Tag: pioneer Chancellor of University of Sokoto
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Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III was the Alaafin of Oyo since 1970, born 1938 to the Alaafin Adeyemi II Adeniran who was forced out of the throne in 1954 for taking sides with the less popular party in the Western region, the NCNC. Beating ten other princes at a contest that began in 1968, Lamidi Adeyemi…