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Ayo Oni
Ayo Ade Oni was elected Senator for the Ekiti Central constituency of Ekiti State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic The Fourth Republic is the current republican government of Nigeria. Since 1999, it has governed the country according to the fourth republican constitution. Nigeria adopted the constitution of the Fourth Republic on 29 May 1999. Founding Foll ..., running on the Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999. After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999 he was appointed to committees on Aviation, Works & Housing, Transport, State & Local Government and Women Affairs. In a December 2001 survey of Senators, ''ThisDay'' characterized Oni as a "benchwarmer" a senator who had not been visible on the floor of the Senate or anywhere in the activities of the Senate. References Senators of the 4th National Assembly (Nigeria) Living people Ekiti State politicians Alliance for Democracy (Nigeria) politicians Yoruba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clement Awoyelu
Clement or Clément may refer to: People * Clement (name), a given name and surname * Saint Clement (other)#People Places * Clément, French Guiana, a town * Clement, Missouri, U.S. * Clement Township, Michigan, U.S. * Clement's Place, jazz club in Newark, New Jersey Other uses * Adolphe Clément-Bayard French industrialist (1855–1928), founder of a number of companies which incorporate the name "Clément", including: ** Clément Cycles, French bicycle and motorised cycle manufacturer ** Clément Motor Company, British automobile manufacturer and importer ** Clément Tyres, Franco-Italian cycle tyre manufacturer, licensed in America since 2010 * First Epistle of Clement, of the New Testament apocrypha * ''Clément'' (film), a 2001 French drama See also * * * * Clemens, a name * Clemente, a name * Clements (other) * Clementine (other) * Klement Klement is a given name and surname. People with that name include: Given name * Klement Gottwald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekiti State
Ekiti () is a state in southwestern Nigeria, bordered to the North by Kwara State for 61 km, to the Northeast by Kogi State for 92 km, to the South and Southeast by Ondo State, and to the West by Osun State for 84 km. Named for the Ekiti people—the Yoruba subgroup that makes up the majority of the state's population—Ekiti State was carved out from a part of Ondo State in 1996 and has its capital as the city of Ado-Ekiti. One of the smallest and most educated states with the highest number of professors in Nigeria, Ekiti is the 31st largest in the area and 30th most populous with an estimated population of nearly 3.5 million as of 2022. Geographically, the state is divided between the Nigerian lowland forests in most of the state and the drier Guinean forest–savanna mosaic in the north. Among the state's nature are false acraeas, mona monkey, forest buffalo, and grey parrot populations along with one of the last remaining Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, a population of more than 230 million, it is the List of African countries by population, most populous country in Africa, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's sixth-most populous country. Nigeria borders Niger in Niger–Nigeria border, the north, Chad in Chad–Nigeria border, the northeast, Cameroon in Cameroon–Nigeria border, the east, and Benin in Benin–Nigeria border, the west. Nigeria is a Federation, federal republic comprising 36 States of Nigeria, states and the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria, Federal Capital Territory, where its capital, Abuja, is located. The List of Nigerian cities by population, largest city in Nigeria by population is Lagos, one of the largest List of largest cities, metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigerian Fourth Republic
The Fourth Republic is the current republican government of Nigeria. Since 1999, it has governed the country according to the fourth republican constitution. Nigeria adopted the constitution of the Fourth Republic on 29 May 1999. Founding Following the death of the military dictator and ''de facto'' ruler of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha in 1998, his successor General Abdulsalami Abubakar initiated the transition which heralded Nigeria's return to democratic rule in 1999. The ban on political activities was lifted, and political prisoners were released from detention facilities. The constitution was styled after the ill-fated Second Republic — which saw the Westminster system of government jettisoned for an American presidential system. Political parties were formed ( People's Democratic Party (PDP), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and Alliance for Democracy (AD)), and elections were set for April 1999. In the widely monitored 1999 election, former military ruler Olusegun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance For Democracy (Nigeria)
The Alliance for Democracy is a progressive opposition political party in Nigeria. It was formed on 9 September 1998. At the 2003 legislative elections, the party won 8.8% of the popular vote and 34 out of 360 seats in the Nigerian House of Representatives and 18 out of 109 seats in the Nigerian Senate. The party was reportedly formed to shore up the stake of the Yoruba people in the Nigerian federation following the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election widely believed to have been won by Chief M. K. O. Abiola, a Yoruba businessman and tycoon. In 2007, Chief Dr. Christopher Ajuwa, from the Niger Delta region, ran for the of President of Nigeria under the AD. The party was embroiled in a leadership tussle between Mojisola Akinfenwa and Adebisi Akande, which lingered until September 2006 when the 'Bisi Akande faction merged with other opposition parties to form the Action Congress party. Notable members * Christopher Ajuwa * Cairo Godson Ojougboh, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senators Of The 4th National Assembly (Nigeria)
A senator is a member of a senate, a type of deliberative body. Senator(s) or The Senator may also refer to: People * Senator (bishop of Milan) (died 475), also known as Senator of Settala *Senator (consul 436), a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire * Henry of Castile the Senator (1230–1303), Castilian infante; the fourth son of Ferdinand III of Castile by Beatrice of Swabia *"The Senator", nickname for American jazz bassist Eugene Wright, member of The Dave Brubeck Quartet * Hermann Senator (1834–1911), German internist physician * Ronald Senator (1926–2015), British composer Sport teams *Ottawa Senators, a Canadian ice hockey team * Senadores de San Juan, a Puerto Rican baseball team * Senators Baseball Club, a 1946–1947 Japanese baseball team, now the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters * Tokyo Senators (1936–1939), later the Nishitetsu Baseball Club and other names, a defunct Japanese baseball team dissolved in 1943 *Washington Senators (1891–1899), a defunct U.S. base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Ekiti State Politicians in western Nigeria
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Èkìtì may refer to: *Ekiti people, one of the largest subgroups of Yoruba people of West Africa * Ekiti, Kwara, a Local Government Area in Kwara State, Nigeria *Ekiti State Ekiti () is a state in southwestern Nigeria, bordered to the North by Kwara State for 61 km, to the Northeast by Kogi State for 92 km, to the South and Southeast by Ondo State, and to the West by Osun State for 84 km. Named for the Ekiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance For Democracy (Nigeria) Politicians
Alliance for Democracy may refer to: * Alliance for Democracy (Dominican Republic) * Alliance for Democracy (Malawi) * Alliance for Democracy in Mali * Alliance for Democracy (Nigeria) The Alliance for Democracy is a progressive opposition political party in Nigeria. It was formed on 9 September 1998. At the 2003 legislative elections, the party won 8.8% of the popular vote and 34 out of 360 seats in the Nigerian House of ... * Alliance for Democracy (UK) * Alliance for Democracy (USA) * Alliance for Democracy, a fictional multinational organization in S. M. Sterling's Domination of Draka series of alternate-history novels See also * Alliance of Democracies * Alliance of Democrats (other) * Democratic Alliance (other) {{disambig, political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoruba Politicians
Yoruba may refer to: * Yoruba people, an ethnic group of West Africa * Yoruba language, a West African language of the Volta–Niger language family * Yoruba alphabet, a Latin alphabet used to write in the Yoruba language * Yoruba religion, West African religion * Yorubaland Yorubaland () is the homeland and cultural region of the Yoruba people in West Africa. It spans the modern-day countries of Nigeria, Togo and Benin, and covers a total land area of . Of this land area, 106,016 km2 (74.6%) lies within Niger ..., the region occupied by the Yoruba people * ''Yoruba'' (spider), a genus of ground spiders See also * {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
