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Arthur Prest (footballer)
Chieftain, Chief Arthur Edward Prest (10 February 1906 – 26 September 1976) was an Itsekiri politician of biracial heritage from the Warri, Nigeria, Warri division of southern Nigeria. Life Prest was born in February 1906 to a white English people, English father from Liverpool who was a ship's captain and a merchant trader, and an Itsekiri royal Nigerian people, Nigerian mother, Princess Mami Ogbe, who was the daughter of the Olu of Warri. He was an officer in the Nigerian police force, and the first Nigerian commissioned police officer. He studied law in England, and registered at the supreme court of Nigeria in 1947, prior to his nomination as a representative of the Warri district in the Western Regional House of Assembly. In 1950 Prest and Anthony Enahoro founded the ''Mid-West Party''. Enahoro had already started the Mid-West Press and he published the ''Nigerian'' newspaper from 1950 to 1953. The Mid-West Party became part of the Action Group (Nigeria), Action Group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Prest-Ajayi
Helen Prest-Ajayi, formerly Prest-Davies, (née Prest, born 17 September 1959) is a Nigerian lawyer, writer and former beauty queen. Helen was raised in England. She attended the International School Ibadan for her advanced levels and Obafemi Awolowo University for her undergraduate studies in Law prior to her pageantry. After she was crowned Miss Nigeria at the age of 19 in 1979, she represented Nigeria at the Miss World pageant and furthered her education at King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ..., earning an LLM. She was also active as a columnist in the 1990s. She is currently the CEO of Media Business Company. She is the granddaughter of the Nigerian founding father Chief Arthur Prest and daughter of politician Chief Michael Godwin Prest. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
