Emeritus Professor Ayo Bamgbose is gone, and Nigeria’s academic world is left to sit with a silence it has not known in a long while. He was born in Odopotu, a small community near Ijebu Ode in present-day Ogun State, on 27 January 1932, and he died in Ibadan on 25 July 2026, at 94, …
Tajudeen Owoyemi was once a small boy on the streets of Ilorin, balancing a tray of ekuru on his head, hawking it for his grandmother before the sun grew too hot to walk barefoot. He did not know, then, that the same hands stacking river sand at nearby construction sites for a few naira would …
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Kola Karim turned fifty-seven on November 24, 2025, as Executive Chairman of one of Africa’s most diversified indigenous conglomerates, a group with more than 5,000 employees, operations across sixteen African countries, and 2025 revenue in excess of $1.2 billion. Every empire has an origin story, and Karim’s begins not in a boardroom but in a …
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On a Thursday in July, Dr Charles Akindiji “Diji” Akinola turned seventy. Most Nigerians only met him this year, as the newly appointed pioneer Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the South-West Development Commission (SWDC). But the man who now sits atop the region’s most ambitious institutional experiment did not arrive there by accident. …
On November 13, 1969, a woman walked into a courtroom in Benin City not as a lawyer or a litigant, but as a judge, and Nigeria’s judiciary changed shape for good. Modupe Oladunni Omo-Eboh, née Akingbein, became the first woman in Nigerian history to sit on a superior court bench. It was not a sudden …
Yewande Zaccheaus stands as a transformative figure in the Nigerian commercial landscape, a professional whose journey from the structured corridors of high-stakes banking to the uncharted territory of professional event management redefined an entire industry. Her career is not merely a chronicle of entrepreneurial success but a masterclass in institutional building. By establishing Eventful Nigeria …
On June 12, 2026, Nigeria bid farewell to Professor Gabriel Adeola Oyewo, popularly known as Kola Oyewo, whose passing at the age of 80 marked the end of an extraordinary six-decade journey in theatre, scholarship and cultural preservation. Actor, academic, lecturer and community leader, Oyewo was among the foremost custodians of Yoruba culture, carrying its …
On June 16, 2026, Professor Babafemi Osofisan will turn eighty years old. There will be tributes, formal gatherings at universities, commendations from literary bodies across three continents, and columns in the papers. But the most honest tribute one can offer a man like Osofisan is not applause. It is attention: close, sustained, and uncomfortable enough …
Abimbola Ayodeji Abolarinwa is not just a consultant urological surgeon, she is a landmark in Nigerian medical history, the first woman in a nation of over 200 million to earn specialist qualifications in urology. Her story spans a multicultural military childhood on an Air Force base in Kaduna, a turbulent but triumphant path through the …
Nigeria has produced oil executives. It has produced gas technocrats. It has produced boardroom survivors and government-adjacent dealmakers. What it has rarely produced is this: two brothers, identical in face and formation, who climbed entirely on merit to sit simultaneously at the top of the country’s most powerful energy institutions — one leading indigenous production …
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