Author: tope_litcaf

  • Birch Freeman High School

    Birch Freeman High School, located in 1. Akobi Cresent, Surulere Lagos, is a boys secondary school by the Methodist Mission, established in 1958 in affiliation with the Federal Ministry of Education. Admission into Birch Freeman is through the state education board examination. The school, like so many secondary school of its class declined over the…

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  • Wizkid

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    Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, the Afro Hip hop singer called Wizkid or Wizzy was born 16 July 1990 in Lagos into a large family of three wives and six children. Being the last and only boy, his father frowned at music, but his journey into music started early on, when he, a church choir boy, led…

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  • Bankole Wellignton

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    is a Nigerian R&B artist born 27 March, 1981 to migrant parents in United States who returned to Nigeria in 1986. After secondary education in Nigeria, he moved back to the United States on a college scholarship, where he earned a degree in Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His music career started with a…

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  • Jayin

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    Jayin was the Alaafin who succeeded ‘Karan the cruel’. Jayin’s petty lifestyle which appeared to be dedicated much to pleasure caused the nation to look up to his kind and generous son, Olusi for hope of the glory they wished for their empire. Olusi however, fell to the kind of life built around him, and…

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  • Ayibi

    Ayibi emerged as Alaafin after the rule of an interim government headed by Basorun Iba Biri. He was the grandson of the immediate past Alaafin, Jayin, and son of the popular Prince, Olusi who died in the hands of his father in a rush of anger. Ayibi was too young at the time of Jayin’s…

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  • Awosika Ibukun

    Awosika Ibukun is an Entrepreneur and Christian social activist, born in Ibadan on 24 December 1962 to mixed Nigerian and Cameroonian parentage. Awosika’s secondary education was at Methodist Girls High School, Yaba where she stood out as the best student. She studied Chemistry at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University). Awosika’s interest in…

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  • Awoniboju

    Awoniboju, also known as Oluboye was one of the Alaafin of Oyo who reigned during the tyranny of Basorun Gaha. Surprising it will seem, that the Alaafin, given the antecedents of his predecessors, could be cowed by a warlord who was supposed to be inferior, but the political condition of his time made it possible,…

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  • Labisi

    Labisi 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. The prince of Oyo who was to assume the seat of Alaafin when the notorious Basorun Gaha rose to power. Gaha at…

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  • Avi-Cenna International School

    Avi-Cenna International School, is located in 6 Harold Shodipo Crescent,Behind Lagos Country Club GRA Ikeja,Lagos. The school was named after the so called “Prince of physicians”, Avi-Cena, who lived in the 9th Century AD. The school was established in 1989 by a Jordanian couple as a co-educational British curriculum secondary school. Avi-Cenna International is one…

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  • Augustus Otonba-Payne

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    Augustus Otonba-Payne was a key figure in Lagos Colony during the reign of Queen Victoria of England. Otonba Payne was born 1839 in Sierra Leone. His father was captured from Ijebu Ode during one of the raids in which individuals were sold to slavery, but was soon rescued by the British anti-slavery squadron. Payne was educated…

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