Category: People

Vaughan Gladys

Education – Primary, People, Social – Welfare

Gladys Aduke Vaughan; Educationist who was one of the first women to to found indigenous private primary school in Ibadan, pioneering with her efforts, quality private schools in Nigeria. After the HSC,… read more
Frederick Fasheun

People, Politics – Civil Rights

Frederick Fasehun; Social-political activist and founder of the Oduduwa People’s Congress OPC, the NADECO-contemporary established during General Abacha’s regime to protect Yoruba interest. Though Fasehun is a medical doctor with chains of… read more
Femi Falana

Law – General, People, Politics – Civil Rights, Social – Welfare

Femi Falana; Nigerian Lawyer, democracy and human rights advocate. From 1988 he used his membership of and activities in different organisations to fight for an egalitarian society, often with comrades of different… read more
Babatunde Fafunwa

Education – Primary, Education – Secondary, Education – Tertiary, People, Policy

Babatunde Fafunwa Aliu; Nigerian educationist, only Nigerian academic to have been involved in all the reform processes of the country’s education sector since independence. Fafunwa was an advocate of free education and… read more
Anthony Enahoro

History – Political, People, Politics – Civil Rights

Anthony Enahoro; Nigerian nationalist and politician of the first republic. Enahoro as an Action Group, AG parliamentarian in 1953 moved a motion for self-rule in the Federal house which proposed that Nigeria… read more
Yemi Elebuibon

Literature – Religious, People, Religion, Tradition – Customs

Elebuibon Yemi; Traditionalist from Nigeria. A number of publications by Elebuibon was translated into Spanish and he was a constant invitee to foreign forums notably from North and Latin America consisting often… read more
Cyprian Ekwensi

Literature – Fiction, People

Ekwensi Cyprian; Novelist winner of Dag Hamtuarskjold International Merit Award. Ekwensi is one of Africa’s best short story writers of the 20th century. He is noted for his easy style of writing,… read more
Raymond Ejiogu

Military, People

Raymond Chilaka Ejiogu, World War II veteran and community leader, also father of public intellectual and activist, E.C Ejiogu. Ejiogu Raymond left Enugu with other new enlistees in the Signal Corps on… read more
Ebi Elizabeth

Finance – Money, People

Elizabeth Ebi; First lady-broker of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Between 1979 and 1981, she was the director of Owners Operation at FCH Services Inc., Washington where she managed a portfolio in excess… read more
Dokpesi Raymond

Business, Media – TV & Radio, People

Dokpesi Raymond Aleogho; Nigerian media entrepreneur who in the early 1990s harnessed the liberalisation of the Nigerian broadcasting industry which allowed private ownership of radio and television stations in the launching of… read more