Nigerian Hollywood actress, Uzo Aduba, wins Emmy Award

Hollywood actress, Uzoamaka Nwaneka Aduba, who stars in the hit series 'Orange Is The New black' picked up an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards which

MNCH: 3 youths on mission to deliver Nigerian women

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MNCH: 3 youths on mission to deliver Nigerian women

They are three of a kind – Babatunde Emmauel Ajidagba, Chukwudera Bridget Mmaduabu (nee Okeke) and Mu’azu Mohammed. All activists, their backgrounds are diverse, but their future is united by a common cause,which is the wellbeing and health of Nigerian women and girls.

Tunde, Chukwudera and Mu’azu, foresee a better future for Nigerian girls and women. They desire a better tomorrow for women and girls and are going all out to fulfil that goal.

The trio are Nigerian representatives of the Women Deliver’s 100 Young Leaders-a group of inspiring young people selected to receive scholarships to attend the largest global meeting of the decade to focus on the health and well-being of girls and women, (the 2013 Women Deliver conference), they have handed opportunity to learn more about issues affecting women and girls’ wellbeing and livelihood as well as connecting with experts from around the world.

As the conference gets underway today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, these young Nigerians, on a rescue mission of maternal health, are set to be part of history. Already, they have positioned themselves to join thousands of other maternal health advocates, from around the world, to attend the monumental world meeting.

“We are adding our voices to highlight the plight of women and girls on Earth,” stressed Bridget – a sociologist, independent consultant, development practitioner and experienced sexual and reproductive health and rights advocate. A a volunteer with Concern Women International Development Initative, and consultant for Citizen’s

Health and Education Development(CHEDI), Bridget hopes to learn the success stories and challenges of other countries in the bid towards the Nigerian government committing resources towards achieving better maternal health in the country.

“I’m hoping to add my voice to discussions on post 2015 agenda, particularly the implications for the realisation of young people’s sexual and reproductive health in developing countries,” she asserts

As for Babatunde, a final year medical student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria has similar ambitions. “My passion is for women and girls’ reproductive health and rights.

Coordinator of a Campus Health and Rights Initiative (CHRI) – a youth based organization promoting reproductive health and rights among young adults, Babatunde is providing quality, accessible, and affordable sexual and reproductive health education and health services to peers through an awareness programme tagged Campus Health Forum.

“My desire and wish for Nigerian girls and women is that their reproductive health will be promoted and their reproductive rights will be protected.”

Mu’azu, 26, is Program Support Assistant with Targeted States High Impact Project, TSHIP, a system strengthening project with focus on integrated interventions on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, MNCH; family planning and reproductive health in Sokoto, Sokoto State, Nigeria. Mu’azu  holds a Masters Degree in International Studies from Usmanu DanFodiyo University Sokoto, with a background in advocacy and community mobilization on sexual reproductive health and rights including HIV/AIDS.

“This conference is an opportunity for a young advocate who has interest in improving health of girls and women in Africa to meet other young people from other continents to others with different background and experiences with info and share exp and interact. There will be the opportunity to advocate with country delegates ministries of health and finance, and tell the need for young girls and women, in aspects of reproductive health matters.”

source: vangaurdngr

Kim Kardashian Reacts To The Fake Tweet About Nigeria After Omotola Advised Her.

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Kim Kardashian Reacts To The Fake Tweet About Nigeria After Omotola Advised Her.

After a long list of Gruel-some tweets from concerned Nigerians and an advice from Nigerian Ace actress Omotola Ekeinde  , Kim K finally reacts to the allegations about her tweeting about Nigerian Ladies being apes and said its a photoshop stunt by some dude.

Omotola's Tweet Advice............after the cut

Love you Omosexy!!!!

Kim K's Reaction: ..... after this cut

 

Kim Kardashian Tweet : VERY FAKE!!!!

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The last time Kim Kardashian trended in Nigeria was when she made her first visit to the country for Darey’s valentine concert in February. A month later, she’s burning up the social trend list in Nigeria over a ‘tweet’ which seemed to have erupted a lot of discomfort among Nigerians.




How dangerous can 140 characters be? Well, when Kim K allegedly tweeted that ‘Nigeria is such a disgusting country. I couldn’t wait to leave. lol Scott said their women look like apes and I agree’.

