Category: Textile
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Dada Adeshigbin was a 19th Century townsman and one of the principal founders of the African Bethel Church. Dada Adeshigbin was born in Owu in 1865. Hardly anything is known of his early life except that he was educated at the Breadfruit School, Lagos and later he was apprenticed to a famous tailor of his…
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Humuani Alaga was the Ibadan player of the textile industry, born in 1907 to a trader mother with whom she went on several trading trips in the south-western parts of Nigeria, as a kid. Alaga became one of the first registered customers when foreign firms established branches in Ibadan in 1932. As a specialist in…
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Ade-Ojo Michael is an eminent businessman player of the Nigerian automobile industry. Born on June 14, 1938 at Ilara-Mokin, Ade Ojo had his secondary school education at Imade College, Owo under the headship of Adekunle Ajasin. After a short course in Agriculture, and brief experience at a government ministry, he went to the University of…
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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.…