Category
page 1Nigerian schoolteachers

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Nigerian educator, political campaigner, suffragist, and women's rights activist

Flora Nwapa
Nigerian writer
Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya
Nigerian painter and sculptor (born 1932)
Oyinkan Abayomi
Nigerian politician (1897–1990)
Iyalode Wuraola Adepeju Esan
Nigerian activist and chief
Kofoworola Ademola
Yoruba Nigerian educationalist and first African woman to graduate from the University of Oxford

Alaba Lawson
Nigerian business magnate, entrepreneur, and academician
Ifeoma Okoye
Nigerian novelist
Tejumade Alakija
Nigerian civil servant (1925 – 2013)

Aminu Kano
Nigerian politician (1920–1983
Herzekiah Andrew Shanu
Nigerian photographer
Adeboye Babalola
Nigerian professor of languages and poet
P. A. Ogundipe
Nigerian educator and civil servant
Maitama Sule
Nigerian politician

Victor Adenuga Oyenuga
Nigerian Professor Emeritus of Agricultural science
Sankie Maimo
Cameroonian writer
Kola Tubosun
Nigerian writer, linguist, and teacher

Cornelius Taiwo
Nigerian academic (1910-2014)
Kofoworola Abeni Pratt
Nigerian-born nurse; first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria
Sarah Adebisi Sosan
Nigerian politician
Alvan Ikoku
Nigerian politician
Christie Ade Ajayi
Nigerian specialist in early childhood education and children's writer
Josiah Ransome-Kuti
Nigerian composer and clergyman
Done P. Dabale
First Resident Bishop of the United Methodist Church in Nigeria

Samuel Odulana Odungade I
40Th Olubadan of Ibadan
James Johnson
prominent clergyman and member of Nigeria's Legislative Council (1836–1917)