Author: tope_litcaf
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Religion, as defined by University of Ibadan’s Michael Nabofa, is man’s effort that is aimed at satisfying certain emotional, spiritual, moral, and material needs by establishing and maintaining cordial relations between himself and the super sensible world and between himself and his fellow men. According to the Pew Research Center, religiously affiliated adults and children…
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Orisadipe Obasa, a pioneer Nigerian physician, one of the last of the eight who qualified as medic in the late 19th century was born in Sierra Leone into a privileged royal family of Ikole-Ekiti and Ikija, Abeokuta on January 1863. In 1878, Obasa joined the Wesleyan Boys High Schol in Lagos where he showed good…
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Secularism is the belief that state, morals, education and other elements of national existence must be areligious. Aligned with this principle is humanism; the belief that human reason is the highest resource, and that morals are man-made. Originally recommended for Nigeria by the founding British Governor General, the Lord Lugard, secular humanism never became a conventional…
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Seriki compound is in the long Marina street, Badagry. The original owner (Chief seriki) was a slave dealer. Surrounding his compounds are rooms with small high-level windows ventilated with iron bars. These rooms are where the slaves were kept and the small windows are meant for ventilation foe the slaves who were ready for shipment.…
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Serval is an African cat of the wild, belonging to the genus Leptailurus and species serval. The serval have legs that are relatively long for its small body and ability, in spite of its slender build, to prey on larger hoofed mammals. It is called Ìjàkùmò in the Yoruba language. The serval, is like most…
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Dapo Oyebanji is the multiple award winning Nigerian entertainer whose Oliver Twist dance song topped African and UK charts between 2010 and 2011. Dapo Oyebanji, stage name D’banj, was born 1980 in Zaria where his father served as a military officer. Oyebanji was after his secondary school education at a Naval school in Ogun state…
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Materialism is a metaphysical view that a variety of existing things can be explained in terms of substance. The views of Ola Fajemirokun, newspaper editor and president of a New Age movement of the 1930s, as well as those of a few correspondents indicate that the philosophies of materialism circulated in the occult in colonial…
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Ebun House is a Lagos Brazilian styled building representing the ultimate in Baroque style. Ebun House, situated at Odunfa Street was built in 1913 by late Mr. A.W.U. Thomas, a customs clerk, a Registrar in the Law Court, and finally an auctioneer, a following in which he prospered. Ebun House located at 85 Odunfa Street,…
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Sango; the Yoruba god of thunder and lightning, and the fiendish Alaafin of Old Oyo, the era of whom the popular Yoruba chant, Kabiyesi, meaning “He who is answerable to no one,” is probably originated. The practicability of the Kabiyesi chant was ironically put to test a few times in Shango’s reign, but not without…