Author: tope_litcaf
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King’s College was established in 1909 to provide for the youths of colonial Nigeria a higher education than that supplied by existing schools to prepare them for matriculation examination of the University of London. King’s College Lagos is located in 3, Catholic Mission in Lagos Island. The school was split into two campuses to cater…
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Mellor W.F. was the Wesleyan missionary whose leadership in Remo that started in 1921 was widely hailed. Revd. W. F. Mellor established a school at the bamboo church in 1928 built by manual labor at the back of his house. He was the father of the Boys Brigade Movement in Remo Division of Ijebu land…
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Òsùgbó was a civic association in nineteenth century Remo in present day Ogun state. In many towns it not only formulated and executed local law, but could also dethrone or execute an unpopular ruler. Òsùgbó’s basic membership was open to freeborn men and women from early adulthood. This association has long been understood as an equivalence…
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Moses Orimolade Tunolase was an itinerant faith healing preacher of the early 20th Century Nigeria whose career was characterized by many famed occurrences believed by the faithful to be miraculous. Orimolade was the founder of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church. Born 1885 circa in Ikare Akoko to pagan parents and at the time when Christianity…
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Okunnade Sijuade, the fiftieth Ooni of Ife, becoming one in 1980, was born 1 January, 1930 to the son of Adelekan Olubuse I who was the first Ooni to venture out of his domain, and who in 1903, ended a controversy among traditional rulers on the invitation of the Lagos colonial government. By the time…
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Palm Oil is red oil extracted from palm fruits. To produce palm oil, the palm tree, Elaeis guineensis is being climbed by dexterous men for the harvest of nuts which is then separated for the fibrous pulp that goes into large clay pots, to be boiled. The pulp is crushed in mortars, and then placed…
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Adegbenro Dauda Soroye was a politician in the Nigerian first republic and acting leader of the Action Group during the party crisis that preceded the military take-over of government in 1966. Born 1909 in Ago-Owu, he schooled at Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta and Abeokuta Grammar School. He served at the Nigerian Railway Corporation from…
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Palm Wine Drinkard is the first person narrative novel by Amos Tutuola, published in 1952 in London by Faber & Faber. The author, who sparsely showed any ambitions for his own craft, had penned the book within a few days in 1946. The novel recounted the mythological tale of a drunken man, who follows his…
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Parker International High School was established in 1994 by Ghanaian educationist, Mr. Parker Quartz, who had achieved renown the decade before due to his activities at the “Talk of the town” which then translated to the establishment of a primary school, the precursor to the Parker International High School. The Rockview Campus in Akure is…
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Accountancy as a professional and managerial function was imported into Nigeria just like any other white collar job by the British colonialists through their various commodities trading companies and supporting financial institutions. The Royal Niger Company and the Bank of British West Africa (now First Bank Plc) were at the forefront of introducing and developing…