According to history, a census was first conducted in the area known today as Nigeria in the year 1866 by the British colonial government within the Colony of Lagos. There were also decennial censuses conducted only for the Lagos Colony in the years 1871, 1881 and 1901, respectively. 10 years later, in the year 1911, the census exercise covered the Southern Protectorate, including Lagos and the Northern Protectorate. Thereafter, there had been a census in 1921, 1931, 1951/53, 1962, 1963, 1973, 1991 and 2006. A census is very important because it enables the government to plan adequately for the population based…
Author: Tony Ademiluyi
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida lived a life soaked in blood. Joining the army in 1962 meant that he was trained to kill his fellow man. He would later participate in a plethora of bloodless coups. When he came to power in August 1985, it was widely hailed as the nation had seen enough of the draconian laws which the duo of Muhammadu Buhari and Late Tunde Idiagbon made. Babangida toppled Buhari in a palace coup which involved him tricking Idiagbon to go to Saudi Arabia and there was a breath of fresh air all over the country. The dark clouds…
Nuhu Ribadu shot to national prominence in 2003 when the then President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed him as the pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He got endeared to the international community when he famously rejected a $15 million bribe by an allegedly corrupt governor to compromise his investigation of him. After he left the police force as an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), he tried his hands in partisan politics where he became the presidential candidate of the then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011 and since then has gone on to become a…
