Category: People
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Abidoye Babalola; University Administrator and Student Union activist of the 1960s. Under Abidoye Babalola’s leadership, students of the University College Ibadan escalated the mild but historically notable Marjorie Michelmore affair[1]. The proposed… read more
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Abdullahi Bolaji; Member of cabinet under President Jonathan. Bolaji was among the youngest, first holding the portfolio for Youth Development before taking over at the Sports ministry. He was born in 1969… read more
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Itsekiri is a distinct Yoruba sub-group in southern Nigeria, numbering just over 30,000 in 1952. Due to the position of their homeland- western area of the Niger Delta and the estuary of… read more
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Akoko people occupy the hilliest and most rugged part of Yorubaland, a phenomenon which historian, S.A. Akintoye posits, is an explanation for the great cultural diversity found among the group. The people’s… read more
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Ekiti people are subgroup of the Yoruba, historically occupying the Ekiti country, which was made up of 16 kingdoms- Otun, Ikole, Ado, Oye, Ijero, Ido, Ikere, Ise, Emure, Effon, Okemesi (traditionally Imesi-Igodo),… read more
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Asara is traditionally known as Oduduwa’s appointed priest in Mecca who extended the worship of multiple gods to the disdain of Moslems, who were at the time, subdued. Asara’s son, Braima, who… read more
