peters Anglican Primary school in Ikere Ekiti in 1969. He later attended Modern School, […]
Men You Should Know: Waziri Kolo Ibrahim
Alhaji Waziri Kolo Ibrahim was a Kanuri businessman from Borno State, Nigeria, who became a prominent politician and party leader during the Nigerian Second Republic. He was one of the original founders and financiers of the Nigerian People’s Party, but in 1978 left the party to form the Great Nigeria People’s Party (GNPP). As […]
Do You Know The First Female VC Of The University of Lagos?
Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola was born in 1958. Ogunsola was raised at the University of Ibadan where her father, Akin Mabogunje lectured. As a child, she mimicked medical practitioners by using dolls as patients, while offering medical care to them. She attended Queen’s College, Lagos. Between 1974 and 1982, she obtained her first degree from the […]