Author: tope_litcaf
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Nutrition, according to G.O. Obigbesan of the University of Ibadan, the supply and absorption of chemical compounds needed for growth and metabolism. It has been stated that the quality of nutrition dictate individual longevity. The protein-calorie malnutrition is the most important forms of malnutrition in Nigeria, which manifests clinically as nutritional marasmus and kwashiorkor. Marasmus…
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Oba Koso is one of Duro Ladipo’s most important plays, also the best-known work in the repertory of Yoruba operatic tradition. It was with this play that Ladipo marked the first anniversary of the Oshogbo Mbari Mbayo Club. The play, published in Three plays by Duro Ladipo in 1964, was translated by Ulli Beier. Oba…
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Oba Moro is a play by Duro Ladipo, built on desire for continuity. “Let us abandon this place of refuge,” cried the Yoruba refugees in this play derived from Samuel Johnson’s History of the Yorubas, ‘let us build our glorious city, Oyo Ajaka.” The play, was first performed on 17 March 1962, on the occasion…
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Timothy Obadare Television Evangelist and convener of Koseunti (God who never fails), a monthly revival program that draws many hundred spiritual tourists to Akure town. Timothy Obadare was born 1930 in Ilesa to a family of clergies. He grew up in The Apostolic Church, where his father served as a pastor. Obadare lost his eyesight at…
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Coker Commission was set up on 16 June 1962 by the Nigerian Federal Government of Tafawa Balewa to investigate Western Region’s six statutory corporations since 1 October 1954. In that year, the crisis within the regional ruling party caused by attempts by dissenters and the federal government to undermine its stronghold in the Western region…
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Joseph Odumosu, founder of the Aborigines Society with strong base in Lagos, was born in 1863 to ‘Daddy Odubela’ of Ita Ntebo, Ijebu Ode. Odumosu acted as the leader of Ijebu Christians during the reign of Awujale Adeleke and Fusigboye Adeona, outrivaling both in in wealth, popularity, power, followership and respectability. Though sickly as a…
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Timothy Adeola Odutola was a politician and pre-independence member of the Nigerian aristocracy. Born in June 1902 to a Muslim father and a converted Christian mother. In his time Odutola was among the few kids whose parents embraced education on their behalf, and the young Odutola started with St. Saviour’s Primary School, then at Italupe.…