Author: tope_litcaf
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Razak Okoya is an Industrialist, and famous manufacturer of household utensils. From apprentiship he rose to become a billionaire. Born in 1940, Okoya did not pursue formal education beyond the elementary which he acquired at Ansar-un-deen School, Oke Popo, Lagos. He chose business over white collar jobs when he observed in his impressionable years, the…
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Red-fronted gazelle, Eudorcas rufifrons takes its name from its reddish forehead that contrasts with paler eye markings. Coat is red-fawn and the underside and rump is white. Head and body length reaches 110 cm., shoulder height, 70 cm. It has an average adult weight of 30 kg. This Gazelle, scarcely found in the northernmost end of…
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Red river Hog, Potamochoerus porcus, called Túùkú in Yoruba, varies in physical characteristics across its range, especially with regard to coloration. West-African bush pigs are predominantly reddish with a white dorsal stripe. The shaggy, foxy red coat has contrasting black and white markings on the head, including a white eye ring. Fur is short except…
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This 7 August, 1983 The Guardian article by Fred Ohwawha desribes how what is now, in Cable Network New’s account, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world, operated in the second year of Pastor E.A. Adeboye‘s leadership. THE REDEEMED CAMP The land which the church purchased from Ogunsolu family of Abeokuta was virtually…
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Regency is the system where an institution is conferred with the duty of governing a kingdom or country during a monarch’s childhood, illness or absence. Following an Oba’s demise, the politics, complexities and intrigues of the process of selecting another very often tax the wisdom and maturity of even seasoned kingmakers who have had previous…
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Ajiboyede was the last Alaafin to be buried at Oyo Igoho, the city Eguguoju intended as capital of the Oyo Empire. He initiated preparations for the return to the old capital. Ajiboyede was successful as king but he became increasingly unpopular towards the end of his long reign. It was during his rule that the…
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Paganism in different world societies, has been a reserved term for unsanctioned religious practices, used for undeveloped tribal forms of spiritual devotion. The religion of the Yoruba before the advent of Europeans was animistic although the animism curiously features many monotheistic elements, such as the belief in one Supreme Being, Olodumare, who is above all other…
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Islam is an Abrahamic faith with strong emphasis on monotheism, deriving its tenets from the Quran, regarded by the world’s 1.57 billion adherents as the verbatim word of Allah, as revealed to Prophet Muhammad, held almost universally in the religion as the last prophet of God. Islam was introduced to the region that will later be…
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Remi Babalola is a banker and politician from Ibadan. Remi was born in 1964 into a polygamous family with little means, where education wasn’t much of a priority. His value for education apparently developed from his mother’s drive in funding even her female children’s education up till the tertiary level. Remi studied at the Lagos…
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Remi Lagos, real name, Oluremi Dorcas Oshokale was a fashion designer, born 1961 to actress mother and a urbane father with whom she enjoyed frequent Sunday visits to the beach as a child. Her secondary education at Bariga Girls Secondary Grammar was followed by an A’ levels course at Bexhill on Sea school, in the UK…