By: Arc
President Obasanjo for all his faults (if any), could spot patriots (real recognizes real). He interviewed Dr. Akunyili after she returned £12,000 in unused medical funds to the Petroleum Trust Fund, gave her an appointment that changed her life and allowed her act on her hero origin story- losing her sister to fake insulin. She became NAFDAC, which did not exist before 2001, and her name became its synonym. Continue reading
By: Arc
Level: 3
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Friday the thirteenth February 1976; this date means nothing to 99.9% of the total populace. To the staying .1 it was the date Nigerians saw their expectation of good administration snatched from them. Muritala Mohammed was killed in rush hour gridlock in and Lt. Col Dimka became public enemy number one. Meet 1976’s villain: Continue reading
By: Arc
Level: 3
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Many have described Nigeria as a jungle, a shit hole with raving mad wild animals. Who better then to tame its wild life than a Zoologist?
Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with his PhD in the scientific study of animals was a perfect fit for the role of our country’s Chief Zookeeper. Continue reading
By: Arc
Level: 3
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Forbes list was first published in March 1987, if this compilation was done in the year of 1965 it would probably have featured Chief Festus Okotie Eboh
“….He was as rich if not richer than Dantata (1955’s wealthiest in West Africa) who owned 40% of the groundnut pyramids in Kanu and was wealthier than Ojukwu father and the Orizus.”
No reference to Dangotes, Otedolas or Elumelus, the guards have changed in recent years yet we must turn our gaze to Nigeria’s FIRST truly POWERFUL man. Continue reading
By: Arc
Level: 3
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I lived only 32 years, I died in my youth, yet I left more mark on your country’s history than your 78 year old granddaddy Buhari or is it Jubril these days…My name is Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna (Popularly called Emma Vancouver or The Assassin, Tafawa Balewa’s Assassin). Continue reading
By: Arc
Level: 3
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They didn’t all come to kill and destroy; some of them came with good intentions. Some came to share in our humanity, to speak in our tongue, to share in our pain.
Mary was born on the 2nd day of December, 1848 to alcoholic cobbler Robert and skilled weaver Mary Slessor. Mary Slessor The II or Mary Slessor Jr. if you like grew up in the slums of Dundee and learned to work at the early age of eleven. At a time when there was no penicillin, Mary lost her father and two brothers to pneumonia. By age fourteen she had mastered the art of turning jute into mats and clothing, doing her best to support her mother and sisters. Continue reading
By: Arc
Level: 3
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Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (Ikemba)
I never met the great man, he hasn’t done much to offend me save for picking super model Bianca for companionship and snubbing his mates (how could Feminists miss that?). All opinions I have about him are formed by events and stories I have heard-history, documentaries, newspapers, elderly mouths. Every time I hear Ojukwu, I hear the Biafran War, I hear Civil War, I hear 1967-1970…Funny when I hear Gowon, all I actually think is ‘Nigerian’s past president.’ Before we get to meet the man- Ikemba Ojukwu, Let us go through the legacy he left us, how it happened and what I think, perhaps know, sparked events. Continue reading
By: Arc
Level: 2
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Daughter of Bakwa Turunku—great queen and founder of Zazzau kingdom—15th-16th century Zaria in Kaduna state; Northern Nigeria
Long ago in a distant land (In the voice of Aku—villain Samurai Jack) a young princess caught Marka’s eye.
“She wields that dagger better than any man.”
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