Otenkwa Ndubuisi Dele Udo was born in Umahia Abia State (May 24, 1957, died in Lagos in July 1981). He was a Nigerian sprinter. He died at the age of 24. He was a collegiate champion at the University of Missouri in the 1970s and competed in the men’s 400-meter dash at the 1980 Summer…
Ado Bayero, Emir of Kano from 1963 to 2014. He is also the father of Sanusi Lamido Ado Bayero. Ado Bayero was born on July 25, 1930 into the royal family of theFulani-Sullubawaclan,which has ruled the Kano Emirate since 1819. His father was Abdullahi Bayero and his mother was Hajiya Hasiya.He was hisfather’s eleventh…
Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe AKA (Hypertension Doctor), often referred to simply as Osita Osadebe, was a Nigerian musician from Atani. Over the course of his career spanning more than four decades, he has become one of the most famous Igbo highlife musicians. His most famous hit was the 1984 single “Osondi Owendi,” which made him…
The first Executive Governor of Lagos State, Lateef Kayode Jakande, also known as “Baba Kekere”, was sworn in in 1979 before the Chief Justice of the state, Adetunji Adefarasin. Lateef Kayode Jakande was born on July 29, 1929 in Epetedo area of Lagos Island, Lagos State. Both parents hail from Omu-Aran, Kwara State. He studied at the Lagos Public School in Enu-Owa on Lagos Island and then at the Bunham Memorial Methodist School in Port Harcourt (1934-1943). He studied at King’s College, Lagos in 1943 and enrolled at Ilesha Grammar School in 1945, where he edited the literary magazine The Quarterly Mirror. In 1949, Jakande began his journalistic career, first with…