Did You Know? Ade Tuyo, Nigeria’s First Big Bakery CEO

While the memory of feasting on Defacto’s pretty treats endures with a fairly large number of people, comparatively fewer persons know about its founder, Ade Tuyo. A man who spotted business opportunities where most couldn’t see, he was able to establish a brand that carved out a large share for itself in what was a market dominated by foreign companies.
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Do You Know That Wole Soyinka is the First and Only Nigerian to Win a Nobel Award?

Amongst awards, there are ‘Awards’. The Nobel Prize is technically the ‘crème de la crème’ of awards; especially with regards to contributions made to humanity. The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances. This was in line with the will of the Swedish scientist, Alfred Nobel, who established the five Nobel prizes in 1895. The prizes are in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.
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Did You Know? The First Widely Used Programming Language Was Fortran

Fortran is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. It was the first commercially available programming language and was the first widely used high level general purpose programming language to have a functional implementation, as opposed to just a design on paper. It was first developed in 1954 but its first manual appeared in 1956 by a team led by John Backus at IBM.
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Did You Know ForLoop Africa Is Nigeria’s Own Largest Developer Community?

ForLoop Africa is one of the largest developer community across the continent for every and any software developer. The community was founded by a group of software developers and tech professionals, led by Ridwan Olalere, Prosper Otemuyiwa, Ire Aderinokun, and Christopher Nwaba, in 2016 in Nigeria, but it has spread across Africa, as a platform for people to share knowledge, connect with each other and grow and create opportunities to advance each other’s career.
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