Category: Government
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Nasir El-Rufai; Politician, first renowned for being part of the core five figures of President Obasanjo’s economic team that delivered NEEDS in a period, 2003-2007, which recorded the fastest rates of economic… read more
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Gani Fawehinmi was a lawyer and renowned human rights activist. With his group, the National Conscience, formed in 1994, Gani Fawehinmi fought the cause of democracy following Nigeria’s June 12 1993 debacle.… read more
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Mokuolu Adebayo; Nigerian professor of Chemistry and celebrated educationist. Adebayo Mokuolu was born in the famous Owu quarters of Abeokuta, Ogun state, into Olusomi family. The same family produced President Obasanjo. … read more
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Fagbohurigbe Felix; Nigerian Attorney, commentator on national and International Law reviews and drafts. Fagbohurigbe bagged his Bachelor of Law degree, LLB, from the University of Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Osun State… read more
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Azikiwe Nnamdi; First Nigerian governor- general and later ceremonial president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Before this, Zik became the Premier of the Eastern Region in 1954. His party, the National… read more
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Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi; First military Head of State of Nigeria. General Aguiyi-Ironsi was described in Major Ademola Ademoyega, a revolutionary Yoruba officer and one of the key actors in the famed… read more
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Murtala Muhammed; Head of the short-lived military government whose face adorn the twenty naira note. Muhammed became Nigerian Head of State on July 29, 1975 following the overthrow of General Yakwubu Gowon,… read more
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Sani Abacha; Nigerian Head of State from November 1993 to June 1998. Abacha was the first officer of the Nigerian Army to rise to the rank of General without skipping any rank.… read more
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Yakwubu Gowon; War time Head of State of Nigeria, who reigned for nine years from 1966. Gowon became Nigeria’s youngest head of state ever at the age of 32 years. When civil… read more
