Category: Social

Ebola

Environment – Others, Health, Medicine, Pharmacy – General, Public Health, Research

Ebola virus in 2014 claimed about 11,000 lives in countries across Africa, including Nigeria. It all started on July 20 when an Asky Airline flight originating from Liberia landed at the Murtala… read more
Murtala Sule

Media – TV & Radio, Nollywood – General, Nollywood – Yoruba, People

Murtala Sule: Film maker and presenter of NTA 7 popular Sunday television programme, Lagbo Video. Murtala left secondary school in 1973 and joined LatdaFilms to learn film making. Murtala Sule went to… read more
Shooting Stars of Ibadan

Social – Relaxation, Sports

Shooting Stars of Ibadan: was one of the most decorated club sides in Nigeria, alongside Angers and the defunct Stationery Stores T.C. of Lagos. It dominated the country during ‘70s and ‘80s.… read more
Fundamentalism

Justice, Philosophy – General, Police, Religion, Social – Welfare, Social Sciences

Fundamentalism; is ideological or religious intolerance. There is a clear demarcation between terrorism at an international level and the rise of fundamentalism in northern Nigeria as a region. There are many factors that… read more
Kanu Nwankwo

People, Social – Welfare, Sports

Nwankwo Kanu : Nigeria’s most-decorated player and one of the few players to have won the Premier League, FA Cup, Champions League, IUEFA Cup and an Olympic Gold Medal. Time and again,… read more
Teslim Fatusi

History – Political, People, Sports

Teslim Fatusi Switzerland-based winger, Serviette and Polonia Warszawa star. Born 1978, Fatusi plied his trade in Tunisia, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam before calling it quits… read more
Ajibola Ojesola

Entertainment – Nollywood, Media – TV & Radio, People

Ajibola Ojesola; Popular television presenter and actor, started acting as a student of the Polytechnic of Ibadan. Ajibola joined a drama society at the University of Ibadan. Then, he would leave my… read more
Taiwo Ogunjobi

People, Sports

Taiwo Joseph Ogunjobi; Nigerian defender who later became a football administrator, born in 1953. Ogunjobi started the game of football from when he was growing up in Idi Oro in Mushin, Lagos.… read more
Dennis Joseph Slattery

Education – Secondary, Journalism, People

Dennis Joseph Slattery, a Catholic reverend father. His death in July 2003 was mourned for his glorious achievements in Nigerian education sector. Born on February 29, 1916 in South Ireland, Slattery, who… read more
Kabiru Yusuf

Journalism, Media – Print, People

Kabiru Yusuf; Kastina born media chief and executive of Daily Trust, widely circulated and printed in Lagos and Abuja. Born in June 1956, Kabiru Yusuf is an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University… read more