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Adejoro Adeogun
Adejoro Adeogun (born 23 June 1967) is a Nigerian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, representing Akoko South East/ Akoko South West Federal Constituency of Ondo State in the 9th National Assembly. He was succeeded by Adegboyega Adefarati. Education Adeogun received his undergraduate degree at University of Ibadan in 1989. He furthered at United States Merchant Marine Academy where he earned a post diploma in Maritime Security Management and a Master of Business Administration from University of Manchester's Alliance Manchester Business School. Career Pre-politics After graduating from the university, Adeogun worked as an intelligence analyst, principal staff officer and training manager at the Department of State Services in 1990. He worked as a managing director of a commercial real estate company—Magnum & Hunter Limited. Adeogun is the founder of Brentonwoods and Trinity Leadership Foundation; a non-governmental organisation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Representatives Of Nigeria
The House of Representatives (also called Green Chamber) is the lower chamber of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly of Nigeria, National Assembly. The Senate of Nigeria, Senate is the upper chamber. The Green Chamber has 360 members who are elected in single-member Constituency, constituencies using the plurality (or first-past-the-post) system, most recently 2023 Nigerian House of Representatives election, in 2023. Members serve four-year terms. The presiding officer of the house is the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, Speaker, currently Tajudeen Abbas, Tajudden Abbas (as of May 2024). State delegations The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, assumes a National Assembly of Nigeria, National Assembly for the federation which consists of a Senate of Nigeria, Senate and a House of Representatives. The Senate consists of three members from each States of Nigeria, Nigerian state and one member from the Federal Capital Territory (Nigeria), Feder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Security Service (Nigeria)
The State Security Service (SSS), self-styled as the Department of State Services (DSS), is a security agency in Nigeria and one of three successor organisations to the National Security Organization (NSO). The agency is under the Presidency of Nigeria, and it reports its activities direct to the President, office of the ONSA, headquartered in Abuja. Mandate The mission of the SSS is to protect and defend the Federal Republic of Nigeria against domestic threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of Nigeria, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to both federal and state law-enforcement organs. The SSS is also charged with the protection of the President, Vice President, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, State Governors and Deputy Governors, their immediate families, other high ranking government officials, former presidents and their spouses, certain notable candidates for the offices of President, Vice President and Governor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The 9th National Assembly (Nigeria)
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Progressives Congress Politicians
All or ALL may refer to: عرص Biology and medicine * Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer * Anterolateral ligament, a ligament in the knee * ''All.'', taxonomic author abbreviation for Carlo Allioni (1728–1804), Italian physician and professor of botany Language * All, an indefinite pronoun in English * All, one of the English determiners * Allar language of Kerala, India (ISO 639-3 code) * Allative case (abbreviated ALL) Music * All (band), an American punk rock band ** ''All'' (All album), 1999 * ''All'' (Descendents album) or the title song, 1987 * ''All'' (Horace Silver album) or the title song, 1972 * ''All'' (Yann Tiersen album), 2019 * "All" (song), by Patricia Bredin, representing the UK at Eurovision 1957 * " All (I Ever Want)", a song by Alexander Klaws, 2005 * "All", a song by Collective Soul from ''Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid'', 1994 Sports * All (tennis) * American Lacrosse League (1988) * Arena Lacrosse League, Canada * Australian Lacros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Births
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam troops launch ''Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts, in an attempt to eliminate the Iron Triangle (Vietnam), Iron Triangle. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 15 – Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species ''Proconsul nyanzae, Kenyapithecus africanus''. * January 23 ** In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison. ** Milton Keynes in England is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigerian Tribune
The ''Nigerian Tribune'' is an English-language newspaper published in Ibadan, Nigeria. Established in 1949 by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, it is the oldest privately-owned Nigerian newspaper still in circulation. During the colonial period, the Nigerian Tribune served as a platform for promoting Obafemi Awolowo’s welfare programs and represented the interests of the Yoruba community during a time of ethnic competition. After Nigeria gained independence in the 1960s, while many publications were under government control, privately-owned newspapers such as the Nigerian Tribune, The Punch, Vanguard, and The Guardian continued to report on corruption in public and private sectors despite government censorship. Former military leader Ibrahim Babangida reportedly regarded the Nigerian Tribune as the only newspaper whose editorial columns he considered seriously. The publication was also featured in ''Leadership Failure and Nigeria's Fading Hopes'' by Femi Okurounmu, a book that include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVC News