Although the tweet was fake, ‘photoshopped’ by a certain @chuckicheese, it went viral in minutes with Nigerians reacting- expectedly – negatively to it. The scenario became that serious and some blogs actually fell for the expensive joke.

‘Funniest s**t, I ALWAYS use @BET for my fake retweets but people still fall for it‘, @chuckicheese wrote on his Twitter last night.

Nigerian rapper 2shotz was one of the many Nigerians who also fell for it. ‘F**k kim kardarshian…..how wld she say such about naija girls?‘, he wrote on his Twitter page.

 Another fake tweet seemed to have convinced Nigerians that it was all a prank. ‘I wld av replied Nigerians but i don’t want to say anything and my oga at the top would say another thing‘, the second fake tweet read, borrowing from the recent ‘Oga at the top’ parodies.

Kim K however didn’t seem fazed, exchanging pleasant tweets with her sister all through the time she was trending in Nigeria

Nigerians attack Kim Kardashian on Twitter over her ALLEGED tweet that insults the country

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Nigerians attack Kim Kardashian on Twitter over her ALLEGED tweet that insults the country

Nigerians are currently throwing insults at Kim Kardashian on Twitter over an alleged tweet describing Nigerian women as Apes and the West African country as disgusting.

Barely a month after Reality TV star, Kim Kardashian visited Nigeria for a Valentine’s Day concert in Lagos where she surprisingly spent a few minutes and walked away with N82m, it’s seems the expectant mother wasn’t satisfied with the amount paid.

For some unknown reasons, Kim took to twitter and lashed out at Nigerians, going as far as calling Nigerian Ladies “Apes”

The tweet, which doesn’t appear on her timeline at the moment, is believed to have been doctored as her account verification tick is not present on the caption.

Check out the reactions of some Nigerians to this:

Even More Criminals On The Loose as Gunmen attack Nigerian prison

Even More Criminals On The Loose as Gunmen attack Nigerian prison

Gunmen attacked a prison in Ganye in Nigeria's eastern Adamawa state on Friday, setting free inmates and also looting a bank, a senior prison official and police said.

"I can confirm that there was a jailbreak in Ganye by some gunmen this evening. Explosives were used by the attackers to forcefully gain entrance into the prison," Andrew Barka, head of the state prison service, told AFP.

"We still don't know how many inmates were freed or if there were any casualties," he said.

State police spokesperson Mohammed Ibrahim confirmed that gunmen attacked the prison, a nearby police station, a tavern and a bank which he said was set on fire after they looted it.

Co-ordinated attacks

"We have received signals on co-ordinated attacks by some unknown assailants in Ganye this evening. They launched simultaneous attacks on the prison, the divisional police office, a bank and an open-air tavern," he said.

The gunmen used improvised explosive devices on their targets and fired assault rifles. He said that although details of the attacks were sketchy, troops and policemen have been deployed to the area.

A witness who escaped the attack on the tavern, Barnabas Haruna, said the well-co-ordinated attacks took place around 19:00 (18:00 GMT).

"The gunmen chanted Allahu Akbar (God is great) before they launched the attack on the tavern. There were explosions and gunshots. I ducked under a table, crawled and fled the scene," he told AFP.

"I don't know what happened to other people."

A resident said that "the prison, the police station and nearby bank which were some metres away were attacked. Prison officials initially engaged them in a gun duel but the attackers overpowered them."

"They emptied the bank vaults and set it on fire," he said.

It is not known how much money the gunmen looted.

Ganye is located some 100km from the state capital, Yola.

Source - AFP

Civil Defense Suspends Obafaiye Shem “My Oga at the Top”

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Civil Defense Suspends Obafaiye Shem “My Oga at the 

Top”

Information reaching us indicates that the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) has suspended – Mr. Obafaiye Shem, the Lagos State Commandant of the NSCDC a.k.a My Oga at the Top.

Shem’s suspension comes after his embarrassing ordeal at the Channel Television – while he was a guest of their morning show – Sunrise Daily.

We’ll give you more on this My Oga at the Top story

The Video That Might Have Caused His Suspension, after the cut.....

“I Am Not A Nigerian” – Femi Kuti

“I Am Not A Nigerian” – Femi Kuti

There are artistes who only got noticed because of a popular parent, but for Femi Kuti, whatever he has achieved today, he has worked hard for it. His father’s influence was key though, but Femi deserves everything he has in music today.

