FROM a humble background in the rustic town of Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State, Nigeria, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, has grown not only to be a colossus in the legal profession and in arbitration, but also a household name in the education sector. This does not diminish the fact that he is also a big-time farmer.

THE Nigerian movie industry has produced many veterans whose footprints have not only defined the path but have left a beacon on the way on which many have thrived in the make-believe world.

HE is called a barber, architect, drummer, journalist, photographer and other things, all of which he is. The one word, however, that encapsulates who Smart-Cole is ‘artist’. Sunmi Smart-Cole was born in Port Harcourt on September 25, 1941, to a Nigerian mother and a Sierra Leonean father.

‘SUCCESS does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will,” says the Indian great man, lawyer and nationalist, Mahatma Gandhi. This wise saying aptly captures Diana Chen, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Choice International Group, CIG, the parent company of CIG Motors Limited, GREE Air Conditioner and Lontor E-home.

SPECIAL REPORT By Udeme Akpan ENGR. Simbi K. Wabote was appointed as the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, by President Muhammadu Buhari on September 29, 2016. Due to his excellent performance during the first tenure, he was reappointed for a second term by Mr President on September 25, 2020. The NCDMB […]

HUMPHREY Nwosu, a professor of Political Science, is certainly a permanent fixture in the history of Nigeria’s democratic evolution. Ignoring his name in the nation’s narrative is as good as omitting French Theologian, John Calvin, from conversations around modern democracy. At any point, whether in this generation or next, he would rank among those who defined 20th century Nigeria.

Group Managing Director of Sahara Group, Kola Adesina, is a consummate entrepreneur with experience that traverses academia, insurance, finance, energy, trade and diplomacy. 

DAPO Abiodun didn’t just bag Vanguard’s Governor of the Year 2021 Award. Abiodun emerged through a rigorous process and his selection is based on his creation of enduring economic development and individual prosperity in Ogun State.

AFTER about 25 years of existence, Gombe State, the Jewel of Savannah, is now clearly set on the path of new dawn under the transformational leadership of Governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya.

DURING his first term, Governor Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki earned the name:  “Wake and See Governor” because he preferred to work and deliver infrastructural projects without prior fanfare or needless rhetoric.

GOVERNOR  Abdullahi Alhaji Sule, took over the mantle of leadership as the fourth elected governor of Nasarawa State on May 29, 2019, amidst high expectations from the indigenes of the state.

GOVERNOR Gboyega Oyetola began his sojourn as the helmsman of Osun State in 2018 on a brain cracking note.

THE town of Misau, headquarters of Misau Local Government Area of Bauchi State first attracted national attention in the Second Republic. In 1983, then Makaman Misau, Alhaji Muhammadu Kura, was chosen as the running mate of Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, in the presidential election which held later that year.

WHILE some people see public office as means of feathering their nests, that is not the case with 67-year-old Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Jurisprudence and the Chief Executive Officer/ Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB.

FORMER Nigerian First Lady and wife of ex-Head of State, Abdulsalam Abubakar, Justice Fatima Abubakar, (retd) was born on April 12, 1951, as the second child of Alhaji Umaru Audi, the late first Waziri of Minna, and Hajia Nana Asmau (daughter of the late Sarkin Hausawa of Minna) in Minna, Niger State.