It all began at number 27 Kakawa Street, off Broad Street in Lagos. In October 1962, two years after Nigeria’s Independence, pioneer Immigration Officers drawn from the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) were enrolled into the then Immigration Department. It will interest many to know that what is now Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) used to be […]
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In a recent interview, which featured Senator Tanko Al-Makura’s young daughter, Iman, she made a statement about her father, which profundity she might not have understood. Asked if her choice of career ever pitched her against her parents, given that as holder of a combined honours degree in Law and International Relations, University of Sussex, UK, she could have used her father’s influence to secure for herself a juicy job or live on her parent’s affluence like other children of the ruling class, Iman said: “My father is a very, very simple man. The same goes for my mother. And don’t forget that my father is a businessman…. His father, that is, my grandfather, was equally a renowned businessman.”
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