Award winning Femi Kuti, eldest son of legendary Afro beat pioneer Fela Kuti, says Afro beat is growing in leaps and bounds in several parts of the world despite its seeming gradual death in Nigeria.

“Afro beat can never die, maybe in Nigeria, but in America, there are over forty to fifty bands; in New York alone there are over 20 bands; it exists in Japan, Australia, San Francisco and other parts of the world. So when you think that afro beat is dying in Nigeria, in other parts of the world, it is becoming bigger and more popular,” Kuti told Vanguard.

And here is the part where it gets interesting; Femi Kuti says he’s not a Nigerian. Then he talks about why Nigerian artistes won’t do Afrobeat-he says it’s hard, and well, Nigerian artistes are lazy.

“It does not matter where it originated from, we are all from the same planet, and I am not going to get caught in the foolishness of being a Nigerian. I am not a Nigerian, I am an African. When you understand the history of Nigeria, Nigeria is a colonial structure set in motion by Lady Lugard. So Nigeria is not our name. When you understand the history of Africa, then you will not be foolish to fall into the category of calling yourself a Nigerian. I am an African, because you understand that Africa was divided 1885. When you look at it from that perspective, you will understand that people appreciate the talents that come out from this part of the world,” Kuti said

“If young Nigerian artistes are not playing afro beat and Americans are playing afro beat, then we need to ask ourselves the question why? Do you know what it takes to compose an afro beat number? Nigerian artiste won’t play afro beat because it is too difficult to play. The foundation of afro beat is based on emancipation of Africa, fighting against corruption and injustice; this is the uniqueness of afro beat, the truthfulness in the music, like what Bob Marley did with reggae. The difference is that Afro beat is deeper than reggae. So the diehard Fela fan want to see a replica of that. So for you to come out of that stereotype criticism, you will go through hell. I went through hell. Breaking out of my father nest was not easy. So I don’t expect, even for my son to break out of his grandfather or my nest, he is going to do something extra ordinary. But then you will look at it from the critical point that shows the uniqueness of the music and you have to be so talented and gifted.

“Anybody can do what is going on in the music scene. The biggest dullard can create a hit. All you need is a catching phase, it has become a hit, it is entertaining. When you now want to be critical of it, you will find that it is the kind of music you will laugh at and make fun of, it is not classical music or jazz,” Femi Kuti noted.

The artist who plays the saxophone with finesse is obviously sad about the state of the non-existent Nigerian music industry as he decries the way it’s being run, and the fact that artistes don’t take time to learn what they should. His preference would be Jazz and classical music anytime; he calls them real music.

“All the films you watch what are you hearing at the back ground are classical music. Do you take time out to ask yourself who composed or wrote the music? So the people making money, serious money in the entertainment industry music, you don’t hear their names. You only hear the names of Michael Jackson, but when you go into a Michael Jackson, you find out he doesn’t write his songs. How many people know Quincy Jones? He was the one that made Michael Jackson, he was the one that wrote the Thriller. So these are things that many people don’t know. So when I say we don’t have an industry, I know what I’m saying. We just want to eat the cherry of the industry. So there is so much that goes on and you have to go through years of training before you become a fantastic force to be reckoned with in classical music or jazz.”

Kim Kardashian recently made a cameo appearance at Darey’s show, Love Like A Movie, and she was reportedly paid $500K. Femi Kuti wonders why foreign artists are brought into Nigeria and are paid huge sums catered for by expensive tickets. He says tickets can’t be as expensive abroad.

“I will give you an insight into my career again, because I travel out and people think I must be a multi-millionaire. How do you rate some someone a multi-millionaire because he is traveling? I buy tickets for this band; I must pay salary, pay internal flight and transportation, now the venue there, you are not going to get more than a thousand people. It is not Nigeria where you charge people up to N25, 000 to watch a show; you cannot charge that outside the country. It is disgusting when you bring an American artiste from America and you are charging this kind of fee, because the maximum you will charge in America is thirty dollars. And if it is a big artiste, you put it in the stadium.”

A member of the panel of judges for the current edition of Nigerian Idol, Femi Kuti who had been impressed by the talents so far, spoke without mincing words, the failings of the show, and made recommendations for better shows in the future.

