Category: Social
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Dayo Adeneye is the music producer and entertainment entrepreneur who founded the record label, Kennis Music with Kenny Ogungbe in 2000. Dayo Adeneye had his secondary education at the Federal School of Arts and Science in Victoria Island, Lagos. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Southern University, Illinois, and a Master’s…
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Kenny Ogungbe is a media entrepreneur whose foray into the music industry, together with friend, Dayo Adeneye, vivified the Nigerian urban culture from the early 2000s. Kenny had his secondary education at Federal School of Arts and Science at Ogoja in Cross River State. He studied Accounting at the Southern University, New Orleans and a…
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Jamat-at-ul Islamiyya is an Islamic society founded by L.B. Agusto in 1924. Agusto had started this organization, now one of the most influential in southwest Nigeria, upon his realization that the Islam he belonged to held contrary believes to what he deemed as an important tenet of Ahmadiyya movement. Jamat-at-ul Islamiyya, simply called Islamic Society…
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Ansar-Ud-Deen Comprehensive College Otta was established September 19, 1946 in Ota. The Ota school, like the Ansar-Ud-Deen in Isolo and Surulere, is a Muslim secondary school for boys and girls. Ansar-Ud-Deen Ota, which holds fond memories in the minds of many successful men and women today, is not in its best physical state as facilities…
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Ansar-Ud-Deen in southwest Nigeria is one of the oldest, and the most famous Islamic associations. The society was founded in 1923 to promote western education without compromising the cause of the Islamic religion. Ansar-ud-Deen had been created in reaction to the pervading inequality in the social status of local Muslims and Christians due to the limited…
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Ansar-Uud-Deen Grammar School Surulere, 73/74 Randle Avenue Surulere, Lagos, was founded in 1958 in Obele-Oniwala. The Ansar-Ud-Deen Grammar school had suffered serious difficulties even in teaching what appears to be one of its main focus; the Arabic language. With some foreign aids such as those of the United States Information Service and the Ranfurly Library…
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Alli Balogun was a Lagos politician and merchant in the 19th Century born in 1830 as Alli Makanjuola. Like his father, he was a slave dealer but he assumed a legal trade as supplier of local needs to European merchants upon the abolition of slavery in 1852. In his thirtieth year he had become rich…
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Akinwuntan Abiodun is the Nigerian physical therapist whose doctoral study led to the first-ever use of a high fidelity and interactive driving simulator to train stroke patients to drive again, anywhere in the world. As a student at the University of Lagos, Biodun was gregarious and showed interest in business rather than academics. However, he…