Category: Government
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Dipomu, in Yoruba language, Di opo mu, meaning ‘catch hold of the post’. Ancient judicial practise in southwest Nigeria in which an offender or anyone who was in trouble sought sanctuary in… read more
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Judiciary makes the third arm of the Nigerian government, the other two being executive, and the legislature. The law, including the ones being made by the legislative arm is interpreted and applied… read more
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Osborne F.G. was a merchant of the Anglo-Colonial Trading Corporation Limited, called Alagbon in Lagos of the nineteen-tens. Born in 1852, Osborne came to Lagos in the 1870s as a clerk of… read more
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Anglophonism was the term used in pre-independence times to describe the tendency of the Nigerian to see self as naturally aligned with, or to show allegiance to the English. In Michael Echeruo’s account… read more
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Babatunde Fashola is the Thirteenth governor of Lagos State, (2007-2015), publicly acclaimed for his analytical skill and administrative competence. He is a recipient of the 2009 Yitzhak Rabin Centre for African Development… read more
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Adegoke Sylvester is a Geologist from Ondo town, born July 1937. Adegoke coordinated the industrial studies of the extensive tar send bitumen-bearing beds of Ondo, Ogun and Bendel States within which heavy… read more
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King’s College was established in 1909 to provide for the youths of colonial Nigeria a higher education than that supplied by existing schools to prepare them for matriculation examination of the University… read more
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Parker International High School was established in 1994 by Ghanaian educationist, Mr. Parker Quartz, who had achieved renown the decade before due to his activities at the “Talk of the town” which… read more
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Accountancy as a professional and managerial function was imported into Nigeria just like any other white collar job by the British colonialists through their various commodities trading companies and supporting financial institutions.… read more
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Pinefield College is a modern secondary school established 1999 in highbrow Lekki Phase I. The school’s spacious compound encompasses highly functional facilities; science laboratories, interactive whiteboard room, Arts studio and a football… read more
