Tag: Remo
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Mellor W.F. was the Wesleyan missionary whose leadership in Remo that started in 1921 was widely hailed. Revd. W. F. Mellor established a school at the bamboo church in 1928 built by manual labor at the back of his house. He was the father of the Boys Brigade Movement in Remo Division of Ijebu land…
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Òsùgbó was a civic association in nineteenth century Remo in present day Ogun state. In many towns it not only formulated and executed local law, but could also dethrone or execute an unpopular ruler. Òsùgbó’s basic membership was open to freeborn men and women from early adulthood. This association has long been understood as an equivalence…
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Remo is a geographical and cultural division in Ogun state situated between Lagos and Ibadan. The Remo towns, traditionally thirty-three, were part of the Ijebu kingdom with capital in Ijebu-Ode where control over external affairs of the entire kingdom lay. The identity that they shared had been reinforced when they coalesced during the nineteenth century…