Category: Social
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Lagos Weekly Record was a newspaper started in 1890 by John Payne Jackson, published in Lagos every Saturday with an annual subscription of eighteen shillings. The paper survived its early years in… read more
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John Payne Jackson was one of the most colourful personalities in the Nigerian press, a journalist and philosopher, born on 25 March 1848 in Cape Palmas. He started the commercially successful Lagos… read more
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Thomas Horatio Jackson was the co-founder of the Nigerian National Democratic Party with Herbert Macaulay and one of the most colourful personalities in the history of the Nigerian press. Born in 1879, Horatio… read more
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Bible is the Christian Holy book, containing together with the canonical collection of Jewish texts, the good news of the gospel of Christ and of the hope of the saints. The Bible… read more
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Thomas King was an indigenous missionary and collaborator in the translation of catechisms and the Bible into Nigerian languages. King was kidnapped as a child in an Egba homestead in 1825 but… read more
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Medicine men in ancient Egba society, took Osanyin as their deity and holders of the title bestowed in its cult formed a close association, like they do in Egypt, where advanced practice of… read more
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Wale Babalakin is the entrepreneur son of a former Supreme Court Judge form Gbongan in Osun State, Bolarinwa Babalakin. Although Wale Babalakin studied law like his father, even acquiring the highest qualification… read more
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Water House is a Lagos historical building located in 10, Kukawa Street. The name “Water House” originated from the sale of drinking water to the inhabitants of that area by Mr. Da… read more
