Tag: Dada Adeshigbin


  • 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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  • Adeoye Deniga was a journalist and editor of Eko Akete popularly called “The Professor” on account of his numerous literary productions, the first of which was in 1917. Three years later, he was selected as a delegate from Lagos to the inaugural meeting of the British West Africa congress in Accra. Adeoye was born in Lagos as…

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