NAME: Taiye Selasi DATE OF BIRTH: 2 November 1979 PLACE OF BIRTH: London, United Kingdom EDUCATION: Yale University; Nuffield College, Oxford CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: A Writer PUBLICATIONS: Novels Ghana Must Go (2013) Short stories “Brunhilda in Love” (2016) “Aliens of Extraordinary Ability” (2014) “Driver” (2013) “The Sex Lives of African Girls” (2011) Essays “Bye-Bye, Babar (Or: What is […]
NAME: Amina Mohammed DATE OF BIRTH: 27th of June, 1961 PLACE OF BIRTH: Gombe State EDUCATION: Education Interests Economic / International Development, Policy Forumulation, MDGs, Sdgs CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Amina J. Mohammed Resigned From Nigerian Federal Executive Council On 24th Of February, 2017 To Take On Her Role As Deputy Secretary-general Of The United […]
Kenule Beeson “Ken” Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize. NAME: Ken Saro-Wiwa DATE OF BIRTH: 10 October 1941 PLACE OF BIRTH: Bori City FATHER: Jim Wiwa MOTHER: Widu Wiwa MARRIED TO: Maria Saro-Wiwa CHILDREN: Ken Wiwa, Noo Saro-Wiwa, Zina Saro-Wiwa OCCUPATION: Writer EDUCATION: University of […]
Introduction: Abubakar Atiku Bagudu is a Nigerian politician who was elected Senator for the Kebbi Central constituency of Kebbi State, Nigeria in a by-election after Senator Adamu Aliero was appointed Minister of the Federal Capital Territory in December 2008. He ran successfully for reelection in the April 2011 national elections in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) […]
Biography Intro: NAME: Aminu Bello Masari DATE OF BIRTH:29 May 1950 PLACE OF BIRTH: Katsina State. CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Masari ran unsuccessfully for the office of katsina state governor in the 2011 election under the platform of defunct congress for progressive change. In december 2014 he emerged as the governorship candidate of the all […]
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is a Nigerian politician and current Governor of Kano State since 2015. He previously served as deputy governor twice between 1999 to 2003 and 2011 to 2015 both under his former boss Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. NAME: Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, OFR DATE OF BIRTH: December 25, 1949 PLACE OF BIRTH: Kano State EDUCATION: […]
Biography Intro: NAME:Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai DATE OF BIRTH:16 February 1960 PLACE OF BIRTH: Kaduna State MARRIED TO: Hadiza Isma El-Rufa EDUCATION: He went to secondary school in the prestigious barewa college, where he graduated at the top of the class, winning the coveted “Barewa old boys’ association academic achievement” trophy in 1976,incidentally, in barewa college zaria, […]