Tag: Adeyemo Alakija
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Adeyemo Alakija was born Placido Assumpcao in 1884. He changed his name to the original family name, Alakija in the year he was called to Bar in the London Inner Temple, 1913. This was possible because his family knew of their origin in Abeokuta. His father was one of the Yoruba Brazilian slaves who returned…
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Adenuga Folagbade was born in 1892 and became Awujale of Ijebu when on Ademolu’s death in 1925, the Tunwase family which he belonged reluctantly produced him, after their preferred candidate, who was Adenuga’s elder brother, was ruled illegible due to technical reasons of not being an abidagba (born during parent’s reign), his mother being a…
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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…