“It is called the Nigerian Idol; I hope in the future, it will be more African in its presentation, focusing on African hit songs or Nigerian hits. So if we are singing Whitney’s songs as a hit, of what good is it to us as a people? But if we are singing our hit songs irrespective of the artiste in Africa, we would be promoting the artiste and our culture in Nigeria and Africa to the world, because Nigerian Idol is shown all over the world. Nigerian Idol should be more African than American.”

Kuti believes there are no two ways to improving the show than making it more African. “By insisting that Nigeria or Africa songs are part of it, because I think that contestant feel that if they don’t sing one of the America hit songs they will not win. For instance when sing Fela’s song, they think they have to sing it like Fela did, or demonstrate like Fela, so the attitude already is wrong. But if you can sing the song better than Fela Anikulapo Kuti sing it, if you can sing better than a bob Marley sing it. The judges are looking for the unique voice texture. The talent show is just three years in the making, I think by its fifth or sixth year, it will change and contestant will know that they have the ability of singing a Nigerian hit song and still qualify to any stage of the competition. People have to feel confident to sing African songs. I noticed this time around that many of the contestants were singing either P square or D banj it is just that majority still sing America. By the time we get to the final six or so, the contest says the contestant must sing an African song to qualify.”

Femi says stakeholders in the Nigerian Music industry have to put the right structures in place; “We need to build solid foundation for generations to come, because what we are seeing in a country like Nigeria, with a hundred and eighty million people, we are going to have a big problem if these structures are not put in place.”

Nigerians Spend $6.5bn On 130 Private Jets - Aviation Sources

The growing penchant for private jets acquisition has cost wealthy Nigerians a sum of $6.5bn (N1.02tn) in the last five years. Aviation sources reveal that the luxury trend, which rose by 650 per cent between 2007 and 2012, is encouraged among the rich by the need for privacy, fear of insecurity and the urgency required by modern business.

Private jet ownership in Nigeria has grown by 650 per cent, from 20 jets in 2007 to over 150 jets in 2012.

According to documents sighted in aviation agencies, the development means that wealthy Nigerians acquired, at least, 130 private jets with a sum of N1.02tn ($6.5bn) within the last five years.

This put the private jets aviation market in Nigeria (the monetary value of all private jets in the country) at N1.18tn ($7.5bn), using $50m as the average cost of each brand new private jet.

A private jet goes for between $40m and $65m, according to the websites of major private jets manufacturers, like Bombardier of Canada; GulfStream and Hawker Siddley of United States; and Embraer of Brazil.

According to findings, the common brands of private jets in Nigeria are Gulfstream 450, 550 and 650; Bombardier Challenger 604, 605; Global Express; Embraer Legacy and Falcons; and Hawker Siddley 125-800 and 900XP.

Top aviation officials told our correspondent on Friday that Nigeria currently rivalled China as one of the two fastest growing private jet markets in the world.

An official with in-depth knowledge of the situation, who spoke under condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to comment on the matter, said most of the jets were bought by top politicians, oil magnates and other business moguls in Nigeria.

He explained that the economic downturn in Europe and the United States had made Nigeria and China to become two of the fastest growing private jet markets in the world.

He said, “Two countries buying private jets now are China and Nigeria. Europe and America are going through turmoil; so, their people are no more buying. This accounts for the trend that whenever some of the private jet manufacturers develop any new jet, they take them to Nigeria and China.”

“The private jets in Nigeria are owned by top politicians, oil magnates and business moguls. It is difficult to get the real identities of owners of some of the private jets in Nigeria because they buy them through some foreign companies in North America, especially the US. The foreign company then leases it to another company in Nigeria.”

Investigation by our correspondent also revealed that there were still several private jets on order by wealthy Nigerians. Some of the jets, it was learnt, would be delivered this year, while others would be delivered in 2013 and 2014.

A top official of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, who asked not to be named, said representatives of the owners of the private jets on order had already notified the agency about the order. This, he said, was necessary for the purpose of registering the aircraft in Nigeria. According to him, some of the private jets also come with foreign registration credentials.

The Managing Director of Aero Airlines, Captain Akin George, had recently commented on the increasing number of private jets being parked at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

He particularly lamented the fact that most of the private jets carried foreign registration credentials. He had subsequently called on the authorities concerned in the country to make registration processes in Nigeria friendly and attractive.

