Category: Technology
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Olutunmbi Maduka; the first Nigerian registered female engineer. As a recipient of several awards, she attended various seminars and presented papers, including the report on the commercialisation of National Electric Power Authority,… read more
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Gillian Hopwood; British-Nigerian photographer and architect, distinguished, with her husband, John Godwin for the Lagos heritage project which documents the history and legacies of Lagos in photos. Husband and wife were born… read more
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Aigboje Higo; Nigerian publisher whose industry and resourcefulness brought Heinemann Educational Publishers UK into reckoning in Nigeria. When in 1964, Heinemann wanted to establish shop in Nigeria, it settled for Aigboje Higo… read more
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BUKAR Abdullah; Nigerian engineer instrumental in the multinational oil company Shell’s master plan to put out gas flares and the laying of the foundation of making Nigerian gas commercially useful both in… read more
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Jessie Edem Bassey; First Nigerian lady to work in the refinery for Shell-BP in Nigeria. Jessie transferred from the Shell-BP in UK to the Nigerian office just before the Civil War. During… read more
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Ayoola Kehinde; Engineer and veteran of the Nigerian telecommunication sector. In 1985, when the Nigeria External Telecommunications Limited, NET and the technical arm of the Posts and Telegraph, P&T Departments were to… read more
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Port Harcourt is a Nigerian port city, on the northern bank of the Bonny River, 30 nautica miles from the Bight of Biafra in the Atlantic Ocean. The city, discovered while a… read more
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NEEDS, National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy was Nigeria’s home grown poverty reduction and socio-economic development strategy under Olusegun Obasanjo‘s presidency. This framework for actions, developed by a 35-member drafting committee was… read more
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Elegba S.B. is the Nigerian professor of physics, who in 1987 installed, commissioned and operated the first Neutron Generator in West Africa. Elegba was trained in Ukraine of the former Soviet Union… read more
