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Dele Momodu
Chief Dele Momodu (born Ayòbámidélé Àbáyòmí Ojútelégàn Àjàní Momodu; 16 May 1960) is a Nigerian journalist, publisher, businessman, and motivational speaker. He is the CEO and publisher of ''Ovation International'', a celebrity magazine. In 2015, he officially launched Ovation TV and subsequently launched an online newspaper called ''The Boss Newspaper''. Momodu has received hundreds of awards and honors for his work in the world of business, politics, literature, the music industry and the fashion industry. He writes a weekly column called "Pendulum", published every Saturday on the back page of ''ThisDay'' newspaper. The articles have been praised for highlighting topical national issues in Nigeria, as well as discussing popular topics, current events and notable people, often in a polemic/critical style. Early life Momodu was born on 16 May 1960. His name, Ayòbámidélé, means "my joy has followed me home." He is the last of three siblings. He lost his father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akin Omoboriowo
Akinwole Michael Omoboriowo (12 January 1932 – 10 April 2012) was a Nigerian lawyer and politician who was Deputy Governor of Ondo State, later switching parties and contested for the governorship election of 1983 in Ondo State during the Nigerian Second Republic. He was initially declared the winner but was disputed and later reversed by a court of appeal before he could take office. Omoboriowo was elected deputy governor on the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) platform, running with Michael Adekunle Ajasin, who became governor. He claimed that he should have been UPN candidate for governor, since he had won more votes that Ajasin in the primaries, but that the UPN leaders had rigged the results. During his period as deputy governor, he fell out with Governor Ajasin, who refused to swear him into power as acting governor when Ajasin was away from the state. Omoboriowo switched to the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) and ran against his old boss in the 1983 elections. This came on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cotonou
Cotonou (; ) is the largest city in Benin. Its official population count was 679,012 inhabitants in 2012; however, over two million people live in the larger urban area. The urban area continues to expand, notably toward the west. The city lies in the southeast of the country, between the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Nokoué. Cotonou is the seat of government in Benin, although Porto-Novo is the official capital. History The name "Cotonou" means "by the river of death" in the Fon language.Butler, Stuart (2019) ''Bradt Travel Guide - Benin'', pgs. 74-91 At the beginning of the 19th century, Cotonou (then spelled "Kutonou") was a small fishing village, and is thought to have been formally founded by King Ghezo of Dahomey in 1830. It grew as a centre for the History of slavery, slave trade, and later palm oil and cotton. In 1851 the French Second Republic made a treaty with King Ghezo that allowed them to establish a trading post at Cotonou. During the reign of King Glele (1858–89), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kudirat Abiola
Alhaja Kudirat Abiola (born Kudirat Olayinka Adeyemi) , popularly known simply as Kudirat Abiola (1951 – 4 June 1996), was a Nigerian pro-democracy campaigner. She was assassinated whilst her husband, Moshood Abiola, was being detained by the Nigerian government, Nigerian Government. He was the winning candidate in elections that had taken place in Nigeria in 1993 and was arrested shortly after they were summarily annulled by the ruling Junta (governing body), junta. Life Kudirat Olayinka Adeyemi was born in 1951 in Zaria in Nigeria. Alhaja Kudirat Abiola was the second woman to have married her husband. At the time of her death, she was his Senior Wife, senior wife. Death Abiola was assassinated while her husband was being detained by the Nigerian Government. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sani Abacha
Sani Abacha (; (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military dictator and statesman who ruled Nigeria with an iron fist as military head of state from 1993 following a palace coup d'état until his death in 1998. Abacha's seizure of power was the last successful coup d'état in Nigerian military history. He wielded power with an unyielding attitude and his rule heralded an unprecedented total disregard for human rights with several political assassinations and summary executions of dissidents and political opponents in Nigeria. His rule drew disrepute to the country with Nigeria becoming a pariah state in international relations particularly with regards to the execution of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Sani Abacha was considered one of the twentieth century's most corrupt dictators and as a kleptocrat for the alleged embezzlement of US$2–5 billion. Abacha, and his family, allegedly hid most of the loot abroad in Switzerland, as well as in ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treason
Treason is the crime of attacking a state (polity), state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to Coup d'état, overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, its officials, or its secret services for a hostile foreign power, or Regicide, attempting to kill its head of state. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor. Historically, in common law countries, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife or that of a master by his servant. Treason (i.e., disloyalty) against one's monarch was known as ''high treason'' and treason against a lesser superior was ''petty treason''. As jurisdictions around the world abolished petty treason, "treason" came to refer to what was historically known as high treason. At times, the term ''traitor'' has been used as a political epithet, regardless of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Babangida