During a recent visit to Abuja, our correspondent observed that over 40 private jets were parked at the terminal.

The CEO of another airline also said that during political meetings or big functions in Abuja, over 50 private jets were usually seen parked at the Abuja airport.

These, he said, were different from the ones parked at the Lagos and other major airports across the country.

“If you go to the old local wing at the Abuja airport, there is virtually no place to park private jets again,” he said

Just on Thursday, a team of officials from the headquarters of Bombardier in Canada arrived at the Executjets Private Hangar at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, to showcase one of their latest private jets, Global 6000.

The team was led by the Sales Director, Africa, Bombardier Business Aircraft, Mr. Robert Habjanic, who said that the team was on a tour of 12 cities in Africa, including Lagos. Habjanic, who spoke with a few aviation journalists, told our correspondent that Nigeria was the company’s largest market in Africa, with about 35 Bombardier-made business aircraft currently flying its airspace.

He said the team had also showcased the relatively new business jet in other parts of the world.

He confirmed that “private business in Nigeria has been growing tremendously in the last five years.”

He attributed this to the fact that “Nigeria is an emerging market.”

The growth in the purchase of private jets in Nigeria has also led to the development of multimillion dollars private jets hangars, where repairs and maintenance could be done in the country. Some of these include Execujets Nigeria Hangar, Caverton Hangar and EverGreen Hangar, all located at the Lagos airport.

Speaking on the development, industry expert, Mr. Olumide Ohunayo, said, “The economy is expanding, with increasing investments within the country and the region. This will invariably necessitate instantaneous travel that scheduled airlines cannot provide.

“Also the privacy needed in a country filled with paparazzi can be an issue. Increasing political and religious issues are contributory. By and large, it will continue to increase if the economy continues with a lot of diversification inputs that naturally spread wealth.”

Source: Punch

Nigeria: Clinton Lists Nigeria's Challenges

Abeokuta — Former President of United States of America, Bill Clinton, said yesterday in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, that the inability to manage the nation's natural resources well was one of the three major challenges Nigeria was facing as a nation.

The former US president, who was speaking at the 18th Annual Awards of Thisday newspaper, organised to celebrate Nigeria's best teachers, further tasked Nigerian leaders to tackle unemployment, brain-drain and to maximise the potential of the citizens.

The 42nd American President, who spoke in the presence of former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, his counterpart in Delta, Emmanuel Uduaghan and other notable Nigerians, said Nigerian leaders mismanaged the proceeds from oil, under-utilised technology and failed to retain its best brains.

Clinton said: "When I became President, my Secretary of Commerce did a lot of work in Africa before he was tragically killed in a plane crash in 1995.

"I said he should make a list of 10 most important countries in the world for the 21st century. Nigeria was in the list.

"Imagine the future of the entire continent if Nigeria fails or South Africa fails. So, you are a country of potential. I will say you have about three big challenges.

Oil money, economic distribution, brain-drain

"First of all, like 90 percent of the countries, which have one big resource, you haven't done well with your oil money. You should have reinvested it in different ways. Now you are at least not wasting the natural gas. You are developing it in pipelines but you don't do a better job of managing natural resources.

"Secondly, you have to somehow bring economic opportunity to the people who don't have. This is not a problem specific to Nigeria. Almost in every place in the world, prosperity is heavily concentrated in and around urban areas.

"So you have all these political problems: violence, religious differences, and all the rhetoric of Boko Haram.

"But the truth is the poverty rate in the north is three times greater than what it is in the Lagos area. To deal with that, you have to have both powerful stake in the local governments and a national policy that work together.

"As you keep trying to divide the power, you have to figure out a way to have a strategy that will help in sharing prosperity.

"The third thing is there has to be a way to take the staggering intellectual and organisational ability that Nigerians exhibit in every country in the world in which they are immigrant and bring it to bear here, so that the country as a whole can rise.

"One of the people on my trip with me today, who unfortunately could not come up here because he had to go and visit his family, is a young Nigerian-American named Nnamdi. He is an all pro-quarter back footballer for the Philadelphia Eagles.

"He's a wonderful man; he does great work in America for poor kids in Arkansas City and he became a friend of mine.

