Category: Government


  • Leke Alder is the brand strategist and policy consultant credited with introducing branding as a discipline to Nigeria. Through the Alder Consulting, which he founded, he has consulted on policy, politics and business at the highest levels locally and internationally. Born as an only child, Leke Alder’s dream from childhood was to be a lawyer,…

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  • Lekki British High School, Lekki is a pioneer British school in Nigeria, established in September 2000. LBHS is located in Olubunmi Owa Street off Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos. As a co-educational institution, the school offers day and boarding options but recommends the the boarding. Besides basic tutoring, the school offers Advanced Studies to…

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  • Life Expectancy is an estimate of the number of years individual new born infants would live under the prevailing mortality risks within a population. Life expectancy is often indicated at the time of birth. According to UNICEF (1997), life expectancy for individuals in the least developed countries is 43 years, compared with the 78 years…

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  • Apata Memorial School is a private secondary school in Isolo, Lagos, introducing military ethos in its program in line with the vision of the founder, retired Brigadier Apata. The school, with address, Plot 36/42 Godwin Omonua Street Ire-Akari estate,Isolo Lagos is a part of the group consisting of the Nursery and Primary schools, evolved from…

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  • Ansar-Ud-Deen Comprehensive College Otta was established September 19, 1946 in Ota. The Ota school, like the Ansar-Ud-Deen in Isolo and Surulere, is a Muslim secondary school for boys and girls. Ansar-Ud-Deen Ota, which holds fond memories in the minds of many successful men and women today, is not in its best physical state as facilities…

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  • Ansar-Uud-Deen College, located in 1, Akinbaiye street, Isolo, is a Muslim school that was founded in 1952. The school have successfully adapted to the new Education paradigm, and modern facilities are been put in place, howbeit slowly. The school has, in its early years been built in a very remote place, and there were challenges…

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  • Ansar-Uud-Deen Grammar School Surulere, 73/74 Randle Avenue Surulere, Lagos, was founded in 1958 in Obele-Oniwala. The Ansar-Ud-Deen Grammar school had suffered serious difficulties even in teaching what appears to be one of its main focus; the Arabic language. With some foreign aids such as those of the United States Information Service and the Ranfurly Library…

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  • Anaesthesia is a state of controlled and reversible loss of consciousness usually associated with insensitivity to pain, reflex depression, and a variable degree of muscle relaxation. This definition by Famewo C.E. of the University of Ibadan is summed up in the Greek epistemology, ‘a’ meaning without, and ‘aesthesis’ meaning perception. Anaesthesia became a subject of…

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  • American International School is a co-educational school for Pre-school pupils to 12th Grade, offering the American educational program for students of all nationalities. The school was established 1964 in Lagos as a US State Department school to provide the American experience to international students. Studentship comprises pupils from over 30 countries while Nigerians and Americans…

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  • Alimotu Pelewura was an activist trader of pre-colonial Nigeria, who, though illiterate, led women successfully in their struggle against unjust taxation and for suffrage. Pelewura was born in the last decade of the 19th Century to a Muslim family. During the Second World War, she organized demonstrations against British policy of monopoly in the distribution…

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