Biography

•  07/25/2018 23:37

In 1954, Gowon joined the Nigerian Army, and became a Second Lieutenant on his 21st birthday in 1955. Gowon attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK (1955–56), Staff College, Camberley, UK (1962) and the Joint Staff College, Latimer, 1965. Gowon served in the Congo

•  07/25/2018 23:30

Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi was born on March 3, 1924 to Ezeugo Aguiyi in Umuahia-Ibeku, in present-day Abia State, Nigeria. At age eight, he moved in with his elder sister Anyamma, who was married to Theophilius Johnson, a Sierra Leonean diplomat in Umuahia. Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi then took the last name of his brother-in-law as his first name, and he saw his...

•  07/25/2018 23:24

Nnamdi Azikiwe attended various primary and secondary mission schools in Onitsha, Calabar, and Lagos. In 1925, he went to the United States, where he attended several schools and bagged several certificates and degrees, which includes bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Lincoln University,Pennsylvania, USA and a second master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania...

•  07/25/2018 23:07

He was born on December 1912 in Bauchi, the then Northern Nigeria in what is now known as Bauchi State, to Bageri Muslim, the then district head of the Bauchi divisional district of Lere. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa’s earliest...

•  07/25/2018 23:01

Mr. Oseloka Henry Obaze (OHO), was born on 9th April, 1955 in Ogidi, Nigeria, he is a native of Ochuche Umuodu, in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. Mr. Obaze is married to Dr. Ofunne Omo Obaze and they are blessed with children...