Category: Social
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Balogun Kuku was the De facto leader of Ijebu Muslims during the military subjugation of Ijebu by the British in the early 20th Century. His conversion to Islam in 1902 had been a major lost to Christian missionaries, so significant that the news was reported in a British mission magazine. Through his influence, the now…
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Hezekiah Oladapo Davies was a leading Nigerian nationalist, born in Lagos on 5 April 1905 to “Spiritual Moses”, who was one of the founders of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church. Hezekiah was educated in Wesley School, Olowogbowo, Methodist Boys High School and Kings’ College. He studied Economics under the tutelage of Harold Laski, the British…
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Olagoke Olabisi is the Engineering professor who invented several processes for which not less than eight patents were granted. Olagoke was born in Osogbo and his education at the Government College Ibadan which ended in distinction fetched him a 4-year full scholarship to study Chemical Engineering at Purdue University from where he graduated in 1969.…
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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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Olumo, meaning, “the lord ends our travail”, is rock in the city of Abeokuta so named because of its usefulness as military fortress to Egba people from 1832 to 1862. The rock, standing at a thousand feet above sea level, is the highest among the rocks that bisect Abeokuta into two. This natural landmark, adopted…
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Olurogbo, also known as Ela, was the son of Moremi, an early heroine of the Yoruba nation, possibly queen of the second Alafin, Oranyan. This, if true, will make Olurogbo a Prince. The more important story about Olurogbo, however was the nature of his departure. Moremi, believing her success in uncovering the tricks of the…
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Daily Times is the first substantive Nigerian daily newspaper, founded by a member of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce, Richard Braw, with a group of other European businessmen and Adeyemo Alakija. The first publication of this paper came out in June 1, 1926. Alakija co-founded the Daily Times newspaper in 1926, the tabloid which will…
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Olusegun Osoba, is the journalist and politician who twice became the governor of Ogun state. Osoba was born in 1941 and educated at Methodist Boys’ High School, Lagos between 1956 and 1960. Osoba obtained a diploma on journalism from the University of Lagos in 1965 and also did journalism courses at Indiana University Bloomington. In his…
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This account for the beginning of Joseph Ayo Babalola’s Church in 1930, I shall hereby endeavour to report this account word for word to a good extent, as mere summary may not reveal the truth. This file began with a letter from a Wesleyan Methodist Reverend, Rev. Edward Nightingale to the Administrator of the Wesleyan…