Author: tope_litcaf
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Isaac Ladipo Oluwole was born in 1892 to Bishop Isaac Oluwole. Ladipo is the first Nigerian Medical Officer of Health for the Lagos Colony, recognized as the father of public health in Nigeria. He enrolled as a medical student at the University of Glasgow in 1913 and graduated in 1918. Before entering the colonial civil…
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Adesimbo Aboki Tunwase, was the Awujale of Ijebu Ode from February 1886 to 1895 who occupied the Ijebu stool during the Imagbon War in which the kingdom was annexed by the British. Favoured by the warlord, Balogun Onafowokan, Tunwase had ascended the throne as Awujale when Fidipote fled to Epe after he was deposed. Tunwase…
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Adesida Ilesanmi is an Engineering professor with outstanding work in the field of Nanotechnology. Adesida was born 1949 in Ifon, Ondo State.He obtained his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently went on to develop a body of work in the processing of semiconductors and other materials…
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Abraham Adesanya was a political leader, honored in the line of Obafemi Awolwo and Adekunle Ajasin as Asiwaju of Yorubaland. Adesanya was born on 24 July 1922 in Ijebu Igbo to a popular traditional healer, Ezekiel. His secondary education was at Ijebu Igbo Grammar School. After working briefly as a tutor, he had travelled to…
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Awoism is the term coined for Obafemi Awolowo’s idea of progressive politics targeted at producing practical social progress. Awoism postulates that man is the sole dynamic in nature and that sound education is his birth right. The notion of innate racial intellectual superiority or natural advantage in mastery is rejected. According to Awolowo, “if you…
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Nazism was the German political system between 1933 and 1945 of extreme nationalism, propagated and supervised by totalitarian authority. In articulation of what would be Nazis tenet, Hitler had in his book, Mein Kampt, equated Africans with apes, effectively suggesting the possibility of their enslavement in the event of German victory in its aggression efforts…
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Thomas Adeoye Lambo was a Nigerian Psychiatrist who gained renown with his original approach to the treatment of the mentally ill. Born March 1923 in Abeokuta. Lambo went to Baptist Boys’ High School and graduated as a Medical Doctor from Birmingham, England, in 1948. He specialized in Psychiatry at London University before returning to Nigeria…
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Adeoye Deniga was a journalist and editor of Eko Akete popularly called “The Professor” on account of his numerous literary productions, the first of which was in 1917. Three years later, he was selected as a delegate from Lagos to the inaugural meeting of the British West Africa congress in Accra. Adeoye was born in Lagos as…
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Adeona Fusigboye, born in 1863, was crowned on 3 May, 1906 as the Awujale of Ijebu land. He was the son of Ademuyewo, the famous nineteenth century ruler whose pro-Ibadan stance in the Imagbon war was unpopular. Like his father, Adeona was a difficult man for the British to deal with, and he, with the…
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Nigeria Leaf-toed Gecko, Hemidactylus muriceu, is one of the several species of lizards in the family Gekkota, distinct from the Common Gecko, which exists in close range by the use of gapping and squeaking as part of its defensive behaviors. The Nigeria leaf-toed Gecko has narrow subcaudal scales. They feed on beetles, spiders, moths, flies,…