Category: Religion
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Odubanjo D.O. was a clergy and one of the pioneers of Aladura movement branch of Christianity in Nigeria. Odubanjo was the first pastor of The Apostolic Church in Nigeria and one with whose 1931 letter to Missionary Herald in Great Britain, the news of the young faith healer, Ayo Babalola, first travelled abroad. Born 1881…
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The Great Revival was the phenomenon in the early 20th Century Western Nigeria, of Pentecostal awakening that led to the creation of the Aladura arm of Christianity. Many scholars limit these events to the activities of Ayo Babalola in 1930, but more encompassing narrative have risen from works of persons such as Ogunrinade and Adewale…
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Samuel Ajayi Crowther was a man from a simple West African village who as a lad, was rescued by the British Man-O-War to become in due course, the first African Bishop of modern times, and scholar, honoured by the Oxford University for his translation work. Ten times in seventy years he went to England. He…
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Thomas Birch Freeman was a Methodist minister and first preacher of the Christian gospel in Nigeria. Freeman was a mulatoo of black and English parentage, born in 1809 in Hampshire, England. He arrived in West Africa in 1838, a year after he was accepted as a Methodist missionary. At this time, some Saros who had…
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Christ Church Cathedral is an Anglican Church building, located at the interaction of Marina Street and Odunlami Street in Lagos Island. It dominates a very busy vehicle node (as opposed to a town square) and it overlooks a bustling harbor. Christ Church cathedral was designed and Began Benjamin, a Yoruba Sierra Leonean returnee, started the…
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Bible is the Christian Holy book, containing together with the canonical collection of Jewish texts, the good news of the gospel of Christ and of the hope of the saints. The Bible was first translated into the Yoruba language in 1862. Until the 1887 Education ordinance of the Lagos colony, education was the exclusive concern…