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Short Biography: Rear Admiral Itunu Hotonu
Her dream was to join the services of the Nigerian Army. But when she applied, she was told bluntly that the Army had no place for women in its engineering corps. She was heartbroken. Saddened bygd the unexpected turn of events, she spent the following days brooding until someone told her that the Navy would accept her, regardless of her gender.
She did, and today Rear Admiral Itunu Hotunu has been setting the pace in the force, and has gone ahead to become the first woman to attain the exalted rank of a Rear Admiral in the history of the Nigerian Navy.
The 52-year-old Admiral from Badagry, Lagos State, can be said to be first in everything she has done. Hotonu is the first child in a family of four girls, and has always taken the first position in class right from her primary school days till this day.
She was among the first set of architects to be enlisted into the Nigerian Navy and it is on record that Hotonu was the first fem • Nigerian journalist and newspaper founder Dele Giwa (16 March 1947 – 19 October 1986) was a Nigerianjournalist, editor, and founder of Newswatch magazine. He was murdered when he opened the package with a bomb at his Ikeja, Lagos residence on October 19, 1986. Sumonu Oladele "Baines" Giwa hailed from Ugbekpe Ekperi, Etsako East local government area of Edo state. He was born on 16 March 1947, to a family working in the palace of Oba Adesoji Aderemi, the Ooni of Ife. He attended local Authority Modern School in Lagere, Ile-lfe. When his father moved to Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife as a laundry man, he gained admission to that school.[1] Dele Giwa travelled to the USA for his higher education, earning a BA in English from Brooklyn College in 1977 and enrolled for a Graduate program at Fordham University. He worked for The New York Times as a news assistant for four years after which he relocated to Nigeria to work with Dail • Ramatu Tsav is the daughter of a former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Tsav. She tells ALEXANDER OKERE about the late elder statesman’s life as a father and why he spoke against the ills of society Can you introduce yourself? My name is Ramatu Iveren Tsav. I am the fifth child of seven children of my father, Abubakar Tsav. I presently work as an administrator in a school in Lagos and I have two beautiful children. Both are in university. Many Nigerians knew your dad as a retired police commissioner and an elder statesman. How would you describe him? He was a really loving and good father. He was a disciplinarian too; he made sure we fell into place the way it should be. He was also soft-hearted. Forget about what people say about him being hard. I would say he had a heart for so many things. He was someone who wanted to unite all of us together
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