TVC News is a Nigerian news 24-hour television news channel based in Lagos. The channel airs on British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSKYb) in the UK, Naspers Ltd. (NPN)'s DStv and Startimes in Nigeria, and Multi TV in Ghana. Former CEO Nigel Parsons states "Without shying away from reporting the conflicts or the corruption, the famines or the wars, the mission of TVC News is also to tell the many positive stories coming out of Africa. Stories – good or bad – will be told 'through African eyes'." The network aired its first public broadcasting run on 28 February 2013. It began airing in the UK on BSkyB on 17 June 2013. In its first few months the network's staff has received awards from the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) and the International Center for Journalists based out of Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Representatives (Nigeria)
The House of Representatives (also called Green Chamber) is the lower chamber of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly of Nigeria, National Assembly. The Senate of Nigeria, Senate is the upper chamber. The Green Chamber has 360 members who are elected in single-member Constituency, constituencies using the plurality (or first-past-the-post) system, most recently 2023 Nigerian House of Representatives election, in 2023. Members serve four-year terms. The presiding officer of the house is the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, Speaker, currently Tajudeen Abbas, Tajudden Abbas (as of May 2024). State delegations The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, assumes a National Assembly of Nigeria, National Assembly for the federation which consists of a Senate of Nigeria, Senate and a House of Representatives. The Senate consists of three members from each States of Nigeria, Nigerian state and one member from the Federal Capital Territory (Nigeria), Feder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers State
Rivers is a states of Nigeria, state in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria (Old Eastern Region). Formed on 27 May 1967, when it was split from the former Eastern Region, Nigeria, Eastern Region, Rivers State borders include Imo State, Imo and Anambra State, Anambra to the north, Abia State, Abia and Akwa Ibom State, Akwa Ibom to the east, and Bayelsa State, Bayelsa and Delta State, Delta to the west. The State capital, Port Harcourt, is a metropolis that is considered to be the commercial center of the Petroleum industry in Nigeria, Nigerian oil industry. With a population of 5,198,716 as of the 2006 census and an estimated population of 9,898,470 in 2024, Rivers State is the List of Nigerian states by population, 4th most populous state in Nigeria. Rivers State is a diverse state that is home to many ethnic groups including: Ikwerre people, Ikwerre, Degema, Nigeria, Degema, Ijaw people, Ijaw, Ogoni people, Ogoni, Ogba people, Ogba, Ekpeye, and Kalabari tribe, Kalabari. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Odili
Peter Otunuya Odili (born 15 August 1948) is a Nigerian politician who was the third elected Governor of Rivers State in Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007. Odili is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Background Peter Odili was born on 15 August 1948 in the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, Southern Nigeria. Odili graduated from the Medical School of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and pursued post-graduate work in Tropical Medicine at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Dr. Peter Odili is married to Justice Mary Ukaego Odili (b. 12 May 1952). In 1988/89, Dr. Odili was elected member and leader of Rivers State Delegates to the Constituent Assembly. In 1992, he was elected as the Deputy Governor of Rivers State. After the Nigerian Third Republic ended, he was again elected to the National Constitutional Conference and became the Conference Committee Chairman on State Creation. Odili thereafter became the National S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Rivers State
The Government of Rivers State consists of elected representatives and appointed officials responsible for the government of Rivers State, Nigeria. Rivers State has a population of about 5 million people, and is one of the 36 states that make up the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The state government is composed of the Executive (government), executive, Legislature, legislative, and Judiciary, judicial branches, whose powers are vested by the Constitution of Nigeria, Constitution in the Rivers State House of Assembly, House of Assembly, the Governor of Rivers State, Governor and the Rivers State High Court of Justice, High Court. The judiciary operates independently of the executive and the legislature. At the local level, elected officials are in charge of local government areas. Executive The executive branch is headed by the Governor of Rivers State, Governor, assisted by the Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Deputy Governor, both elected. The governor appoints the heads of parast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
