Category: Social
-
Epetedo is an historical area in Lagos Island where some of the followers of the deposed and exiled Oba of Lagos, Kosoko, settled in the 1860s. Many of the families living in this area are ones who fled Lagos when the British attacked the city during the time of king Akitoye and went to Epe.…
-
Oshodi Court, historical building and ancient home of the 19th Century warlord, Landuji Oshodi is located on Oshodi street on the Epetedo area on north Lagos Island, it is one of the finest traditional family compounds. Some members of the family fled the city with Kosoko when the British attacked during the reign of Kosoko but…
-
Mellor W.F. was the Wesleyan missionary whose leadership in Remo that started in 1921 was widely hailed. Revd. W. F. Mellor established a school at the bamboo church in 1928 built by manual labor at the back of his house. He was the father of the Boys Brigade Movement in Remo Division of Ijebu land…
-
Moses Orimolade Tunolase was an itinerant faith healing preacher of the early 20th Century Nigeria whose career was characterized by many famed occurrences believed by the faithful to be miraculous. Orimolade was the founder of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church. Born 1885 circa in Ikare Akoko to pagan parents and at the time when Christianity…
-
Iwe Irohin was the bilingual newspaper published by the Church Missionary Society in Abeokuta from 1859 to 1867. The principal contents of the paper were marriage announcements, church news, post office notices, advertisements, trade reports, cotton statistics and general news. During the years of its existence, it had remarkable impact on the local administration of…
-
Postnatal (puerperal, postpartum) psychiatric disorders are mental conditions that arise in women within the first 42 days after childbirth. Based on the degree of severity, these conditions have been grouped into three; postnatal blues, postnatal depression, and postnatal psychosis, although they overlap to some extent. Blues Majority of women experience this with the symptoms…
-
RADIOPHONE CURIOSITY By Adekambi, Editor, Eko Akete, 2 February, 1924 Television another possible scientific invention Seeing Wimbeley from Lagos!!! To make a telephone call upon a friend or a businessman at Agege and indulge in a lively conversation in the ordinary way is wonderful enough. To receive a cable-gram sent from London, Lisbon, or New York…
-
Railway Compound in Ebutte-Meta, Lagos is the original headquarters of Nigerian Railways, with residences for senior staff members. Since the foundation of the Nigerian railways in 1893 the building activity of this company has been expanded over the whole Nigeria, but it started in the former capital, Lagos. Some of the first railway stations still…
-
This 7 August, 1983 The Guardian article by Fred Ohwawha desribes how what is now, in Cable Network New’s account, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world, operated in the second year of Pastor E.A. Adeboye‘s leadership. THE REDEEMED CAMP The land which the church purchased from Ogunsolu family of Abeokuta was virtually…