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Kabiru Yusuf; Kastina born media chief and executive of Daily Trust, widely circulated and printed in Lagos and Abuja. Born in June 1956, Kabiru Yusuf is an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University and University of Toronto, Canada. He began his journalism career in 1984 after a stint as a teacher. He has at various times…
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Taiwo Malumi; Nigerian medical doctor, Ilaje born and University of Ibadan-trained Malumi berthed the first air ambulance service in West Africa when he established Medic Air, first air ambulance in Nigeria in 1994 after successfully turning a four-bed space hospital to 60-bed space. Malumi’s Funtai Hospital and Maternity Homes in Port-Harcourt, River State capital, was…
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Oronto Douglas; Environmentalist, born in 1966 at Okoroba, Bayelsa State. He was a leading human rights attorney in Nigeria, and served as one of the lawyers on the defense team for the Ogoni leader, Ken Saro Wiwa, who was executed by Nigeria’s military rulers in 1995. Douglas co-founded Africa’s foremost environmental movement, the Environmental Rights…
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Jacob Festus Ade Ajayi; Distinguished Historian, university professor, and one-time Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos. He became a visiting professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles Summer School, in 1963. He is a fellow, Ghana Historical Society, GHS, Overseas Historical Association, OHA. Ade Ajayi was also foundation fellow of the Historic Society of…
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Public Administrator, Fashion designer, and beautician honored by the Oba of Lagos, Adeyinka Oyekan as Iya Oge of Lagos in 1973, Oprah obtained a B.Sc. degree in Education from Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia in USA in 1958, and a Master’s of Arts degree in Education from Atlanta University, also in Georgia, USA. She obtained…
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The central figure in Ifa divinity is Orunmila, the God of wisdom who, in Yoruba myth, was witness to earth’s creation. There is no going further in human history than that. Oduduwa’s link with immortality comes from his sometimes being equated with Orunmila in Yoruba myth. Orunmila uses his special insight as a witness to…
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Kainji National Park; Established in 1979 and located in Kwara State, the wildlife park is one of Nigeria’s most flaunted resort centres and is one of the largest game reserves in the West Coast. It incorporates the Borgu Game Reserve and Zugurma Game Reserve to the southeast in Niger State. The Bourgu sector of the…
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Ekimogun Day: Carnival in Ondo town, incorporating dances, marches and impressive cultural extravaganza. First, the drums roared at sunrise. And the crowd at the civic centre erupted in ecstasy. The tingling sound of gong and tumbrels reverberated in the air, throwing spectacles and spectators into a collective reverie. Then usually a stampede follows as members…
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Ondo: Town founded by a set of twins who were sent out by their parents from Oyo town to avoid being killed. In those days, twins were regarded as strange creatures and sacrificed upon delivery, to appease the gods. During their sojourn, one of the twins finally came to the place now known as Ondo…
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Osemawe is the paramount traditional ruler of the Ondo, often referred to as ‘Egins’, a Yoruba people with a sub-ethnic identity dating back to the 16th century[i]. Osemawe genealogical tree shows an astonishing completeness. It names every Oba and the duration of their reigns since Oba Pupupu about 1510. Starting with Oba Pupupu in the…