Category: Government
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Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida; Army General who ruled Nigeria as military president from 1985 to 1993. As a key member of the group that overthrew Shagari’s government in 1983, Babangida was rewarded with… read more
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James Johnson Oluleye; General in the Nigerian army, who served During the Nigerian civil war, he was general staff officer 1, Nigerian Army Headquarters, from 1967-1970 and previously with the United Nations… read more
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Rasaki Salawu; Pioneer Director of operations of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC. In 1988, he was invited to head the newly formed FRSC based on his novel initiative that led eleven… read more
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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 Secretary, asked the… read more
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Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru; Tax practitioner and accountant, Chairman of Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS during President Obasanjo years. Ifueko was the first female professional staff hired by Arthur Andersen, a leading accounting… read more
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Tai Solarin; Activist and educationist. Solarin is known for his social experiments, which he deployed as a school proprietor, his minimalism, his atheistic disposition and his participation in the clamour for democracy.… read more
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Economist, as cabinet minister belonged to the crop of energetic technocrats of President Obasanjo’s second term in her position as Nigeria’s finance minister. Before her appointment, Okonjo-Iweala was Vice-President of… read more
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Prosper Okpue; Nigerian Insurance Administrator, recipient of awards in insurance management, the industry which he joined in 1978. Okpue is the Chief Executive Officer of Insurance Brokers of Nigeria (IBN), the foremost… read more
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Jadesola Akande; Law professor and first female Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, LASU, in 1989. Born November 15, 1938, Jadesola who is daughter of a lawyer father and a teacher… read more
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Atanda Fatai-Williams; Legal luminary, one of the delegate to London which historically decided the design for the robe of the Nigerian Chief Judge. Fatai-Williams was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of… read more