"Both his parents have PhDs. His sister has a PhD. He often says 'I'm the failure in my family and I only have a university degree and I play football.'

"My point is: there are Nigerians who are like this all over the world. What you have to figure out is how to keep those people in Nigeria and how to ensure their success encourages others in the country.

Solutions

"So, I think solving the economic divide that is in your country will help the political divide; making better use of your resources.

"Nigeria is trying to set up an investment fund where the Federal Government will set it up and the governors are being consulted so that they can concentrate the capital. That is the problem in India.

"They have unbelievable entrepreneurs but they are not very good at collecting capital and investing it in infrastructure so that they can unite the poor part of the country with the rich part. That's what you have to do. And then, you have to empower people with education so they can succeed at home as well as around the world."

Speaking on the essence of education, Clinton said: "I have to explain that education is more important in dealing with the challenges facing Nigeria. On the continent and the entire world, we are living a revolutionary time, full of positive and negative forces.

"The information technology is good for people who can take advantage of it. I see this all over the world. Cell phones give farmers the access to information about crop prices and fish prices in Africa and Asia.

"It increases their income by reducing their ignorance. It is empowerment. People are using cell phones to have banking services for the first time.

"I see it even in the United States where people who thought they have no money to help others donate a billion dollars to Haiti during the earthquake because ordinary citizens use their cell phones to make transfer to an account and they had a billion dollars.

Education, globalisation

"It is an age where if we are sufficiently educated we can be empowered but with enormous challenges. First of all, with all of these new opportunities which technology had given us, we have not yet succeeded in automatically reducing poverty and inequality of opportunity in accessing education and health care.

"It is a global phenomenon. If we really want to take advantage of education, empowerment and information technology, we have to tackle this problem. The second problem we have in the world is instability as we all know.

"We have to stop this problem. One major problem of unemployment is this instability all over the world. We have not yet solved the problem of how to embrace our potential and common humanity.

"And until we do this, the globalisation of the economy, the globalisation of the society for information technology will continue to face serious trouble. We have to deal with how to maximise the capacity of all the people through education.

"We have to find a way through education, through the information technology revolution to change the way we produce and consume energy and to change the way we use local resources in a way that sustains them.

"We have to know how to do this and do it right. And in every case, education will play a major role whether in developed or developing countries. We need intelligent people to take a new way to challenge themselves.

"There is a lot of work to be done but we cannot ever neglect the role of education. So I want to end my remarks by saying two things. Every year at the opening of the United Nations, I sponsor a meeting where we invite the global leaders to come.

"We actually ask people to make a commitment to do something and we are all making progress."

Obaigbena speaks

Speaking earlier, Editor-in-Chief and Chairman, Thisday, Nduka Obaigbena explained that the choice of Abeokuta as the venue for the 18th edition of the award was made by Clinton due to the presence of Presidential Library.

According to him, Delta, Port Harcourt and Abeokuta were the options presented to Clinton as the venue before Abeokuta was chosen by the ex-American President.

He eulogised eminent media personalities present, including former governor of the state, Chief Olusegun Osoba, the Chairman and Publisher of Vanguard newspapers, Mr. Sam Amuka, among others.

Obaighena disclosed that 15 best teachers were selected by a panel headed by Vice President World Bank (Africa) and former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, from 700 nominees.

Awardees

Those who bagged the Builder of Modern Nigeria awards were Oba Otudeko; professor of musicology, Laz Ekwueme; deposed Sultan, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki; Osile of Oke-Ona, Oba Adedapo Tejuoso, and Chief Rasak Okoya.

The 15 best teachers, who received N2 million each, were Mrs Victoria Jolayemi, Mrs Dorothy Ugwu and Mrs Christie Ade-Ajayi, for primary school category.

For secondary category, Rev. Father Angus Frazer, Chief D.B.E. Ossai, Mrs Yakubu Dimka, Chief Reuben Majekodunmi, Chief Dotun Oyewole, Mrs. John O. B. Adeaga, Mr. Bawa Mohammed Faskari and Hadiza Thani Muhammed were honoured as best teachers.

In the universities category, Prof. Iya Abubakar, Prof. Frank Ugiomoh, Prof. Michael Obadan and Prof. Eunice Nkiruka Uzodike, were given award.

Culled from the Vanguard