Author: tope_litcaf
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Enoch Adejare Adeboye; Pastor who in 2009 was recognised as one of the most influential people in the world by Newsweek Magazine, USA. Adeboye is the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, which is one of the largest and fastest growing Pentecostal churches in the world. Adeboye came in contact with the…
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Eko Akete 1924 By Editor, Adekambi Indispensible part in the Administration of justice The legal education in recent years has attracted a lot of attention locally. This fact is evident from the great increase in the learned members of the Bar but yet in spite of this state of affairs how strange is it that…
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Falomo High Shool, formerly known as Ireti Grammar School, then Ikoyi High School, was founded in September 1981. Although the State government established the school, it still had to grow out of the very ordinary. The Rotary Club joined in the school’s early years in providing some facilities to accommodate the swollen number of students.…
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Federal Government Girls College Akure was established in October 1977 with an initial population of 72 students in Oke Aro, an Akure suburb. FEGGICOLA, as it is often called, has a strong boarding culture with two headmistresses overseeing each of the five boarding houses. Expectedly, it dominated many schools in its region for a long…
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Fela Sowande was a Nigerian music composer of international renown, born 1905 in Oyo. His early musical training was from his father, Emmanuel Sowande and a veteran composer, Thomas Ekundayo Phillips. Sowande went to London to study civil engineering, but he was soon supporting himself as a jazz musician. He founded a jazz septet, comprised…
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Femi Otedola is an entrepreneur, and major player of the Nigerian Oil industry, born to Michael Otedola, a former governor of Lagos State (1967) in Epe area of the state. He is the CEO of Zenon Petroleum, a supplier of fuels to many big Nigeria’s manufacturing companies, and also the biggest ship owner in the…
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Fertilizer, called Ajile in Yoruba (awakener of the soil), occurs in the form of solid, liquid or gas, supplies nutrients in known amount, to the plant. Since the 1937 demonstration of the efficacy of the Single Superphosphate (SSP) on cereal crops, coupled with several fertility studies at Ibadan, fertilizer had been used in Nigeria. Before…
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Federal Government College Ijanikin located in Kilometer 28, Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Lagos, was established in 1975 under temporary conditions. The Yaba Trade Center (now Federal Science and Technical College) which served as the site of the new secondary school proved inadequate for full school operations. The following decade started with the school moving to its present…
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Forest Cobra, Naja melanoleuca, called Oká in Yoruba, is an agile, diurnal species that climbs well and is more aquatic than other true cobras of genus Naja. They are big arboreal, aquatic, nocturnal and very fast snakes that can move quickly on land in the water and in the trees. They can grow to 2.5…