Category: Religion
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Jamat-at-ul Islamiyya is an Islamic society founded by L.B. Agusto in 1924. Agusto had started this organization, now one of the most influential in southwest Nigeria, upon his realization that the Islam… read more
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Ansar-Ud-Deen Comprehensive College Otta was established September 19, 1946 in Ota. The Ota school, like the Ansar-Ud-Deen in Isolo and Surulere, is a Muslim secondary school for boys and girls. Ansar-Ud-Deen Ota,… read more
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Ansar-Ud-Deen in southwest Nigeria is one of the oldest, and the most famous Islamic associations. The society was founded in 1923 to promote western education without compromising the cause of the Islamic religion.… read more
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Ansar-Uud-Deen Grammar School Surulere, 73/74 Randle Avenue Surulere, Lagos, was founded in 1958 in Obele-Oniwala. The Ansar-Ud-Deen Grammar school had suffered serious difficulties even in teaching what appears to be one of… read more
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Alli Balogun was a Lagos politician and merchant in the 19th Century born in 1830 as Alli Makanjuola. Like his father, he was a slave dealer but he assumed a legal trade… read more
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Ajisafe Kayode Ajayi was an historian and poet born in 1875 as Emmanuel Olympus Moore. The patriotic zeal and cultural renaissance in him prompted the change of his name to a fully… read more
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Ahmadiyya is an Islamic group headquartered in India, founded by Mirza Ghullam Ahmad with a distinct Islamic ideology which varies considerably with orthodox teachings. Adherents believe Ahmadiyya had a mandate to divest… read more
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Inagural Sermon is term used for sermon on 21 December 1902 by Mojola Agbebi, the poet and Baptist leader, in which his belief in Ethiopianism was outlined. The sermon was delivered at… read more
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Timothy Obadare Television Evangelist and convener of Koseunti (God who never fails), a monthly revival program that draws many hundred spiritual tourists to Akure town. Timothy Obadare was born 1930 in Ilesa to… read more
