Meet Adeola-Akande, House of Reps First Female Majority Leader
Meet Adeola-Akande, House of Reps First Female Majority Leader
Mulikat Adeola-Akande is one of the prominent figures featured in a Compendium celebrating Nigeria’s builders at 60. It is a special publication by Sprezzatura Publishing which aims at educating Nigerians about the rich and diverse cultures and experiences of various Nigerians who have contributed to the growth, stability, peace, and development of the country and who were coincidentally born the same year the country attained independence.
However, political developments in Lagos, the commercial engine room of Nigeria, had a lot to do with shaping her later political activism. As a young law graduate, she was keenly monitoring political events. At some point, she was glued to televised programmes of the National Assembly, the Legislative arm of the Nigerian government.