Category: History – Political
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Adekunle Ajasin was a politician, who as follower of Obafemi Awolowo had the distinction of being architect of the free education which transformed the old Western region. Ajasin was also governor of Ondo State from 1979 to 1983. In 1962 he had become the President of Egbe Omo Oduduwa and with the passing of Chief…
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Old Secretariat served as the Government secretariat with office for the colonial secretary and a large number of ministers. Conceptualization of the Old secretariat building, designed and built by the public work department (PWD) of the colonial government, was precipitated by the 1906 declaration of Lagos as the seat of Southern Nigeria. It was built…
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Edun Adegboyega was the secretary of the Egba United Government from 1902 to 1918. He was born in June 1860 as Jacob Henryson Samuel, but changed his name by assuming his ancestral name in 1904. Edun was educated in Richmond College, England and the University of London. As an ordained minister in the Methodist Church…
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Abipa was the Alaafin who finally moved the capital of Oyo Empire from the Savannah called Oyo Igoho to its former location. Abipa had done this in keeping faith with his father, Ajiboyede, who initiated the plan. The story is told of how the nobles, and some influential subjects who were born in Oyo Igoho,…
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Ijemo Massacre was an incidence in Abeokuta in 1914, that led to the abrogation of the Treaty of 1893 in which the independence of the Egba kingdom had been asserted. This widely condemned killing of some 40 unarmed men, women and children at Ijemo was the subject of serious discussions in the West African papers,…
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The Egba United Government, under M’Callum constitution, between 1898 and 1914; was an independent government encompassing the four sessions of Egba people of Abeokuta. The head town and villages is divided into four sessions, and each section into townships, each township representing one of the hamlets that existed as separate unit before the scattering of the Egba…
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The Egbas were peaceful forest dwelling members of the Yoruba nation of whom nothing was known until their 1775 uprising against the central authority of the Oyo Empire. The independence of this tribe was followed by series of wars, which appeared in the end to be a catalyst for the opening of an enlightenment era.…
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Ademola Ladapo was the Alake of Egba from 1920 to 1962. Ademola returned from a reclusive life at the town of Isara to accede to the throne of Alake after the death of Gbadebo I who had been his mentor. Since the nineteenth century, he had been a part of Abeokuta’s government, serving as an…
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People’s Union, often taken as Nigeria’s first political party was a pressure group formed in 1908 during the Water Rate agitation in Ilupesi by John Randle and Orisadipe Obasa who were physicians, with white cap chiefs Erelu and Asogbon. Other key members were Kitoyi Ajasa, Akinwande Savage, Adeyemo Alakija, and others. The People’s Union was…