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (born 17 August 1941) is a Nigerian statesman and military dictator who ruled as military president of Nigeria from 1985 when he orchestrated a coup d'état against his military and political arch-rival Muhammadu Buhari, until his resignation in 1993 as a result of the crisis of the Third Republic. He rose through the ranks of the Nigerian Army fighting in the Nigerian Civil War and at various times being involved in almost all the military coups in Nigeria, before advancing to the rank of a General and ultimately as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces; and as an unelected President and military dictator from 1985 to 1993, ruling for an uninterrupted period of eight years. His years in power, colloquially known as the ''Babangida Era'', are considered one of the most controversial in Nigerian political and military history, being characterized by a burgeoning political culture of corruption in Nigeria, with Babangida and his regime estimate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dele Momodu With MKO Abiola
A dele or deleatur (, ) is an obelism (a proofreading symbol) used to mark something for deletion. Name ''Dele'', the more common term in modern American English (sometimes used as a verb, e.g. "Dele that graf"), coincides with the imperative form of the Latin ''delere'' ("to delete"). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes an earlier use in English of ''deleatur'' (Latin "let it be deleted"), and suggests that ''dele'' in English may have been an abbreviation for the longer word. Origin The origin of the symbol appears to be an archaic letter D in the Kurrent script, as an abbreviation for ''dele'' or ''deleatur''. It is markedly similar (if not identical in some cases) to the symbol for the German penny () which is an archaic lowercase d, for ''denarius''. As with most hand-written letters and symbols, its appearance is variable. Computer representation There is no character for the dele symbol in Unicode as of version 15.0 from September 2022, although its addition h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Adenuga
Chief Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr (born 29 April 1953) is a Nigerian billionaire businessman, and the fifth richest person in Africa according to Forbes. His company Globacom is Nigeria's second-largest telecom operator and also has a presence in Ghana and Benin. He owns stakes in the Equitorial Trust Bank and the oil exploration firm Conoil (formerly Consolidated Oil Company). ''Forbes'' estimated his net worth at $6.7 billion as of May 2024. Early life His father, Oloye Michael Agbolade Adenuga Sr, was a schoolteacher while his mother, Omoba Juliana Oyindamola Adenuga (née Onashile, of Okesopin, Ijebu Igbo), was a businesswoman of royal Ijebu descent. He is Yoruba. Adenuga received his secondary school education at Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria and Comprehensive High School, Aiyetoro, for his Higher School Certificate (HSC). He worked as a taxi driver to help fund his university education. He graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
Chieftain, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola , also known as M. K. O. Abiola (; 24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998) was a Nigerian business magnate, publisher, and politician. He was the honorary supreme military commander of the Oyo Empire and an aristocrat of the Egba people, Egba clan. Abiola ran for the 1993 Nigerian presidential election, presidency in 1993, for which the election results were annulled by then military president Ibrahim Babangida.Hamilton, Janice. ''Nigeria in Pictures'', p. 70. He would later die in detention after making an attempt to assert himself as the elected president. Abiola was awarded the National honour Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR), an honour awarded to only Nigerian heads of state, Posthumous award, posthumously on 6 June 2018, by President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria's democracy day was changed from 29 May to 12 June in his honour. Abiola was a personal friend of Ibrahim BabangidaRufai, Misbahu (11 May 1990). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dele Momodu And President Bill Clinton
A dele or deleatur (, ) is an obelism (a proofreading symbol) used to mark something for deletion. Name ''Dele'', the more common term in modern American English (sometimes used as a verb, e.g. "Dele that graf"), coincides with the imperative form of the Latin ''delere'' ("to delete"). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes an earlier use in English of ''deleatur'' (Latin "let it be deleted"), and suggests that ''dele'' in English may have been an abbreviation for the longer word. Origin The origin of the symbol appears to be an archaic letter D in the Kurrent script, as an abbreviation for ''dele'' or ''deleatur''. It is markedly similar (if not identical in some cases) to the symbol for the German penny () which is an archaic lowercase d, for ''denarius''. As with most hand-written letters and symbols, its appearance is variable. Computer representation There is no character for the dele symbol in Unicode as of version 15.0 from September 2022, although its addition h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
