Alakija Folorunsho is a business magnate and philanthropist. Folorunsho was born into a wealthy, polygamous family at Ikorodu in 1951. At the age of seven, she was sent, together with her younger sister, to a private school in Wales, returning to Nigeria just four years later to attend Muslim High School in Sagamu. On her…
Gbadebo I, original name, Tegumada Ademola was the sixth Alake of Egba land who ruled from 1892 to 1920. Alake Gbadebo was born in 1854. His father, Okukenu, was the first Alake after the Egba migration to Abeokuta. Gbadebo’s sovereignty was interrupted in 1914 with the termination of the Egba Unity Government, which educated elites…
Akinwuntan Abiodun is the Nigerian physical therapist whose doctoral study led to the first-ever use of a high fidelity and interactive driving simulator to train stroke patients to drive again, anywhere in the world. As a student at the University of Lagos, Biodun was gregarious and showed interest in business rather than academics. However, he…
Akintunde Ojo was the third year student of the Faculty of Environmental Design of the University of Lagos shot dead in April 1978 by the police during a protest against the increment of in feeding and lodging school fee for Nigerian universities. The increment, occasioned by the belt-tightening policy of the federal government following the reversal…
Akede Eko was the colonial times weekly newspaper founded in 1928 by Isaac B. Thomas. Akede Eko, published in Yoruba and English, started with 600 copies per week but started to enjoy its own share of thousands within a few months. The papers, within the first year enjoyed good circulation in Northern Nigeria and is…
Luba Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Ijebu Ode founded by Alhaji Olanrewau Ambaliu Sanni in June, 1972, after years of managing the elementary school section. The school had unusually commenced with a large number, about 150, at inception, a third of which eventually made it to the final class. Authority considers this a…