Author: tope_litcaf
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Deola Sagoe is the frontline Nigerian haute couture designer daughter to Michael Ade Ojo of Elizade Motors. Deola was educated at the University of Miami and University of Lagos with a Masters in Finance and Management before she discovered her passion. Adopting the trade name, O’dua Originals, she made her debut in 1998. Deola became…
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Gaboon Viper, Bitis gabonica, is a venomous snake occurring in West Africa. They are the largest of the vipers, with an average adult length of about 1.2 meters. The species is represented by the B. g. rhinoceros subspecies in Nigeria, distinct by the presence of large nasal “horns”. Called Paramole in Yoruba, meaning, “hidden in…
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Galago or Bushbabies are small, wolly, long-tailed primates with mobile, oversized naked ears. It belongs to the family Galagidae, infraorder Lorisiformes and suborder Strepsirrhini. Species include cameronensis, demidoff, gabonensis, gallarum, granti, matschiei, moholi, nyasae, orinus, rondoensis, sengalensis, thomasi, zanzibaricus and alleni which is found in Nigeria. This primate is called Egbere or Èmì in Yoruba language…
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Garveyism was the Pan-African philosophy of the Jamaican political leader, Marcus Garvey, in the early 20th Century, aimed at precipitating a global movement of economic empowerment. Garvey preached the unity of all blacks, claiming that liberty would come about only through the return of all Afro-Americans to their ancestral home. Although the Universal Negro Improvement…
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Gberu was the Alaafin of Oyo after Ojigi, the indulgent father who died with his son, and immediate predecessor of Amuniwaiye, the king disgraced because of his affairs with his medicine man’s wife. Gberu hardly performed better than any of these two, for he was recorded as a wicked and superstitious king, whose delight was magic. His…
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Gboluji Grammar School was established in 1954 through the communal effort of Ile-Oluji people. In latter years, the school’s administrative powers had been ingeniously transferred to Ondo state government. Gboluji is prided as been the producer of the host town’s first general interest newspaper. The school has produced eminent persons. The school foot field was…
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George& Duke International College like many private secondary schools in Nigeria, emerged as an offshoot of a Primary school that was established by a couple, Niran and Ranti Olurin in 1994. Six years after the first founding, the success of the initial experiment inspired the need to replicate it in a higher level. The school…
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George Debayo Agbebi was the Civil engineer and scholarly nephew of Mojola Agbebi, born 1886 in Lagos. Agbebi was educated in C.M.S. Grammar School, Lagos before proceeding to the University of Birmingham, England where he graduated with high honors, coming third in Geology class of fifty-seven. For six months he was engaged to supervise the…
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Gerontocracy is a government consisting mostly of elders. This system was prevalent in antiquity, in the southwest of Nigeria, where much credence is paid to the belief that maturity and wisdom comes with age. Age was the first qualification which a prospective member of the town’s administrative conclave of ancient time, the Ogboni, must acquire.…
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Giant Eland, Tragelaphus derbianus, also known as the Lord Derby eland, is the largest antelope, and the Eastern Giant Elands subspecies T. d. gigas which once lived in the an open-forest savanna of the Nigerian northeastern region is now extinct. Giant Eland is characterized by a body size larger than its Western Giant Eland relative that is…