Biography Intro: Audu Idris Umar was elected Senator for the Gombe Central constituency of Gombe State, Nigeria, taking office on 29 May 2007. He is a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). NAME: Adamu Idris DATE OF BIRTH: 28 December 1959 PLACE OF BIRTH: Gombe State, Nigeria. OCCUPATION: Barrister WHAT HE/SHE IS FAMOUS: Senator for Gombe Central
Biography Intro: Uzodinma Iweala is an American author and medical doctor of Nigerian descent. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work (in creative writing) at Harvard. NAME: Uzodinma Iweala DATE OF BIRTH: November 5, 1982 MOTHER: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala OCCUPATION: Writer EDUCATION: Iweala attended St. Albans School in Washington D.C. and later Harvard College with an A.B., magna cum laude, in English and American Literature and […]
Biography Intro: Abubakar Imam O.B.E C.O.N, L.L.D (Hon.) N.N.M.C. (1911 – 1981) was a Nigerianwriter, journalist and politician from Kagara, Nigerin Nigeria.For most of his life, he lived in Zaria, where he was the first Hausa editor of Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo, the pioneer Newspaper in Northern Nigeria. NAME: Abubakar Imam O.B.E C.O.N, L.L.D (Hon.) N.N.M.C. DATE OF BIRTH: 1 February 1911 PLACE OF BIRTH: Kagara, Niger State, Nigeria. PARENT: Imam OCCUPATION: Journalist […]
Biography Intro: Honourable Haruna Manu is the Deputy Governor of Taraba State. He was born to the family of Hajiya Hauwau and Alhaji Manu Umar in Mutum-Biyu; Headquarters of Gassol Local Government Area, Taraba State in the year: 1973. NAME: His Excellency, Engr. Haruna Manu DATE OF BIRTH: 1973. PLACE OF BIRTH: Mutum-Biyu; Headquarters of Gassol Local […]
Biography Intro: Helon Habila Ngalabak is a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in 2001. He worked as a lecturer and journalist in Nigeria before moving in 2002 to England, where he was a Chevening Scholar at the University of East Anglia, and now teaches creative writing at George Mason University, Washington, D.C NAME: Helon Habila Ngalabak DATE […]
Biography Intro: Toyin Adewale-Gabriel is a Nigerian writer. She writes poetry and has worked as a literary critic for The Guardian, Post Express and The Daily Times. Adewale-Gabriel writes in both English and in German. NAME: Toyin Adewale-Gabriel DATE OF BIRTH: 1969 PLACE OF BIRTH: Ibadan, Nigeria. EDUCATION: she received her MA Lit degree from Obafemi Awolowo University.She was co-founder and co-ordinator for several years of the Association of Writers of Nigeria
Biography Intro: Dan Fulani is a Nigerian fiction writer with 16 published books to his credit since 1981, who has tried to highlight development issues through his popular fiction. NAME: Dan Fulani PLACE OF BIRTH: Mambilla Plateau, northern Nigeria. EDUCATION: Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.