Category: People
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Sunny Okosun; Popular Nigerian musician who came into the local music scene in the mid 1960s with an eclectic style which blended highlife, pop and calypso with organised reggae. His African reggae… read more
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Simeon Adebo; Public servant of the Nigerian first post-colonial generation. He was head of the Western region civil service during the political impasse that led to the Emergency rule which was declared… read more
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Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke; Nigerian politician and criminologist. Adeleke became the first civilian governor of Osun State after the state was carved out of the old Oyo State in August 1991. He was… read more
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Adebayo Adefarati; third civilian governor of Ondo State. Adefarati was one of the pro-democracy activists who fought for the return of civilian rule in Nigeria as a member of the National Democratic… read more
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Adegeye Sunday; or King Sunny Ade is one of the most recognizable brand in Nigerian music, who with his unique Juju brand carved a long career that is successful. His music was… read more
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Moses Olaiya; a.k.a. Baba Sala, regarded in his heydey as the father of Nigerian comedy, alongside other dramatists like Hubert Ogunde, Kola Ogunmola, Oyin Adejobi and Duro Ladipo. Before he ventured into… read more
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Anthony Adefuye; Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, engineer, and founder of a top flight indigenous contracting company which carved a niche for itself in the country’s construction industry. Adefuye who… read more
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Chinua Achebe; Nigerian novelist who during the Langston Hughes award in 1993 was praised as the man who through clouds and mists saw the life of the people, whose vision was sharpened… read more
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Abioro Yakubu; (1930-96), Nigerian music producer, whose TYC Records discovered great acts like Sunny Ade, then known as Sunny Ade and the Green Spot Band; Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Tunde Nightingale, Idowu Animashaun,… read more
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Kudirat Abiola; Pro-democracy activist and wife of MKO Abiola who was widely believed to have won the June 12, 1993 presidential election that was cancelled by the military. Kudirat was bom in… read more
