Author: tope_litcaf
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Theophilus Owolabi Sobowale Benson was a Lagos lawyer and prominent member of Nigeria’s pre and post independence aristocracy. Born in Ikorodu in 1917, Benson lived for 91 years, a life that is remembered for high attainment and personal style. He attended CMS Grammar School, Lagos and after working briefly in the civil service as a…
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Table Tennis is a racquet sport played by hitting a lightweight ball back and forth across a hard table divided by net, using a small round racket. Although the Table Tennis started in Victorian England as an indoor sport, the game as it is today known was started in 1926 with the formation in Europe,…
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Tailor Cole House, an historic Lagos building also called Benjamin House, is located at the intersection of Alhaji William Street and Breadfruit Street, and has combined Brazilian and Sierra Leonean architecture. Late Benjamin built it. A Brazilian craft man carried out the construction work. Tailor Cole bought the house from late Benjamin and ownership was…
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Ibadan Grammar School is a public secondary school founded in 1913 as a Christian school, the oldest of the 1,000 in Oyo state. With a long and very proud history, Ibadan Grammar School had moved to its present site, Molete, in 1951. Some nine years before then, the school had excised its elementary section to…
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Chieftaincy, the highly developed system through which leadership is conferred in pre-colonial Western Nigeria existed in several tiers; some military and some, civil. Associations such as the Ogboni, Tradesmen, craftsmen, or market women are usually the entities which serve as the authority conferring the titles of, to mention a few; Balogun, Otun, Osi, or Agbaakin…
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Day Waterman College is a co-educational boarding school near Abeokuta. School was founded by Tayo Aderinokun, who was also one of the co-founders of Guaranty Trust Bank. The school has a FIFA sized football pitch, basketball courts, Golf practice green and other awe inspiring sports facilities. The school Library, though surprisingly not as ostentatious, is…
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Tayo Aderinokun was a financial expert and co-founder of Guaranty Trust Bank, one of the most profitable corporate institutions in Nigeria. Born 8 May 1955, Tayo Aderinokun studied Business Administration at the University of Lagos and took an MBA degree with special concentration on International Business from the Graduate School of Management, University of California,…
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Entrepreneurship is defined in an economics library portal as the process of discovering new ways of combining resources. The entrepreneur’s success may therefore be determined by the market value of these combinations. In one of the early uses of this term, a discrepancy is being made from investor by qualifying the entrepreneur as one who…