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Dele Giwa
Brobdingnagian journalism, simply put, is a form of journalistic practice in which a media person espouses home truths or seeks them with seemingly superhuman effort. So, are you a bold, fearless, courageous and professionally hardworking journalist with an investigative mind for scoops? Are you also a journalist who can date the establishment with uncensored reports? And are you a truly independent media hand who Full Story
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Sunny Okosun (OON)
Suny Okosun (OON)(sometimes called "Sonny Okosuns") as "one of the most recognisable names in Nigerian popular culture. He was born in Benin City, Edo State,in 1947.He started his first band, the Postmen, in 1964, then served several years in the group of Victor Uwaifo before launching Paperback Ltd. (soon renamed Ozziddi)in 1972 a back-to-African-roots trend with a stylistic mix of Western pop and local highlife .He later broadened it to Full Story
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Professor Micheal Osarenogowu Agho
ON May 16, 2009, I spent about two hours with a man who had less than a day to live. He did not know it and neither did I. He was not on death row and did not suffer from an illness whose fatal finality had been accurately forecast by doctors, as in the case of one sickle cell patient.It was in Benin City on a Saturday morning that had stretched its limbs but had not fully stirred. The murmuring of movements could be heard, but the clangour of a city in full cry was absent. Full Story
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Prof Ambrose Folorunsho Alli
Professor Ambrose Folorunsho Alli was the first Executive governor of {Bendel state} now split into Edo and Delta states , was born in Idoani, Ondo state, on September 19, 1929. His father hail from Emuado quarters of Ekpoma. Professor Alli had his primary school education in Ondo and Edo state .He began his education at Mary’s catholic school, Oka-Odo, Ondo state in 1937. Between 1938 and 1939, he was a pupil at the catholic school Ekpoma.He returned to Oka-Odo Ondo state Full Biography
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Prof Benson Idahosa
Benson Andrew Idahosa was born in Benin City on September 11, 1938 of Apoor pagan parents. He was a sickly infant who was always fainting. As a result of his constant illness his father ordered the mother to throw him in the dust bin. When he was eighteen months old he was left on a rubbish heap to die.He was rejected by his father, sent to work on a farm as a servant and was denied education until he was fourteen years old. His education was irregular due to the poor . Full Biography
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General Agbazika Innih
Major General Agbazika Innih served as military Governor of Bendel state from 1975 to 1976 and was later deployed to kwara state as military Governor from 1976-1978.He was born on September 25, 1939 at Agenebode, and educated at catholic school, Akure; Government school warri; Holy cross catholic Benin City and Edo College Benin City.
He enlisted in the Nigeria Army in 1962 and attended the Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot and Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst both in England.Full Biography
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