Category: Government
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Ibadan Grammar School is a public secondary school founded in 1913 as a Christian school, the oldest of the 1,000 in Oyo state. With a long and very proud history, Ibadan Grammar School had moved to its present site, Molete, in 1951. Some nine years before then, the school had excised its elementary section to…
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Day Waterman College is a co-educational boarding school near Abeokuta. School was founded by Tayo Aderinokun, who was also one of the co-founders of Guaranty Trust Bank. The school has a FIFA sized football pitch, basketball courts, Golf practice green and other awe inspiring sports facilities. The school Library, though surprisingly not as ostentatious, is…
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Tayo Aderinokun was a financial expert and co-founder of Guaranty Trust Bank, one of the most profitable corporate institutions in Nigeria. Born 8 May 1955, Tayo Aderinokun studied Business Administration at the University of Lagos and took an MBA degree with special concentration on International Business from the Graduate School of Management, University of California,…
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Entrepreneurship is defined in an economics library portal as the process of discovering new ways of combining resources. The entrepreneur’s success may therefore be determined by the market value of these combinations. In one of the early uses of this term, a discrepancy is being made from investor by qualifying the entrepreneur as one who…
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Tayo Oviosu is an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Paga, a consumer-finance company. Born and raised with a middle-class upbringing in Lagos. Tayo bagged a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California and a Master’s in Business Administration from Stanford University. After working at a couple of start-up companies…
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Imperialism, also called colonialism, refers to the subjugation of a territory under another, especially through military force, hence the political and economic dependence of the subject. Colonialism originally refers to the transfer of a population from one territory to another without a shift in allegiance. As it is in the case of many subject nations…
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Commerce is defined in the Cambridge dictionary as the activities involved in buying and selling things. These activities, according to the BusinessDictionary.com, apart from occurring on a large scale, usually involves transportation from place to place, and the “things” transacted may also include services. Commerce after Slave Trade Money-making activities in the areas now…
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C.M.S. Grammar School is Nigeria’s first secondary school, established in June 1859 by Church Missionary Society, a Christian organization dedicated to the promotion of the faith. Herbert Macaulay’s father, Thomas Babington, as founder, had served as the school’s first principal. Primary schools in Lagos at this time were not up to ten. Expectedly, it was…
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Nathaniel King was the first Nigerian to practice modern medicine in his own country. Nathaniel was born 14 July 1847 in Freetown to a Yoruba Clergyman, Rev.Thomas King, who together with Ajayi Crowther, translated several catechisms and portions of the Bible into Nigerian dialects. Nathaniel King returned with his missionary father to Abeokuta where he…