Everyday Heroes

Everyday Hero-Henry Anumudu

South African anti-apartheid leader and philanthropist Nelson Mandela once said: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” This sentiment is particularly true in the case of a young Nigerian teacher named Henry Anumudu.

Everyday Heroes – Olaoluwa Abagun

Abagun was born in Lagos, she had her secondary education at Queens’ College, Lagos. In 2008, she graduated from Queens’ College Lagos, bagging the “Outstanding Service to College Life Award” for her strong leadership as the Deputy Head-Girl of the

Everyday Hero: Cornelius Gofung

Nigeria has been ranked among the poorest countries in the world with as much as 87 million of its 150 million people living in extreme poverty. For a country like that, seeing pupils dressed in shabby school uniforms and cut

Everyday Heroes- Chika Ofili

Chika Ofili is a 12-year-old Nigerian awarded for making mathematics easy to learn. He was awarded at the TruLittle Hero for discovering a new way to divide in mathematics. The UK-based 12-year-old has made both Nigeria and Africa proud. Chika:

Everyday Heroes: Benjamin Ben Kwashi

Benjamin Ben Argak Kwashi was born in Plateau State in the year 1955. He is a Nigerian Anglican Archbishop. He is married to Gloria and they have six children, one of them is also a priest. They have 54 orphans

Everyday Hero- Kafayat Sanni

Twenty-two years old Kafayat Sanni, a Flight Lieutenant and one of the youngest of the Nigerian Air Force pilots and the first female fighter pilot recently decorated is today’s Everyday Hero. Not only because of her age, but also her

Everyday Hero: Josephine Ugwu

It might be no news that, Josephine Ugwu, a staff of a cleaning company at the Lagos Airport, in 2015 found $12,200, which a passenger forgot inside a toilet in the facility and returned it to security officials at the

Everyday Heroes: Jerry and Tricia Ifeanyi

Anyiego Foundation is barely one year old. But in those 365 days, the foundation has recorded many successful humanitarian outreaches in Lagos and the South-East and has proven to be impactful to society. Within this first 365 days of its

Everyday Heroes- Sunday Lengmang

Nigeria is regarded as home to the largest fistula burden in the world. According to medical experts, VVF is a female genital disorder where a woman loses control of her bladder due to pregnancy and delivery complications. As a result,

Everyday Heroes: Pink Oak Foundation

Cancer is predominantly a Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) and affects people all over the world. According to the International Agency for Research on Cance, in 2013, over 14 million new cancer cases (about 39,000 per day) was diagnosed annually and the

Everyday Heroes- Dr. Christian Isichei

There are heroes and there are heroes. Whatever the defining criteria or dividing line is, Dr. Christian Isichei undoubtedly falls in the superior category of heroes. The name might not be the most popular, but the impact of the man

Everyday Heroes – Anthony Enahoro

The paragraph below outline why Anthony Enahoro ranks as an everyday Hero; especially in a month where we are paying consideration to Nigeria’s independence celebration: In 1953, Enahoro became the first to move the motion for Nigeria’s independence which was

Everyday Heroes- Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

Coming off the independence celebrations of Nigeria, it is important to reflect on some of the Heroes of our Independence from the colonialists. The line from the national anthem says, “…the labour of our heroes past, shall never be in

Everyday Heroes- Frances Ogamba

In the past few weeks, Nigeria and Nigerians have been on the global headlines for mostly negative reasons, the internet fraud scams in the United States, the drug smuggling cases in Saudi Arabia etc. A need of fresh air is

Everyday Heroes: Basil Okpara Jnr

His game generating interest was piqued at age 7 when his father scolded him for spending so much time playing games rather than building his own games for others to play. Basil took this as a challenge and paid more

Everyday Heroes: Olajumoke Adenowo

Olajumoke Adenowo is a multiple award-winning Architect and Philanthropist who when profiled by CNN was referred to as “Africa’s Starchitect.” With over 30 years of experience in Architectural practice, she has designed and executed over 70 buildings. At age 14

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