Tag: Nigerian history

Sir Adeyemo Alakija was born Placido Adeyemo Assumpcao on May 12, 1884, in Abeokuta, Ogun state, Nigeria. He was the ...

Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge was a self-taught photographer and one of the pioneers of Nigerian photography. He was the first ...

Jonathan Adagogo Green (J.A. Green) was Nigeria's first indigenous professional photographer, noted for his photo documentation of the colonial days ...

Sir Louis Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu, (1909– September 1966) was a Nigerian business tycoon. Ojukwu was said to have made his ...