Category: Government
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Meritocracy is an elite group whose progress is earned with their intellectual prowess, rather than wealth or class privilege. The term also describes the practise of this form of government. Power is vested in meritocrats for having distinguished themselves by success in standardized examinations, as is the case for civil service exams, for instance, or…
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Ade-Ojo Michael is an eminent businessman player of the Nigerian automobile industry. Born on June 14, 1938 at Ilara-Mokin, Ade Ojo had his secondary school education at Imade College, Owo under the headship of Adekunle Ajasin. After a short course in Agriculture, and brief experience at a government ministry, he went to the University of…
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Money history in Nigeria predates the colonial era and most of the forms of money met the modern criteria for ‘legal tender’, namely scarcity, intrinsic value, and portability. They came in the form of the Manilla, cowry shells, metal pieces and coins, cloth money, and salt cones. They were in different forms/currencies and could be…
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Adunni Oluwole was a Unitarist, and anti-independence activist. Adunni, a small, almost fragile woman, was one of Nigeria’s most colorful female leaders in the decade prior to independence. Adunni did not think Nigeria was ready to attain independence in 1956 when a date in that year was proposed, and she worked to prolong the British stay. Adunni was…
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Adubi Riot was the revolt of June 1918 in Abeokuta, following the discontent inherited from the Egba United Government period, in which about thirty thousand Egba people tore up the railway line and looted stations and trains, leading to the killing of a number of people including an Oba, Osile, and one European. The Alake…
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Adetokunbo Lucas is a Nigerian medical doctor, recognized for his international role in fighting neglected tropical diseases, especially in follow-up to the so-called “Guinea worm cease-fire” during Sudan’s civil war in 1995. Ade Lucas was born 1930 in Lagos; living two years of his infancy in the vicarage after his father became in 1936, the…
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Abraham Adesanya was a political leader, honored in the line of Obafemi Awolwo and Adekunle Ajasin as Asiwaju of Yorubaland. Adesanya was born on 24 July 1922 in Ijebu Igbo to a popular traditional healer, Ezekiel. His secondary education was at Ijebu Igbo Grammar School. After working briefly as a tutor, he had travelled to…
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Egerton Shyngle was the politician who became first party president when in 1923, Herbert Macaulay and his friends formed the Nigeria National Democratic Party that was to dominate Lagos politics for the next fifteen years. Born 15 March 1862 in Barthurst, Gambia, Shyngle’s secondary education was at Freetown Grammar School. He also went to Fourah…
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Nigerian Navy Secondary School Abeokuta is a boys only secondary school established on 2 February 1991 as the second Nigerian Navy secondary school. The school is located at the site of the defunt St. Leo’s Teacher Training College in Ibara, Abeokuta. Success of the Ojo Navy school and subsequent upsurge in student population had necessitated…
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Nigerian Navy Secondary School Ojo is the first Nigerian Navy secondary school. The Ojo Navy School was established in 1982 originally to educate children of serving and retired Navy personnel. The success of this experiment had inspired the creation of Abeokuta and Ogbomosho schools, among others. This Navy school, located within the Nigerian Navy barracks…
