Abeokuta

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22 Interesting Facts you did not know about Abeokuta

August 17, 2019November 27, 2019 Ayomide Akinbode 0 Comments Abeokuta, Abeokuta Grammar School, Olumo Rock

Abeokuta was a sovereign nation for 20 years and 11 months before the British amalgamated her with the rest of

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People & Places 

Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti: Teacher, Nation-Builder, Clergyman

August 6, 2019August 6, 2019 Ayomide Akinbode 0 Comments Abeokuta, Alvan Ikoku, Egbaland, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Lagos, Nigeria Union of Teachers, Wole Soyinka

The Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a bastion of excellent character and success, was born to an Egba family in Abeokuta on

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People & Places 

Samuel Adegboyega: Pioneer of Apostolic Pentecostalism in Nigeria

May 5, 2019May 5, 2019 Ayomide Akinbode 0 Comments Abeokuta, Ayomide Akinbode, Lagos, Pentecostalism in Nigeria, Samuel Adegboyega, The Apostolic Church

Samuel Gbadebo Adegboyega was born on the first day of April in 1896 at Adeyori Village into aristocracy in a

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National History 

The Day the ‘White Man’ entered Abeokuta

January 6, 2019January 6, 2019 Ayomide Akinbode 0 Comments Abeokuta, Andrew Desalu Wilhelm, Badagry, Egba, Henry Townsend, Ibadan, Lagos, Olumo Rock, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Sierra Leone, Sodeke, Thomas Birch Freeman

The Egba people were peaceful forest dwelling members of the Yoruba nation of whom nothing was known until their 18th

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National History 

Ìwé Ìròhìn: Nigeria’s First Newspaper

November 28, 2018December 3, 2018 Ayomide Akinbode 0 Comments Abeokuta, Anglican, Church Missionary Society, Egbaland, Henry Townsend, Iwe Irohin, Nigeria's First, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Yoruba

Ìwé Ìròhìn fún àwọn ará Ẹgbá àti Yorùbá was a Yoruba and English language newspaper that ran for eight years

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National History 

How UNILAG’s VC, Saburi Biobaku was nearly killed in 1965

November 21, 2018November 28, 2019 Ayomide Akinbode 0 Comments Abeokuta, Action Group, Eni Njoku, Kayode Adams, Kenneth Dike, Lagos, Ogun, Saburi Biobaku, UNILAG

As a result of the NPC/NCNC alliance with the AG in opposition, the Federal Government of the First Republic (1957-1966)

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How Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti ‘sacked’ the Alake of Egbaland in 1949

November 18, 2018October 26, 2019 Ayomide Akinbode 0 Comments Abeokuta, Abeokuta Women's Union, Alake, Egba, First woman in Nigeria to drive a car, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Lioness of Lisabi, Lord Frederick Lugard, Sole Native Authority

On January 3, 1949, Oba Samuel Ladapo Ademola (1872–1962 ) the 7th Alake of Egbaland (1920–1962), abdicated the throne due

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