Author: tope_litcaf
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Senegal Chameleon, Chamaeleo senegalensis, is more ordinary looking than the Graceful Chameleon, the other species of Chameleon found in Nigeria. The dorsal crest is a single line of conicals that fade away towards the posterior without ornamentations. Color in this species range from grey to brown to green but, like all chameleons, they can change…
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Right is that which is generally accepted to be correct. While wrong is that which is generally agreed to be incorrect and is abhorred. The African woman’s rights have often been what the society decides for her. Her agitation against such rights and her refusal to be defined that way usually is her wrong from the…
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Yaba Medical School was a colonial medical training college founded in 1930 to train medical assistants with the award of a diploma. This school, which signaled the commencement of medical education in Nigeria, was merged with the newly formed University College of Ibadan in 1948, which graduated its first medical class in 1960. By this…
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Yellow-backed Duiker, Cephalophus sylvicultor, is named after the patch of white to orange wedge of erectile hair on its rump, which is conspicuous against the rest of its blackish-brown coat. This slender-legged duiker, found within the dense vegetation of southern Nigeria, is the largest of the diver antelopes. It weighs from 45 to 80 kg,…
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Ladoke Akintola was the politician and the eighth Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland who in 26 March, 1957 moved his famous motion for Nigeria’s independence that was frustrated by gradualists who asked for independence in 1959. Ladoke, a baroquely marked face, deeply indigenous man with great command of Yoruba oration, was born 1910 in Ogbomoso.…
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Aoole Arogangan was the Alaafin after Abiodun, who was a cousin. Aole Arogangan ruled for seven years. He was unpopular mostly because he compared terribly with his immediate predecessor. Aole, as Alaafin, was petty and he showed no particular ambition to be a good king. His suppressed malice and weakness combined to put an end…
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Basorun Gaha was the despotic General of the Old Oyo Empire who made and destroyed three successive Alaafins. Basorun Gaha’s inglorious career commenced in the days when Labisi was being prepared for the throne of Oyo. He killed the prince’s friends and silenced his supporters, thereby starting his own rule, which he surreptitiously did with…
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Afonja was the Great grandson of Laderin, founder of Ilorin town. Afonja was the most influential man in old Ilorin and he was responsible for the revolution that unbundled Oyo Empire. His actions also led to the lost of Ilorin town to foreign dominance. Afonja‘s father was one of the men who swelled the army that…
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Kokoro Gangan was the first Aare-Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba nation, a soldier from Iwoye who was friend to the Alaafin Ajagbo, the war-loving prince. After him, the title has become like that of a Field Marshal, and is conferred upon the greatest soldier and tactician of the day.