Author: tope_litcaf
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Kidvarc High School is a private secondary school in Iree, Osun state, borne out of a very rosy idealism. S.O Omotosho, on realizing the dearth of a research oriented uniquely African approach to children education, had come up with ways to bring the richness of culture to the African child. The school’s name, Kidvarc, means…
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Klipspringer, Oreotragus oreotragus is a small stocky African antelope reputed for its rock-jumping attribute. The Western Klipspringer, O. o. porteousi, of Nigeria, known for walking on the tips of their hoofs in rocky outcroppings, occurs around the Jos Plateau and also in the east in the Gashaka-Gumpti National Park. The short yellowish hollow coat appears…
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Kob, the graceful orange-brown antelope, Kobus kob, of the West/Central African savannah and floodplains is known for the spectacular sight afforded by the herds during annual migration. Kobs are ecologically restricted, preferring low-lying flats or gently rolling country, free of seasonal extremes and close to permanent water. These antelopes prefer perennial grasses in their early…
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Kofoworola Abeni Pratt was an illustrious nurse who made highly regarded contribution to her profession in Nigeria. Born into a middle class family in 1918, Kofoworola trained as a teacher in the University Missionary College in Ibadan because of her father’s disapproval of her intention to be a nurse. She taught at C.M.S. Grammar School…
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ADEMOLA Kofoworola, educationist and children books author, known later in life as Lady Ademola, being wife of Adetokunbo Ademola, the first indigenous Chief Justice of Nigeria. Kofoworola was an early 20th Century symbol of educated elite, born 1914 to a lawyer father, Eric Moore, who was a member of the Colonial Legislative Council and who…
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Jane McCotter, nursing sister of Irish descent and founder of the Infant Welfare Center in Abeokuta was born in 1870. McCotter worked briefly in the colonial nursing service, but after an ideological conflict with British authorities who disfavoured ‘home birth’, she joined the Egba native authority. By 1955 when she died, McCotter had received several…
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Joseph Odeleye Fadahunsi was born 1901 in Ilesha. As an Ijesha NCNC elder statesman, he replaced Adesoji Aderemi, the Ooni of Ife as governor of the Western Region in 1 January 1963. His subsequent invitation of Ladoke Akintola to form a new government sparked violence that signaled the end of the Nigerian first republic. Fadahunsi…
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Communism is an ideology based on the precept of “common ownership” most popularly believed to have originated from the Greek philosopher, Plato’s 380BC piece, “The Republic” in which he described a state where people shared all their property, wives, and children. With the 1917 October revolution in Russia that brought the first communist organization to…
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Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso (LAUTECH) is a technology-oriented university that is located in the South-Western region of Nigeria. It was named for Samuel Ladoke Akintola (a native of Ogbomoso who was premier of the Western Region of Nigeria in his lifetime). The university has two campuses: Ogbomoso (in Oyo state) and Osogbo (in…
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Ladyfish, Elops lacerta, called Igbun in Yoruba, is a ray-finned fish found in coastal waters from Mauritania to Namibia, sometimes entering freshwater, like in Cross River, Nigeria. This species is reported to spend one or two years in the Lekki and Lagos lagoons of Nigeria, afterwhich they move back to coastal waters where they attain…