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14/04/2022

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Did you know that?

1 Ojota
Ojota used to be a military settlement in the late 18th century and soldiers practised their shooting there. The area had several gun firing spots and became known as “Oju Ota” in Yoruba which means “Bullet spots”. It later metamorphosed into Ojota which it is called now.

2. Abule Egba
This area is on the outskirts of Lagos and got its name from the early settlers who were Egba people from Abeokuta. The area was first called “Abule awon egba” in Yoruba, which means “Village of Egba people”. It later became “Abule Egba”.

3. Apongbon
Apongbon is one of Lagos’ most popular markets, and it’s also quite close to the popular Oke-Arin market. It got its name from the then acting governor of the Lagos colony, William McCoskry, who had a Red Beard. The Yorubas who couldn’t pronounce the colonial governor’s name decided to describe him by his red beard and started calling him *“Oyinbo to pon ni agbon”* (Apon l'agbon) meaning a red-bearded man. It later became Apongbon.

4. Magodo
Magodo is now a posh area, but in the past, it used to be sacred land. The residents had a lot of taboos and one of them was to avoid using mortars and pestles, “Ma gun odo” which means “Don’t pound it”. It later became Magodo

5. Epetedo
Epe is named after the early settlers who were Epe traders. The area became dominated by the Epes and they still trade there until today.

6. Ebute-Metta
Ebute-Metta is one of the earliest harbour docks where British ships berthed at. It was a hub for trade and commerce in colonial times. Ebute-Metta is a fusion of the words “Ebute” which means the seaside in Yoruba, and “Metta” which means three. The three shores are Iddo, Otto and Oko baba.

7. Broad street
Broad street used to be one of the longest and widest streets in the city. It got its name from its broadness. However, Broad Street was later changed to Yakubu Gowon Street but later changed back to Broad street when Gowon was accused of participating the coup that led to the death of Murtala Ramat Mohammed.

8. Agidingbi
The British Naval forces invaded Lagos in 1885 under the pretext of stopping slavery and human sacrifice. The noise their canon made was really loud, and the sound was heard round the streets of Lagos Island. The people described the sound as “A gidi n gbinnn”. Which means a loud groundbreaking noise. The name Agidingbi was borne out of this.

9. Victoria Island
Victoria Island was also a major hub for commerce and British ships berthed there often. It’s named after Queen Victoria of England who was Queen from 1837-1901.

10. Ikeja
Ikeja, the capital of Lagos, is actually an abbreviation for “Ikorodu and Epe Joint Administration”, IKEJA. It was coined by the colonial masters for ease of administration.”
Coming shortly, the history of Yaba, Surulere, Okota, Mushin, Idimu, Alakuko, Ikorodu, Epe, Ajangbadi, Ojo, Ijeshatedo, Orile, Ijora, Apapa and Ojuelegba.
I hope you find this info useful.
By Bola Adewara(2019)

09/04/2022

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The best hospital and your pharmacy shop.

30/03/2022

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Bearer holding the 20ft train of Chief F.S. Okotie-Eboh, Minister of Labour and Welfare, as the Minister arrived with his wife at the House of Representatives.

Date:2/2/1956

Before his change of name, he was Chief Festus Samuel Edah.

In 1958, Okotie-Eboh insisted that Nigeria should issue her own currency and have her own Central Bank instead of epending on the then West African Currency Board, which was responsible for issuing currencies for the colonies. This was how the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) was established . Chief Okotie-Eboh, could therefore, be rightly described as the founding father of the CBN.

Okotie-Eboh was assassinated along with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa in the military coup of January 15, 1966, which terminated the Nigerian First Republic, and thus civilian rule

30/03/2022

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When a slave becomes a slave trader

Seriki Abass is one of the most prominent African slave traders.

He was a Nigerian slave trader in the 19th century who was first slave to a wealthy Dahomian slave trader, Abass of Dahomey, from whom he got the name "Abbas." Later, he was sold and taken to Brazil by another slave trader called Williams, from whom he got the name "Williams."

When Seriki returned to Lagos, he converted to Islam (that's how he became known as Seriki) and became a slave merchant. He maintained contact with his Brazilian master and shipped African men and women abroad as slaves.

His slave "warehouse" was in Badagry. The cell-like warehouse was where at least 40 slaves (men and women) were crammed before he shipped them to the Americas.

Seriki shipped slaves to the Americas for cash and kinds. Aside money, he got mirrors, bottles of alcoholic wine and umbrella as rewards. It's said that during his time, he traded 10 slaves for a bottle of wine, 40 slaves for an umbrella, and 100 slaves for one canon gun.

Seriki made a lifetime of wealth and curried social honor by selling Africans as slaves. He was so wealthy that the Muslim community elected him as their Seriki (Head).

1895 was the beginning of his maddening fame and social acceptance in Lagos and Ogun States.

In 1895 he was made the political ruler of Badagry. In 1896, he built the Badagry Central Mosque. In 1897 he also became Seriki Musulmi of the whole western Yorubaland. In 1898 he founded Egbe Killa. When the Badagry Council was established in 1902, Seriki became its president. In 1902 he founded Aiyetoro, a town in today's Ogun State, and he became its first ruler.

Seriki Abass died on 11 June 1919. He had 128 wives and 144 children.

Today his grandchildren have converted the cells, where he once bounded and stocked slaves, to livingrooms. His whole house is also now a museum in Badagry— called Brazilian Baracoon of Slaves.

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30/03/2022

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1966: ASSASSINATION OF ALHAJI (SIR) ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA

“Who’s there?” A voice queried from inside. However, Ifeajuna replied by kicking the doors open with his boots.

“You’re under arrest sir,” Ifeajuna said, pointing his gun at the Prime Minister, who looked startled. “Get up sir, we don’t have a lot of time.”

“Alright,” the Prime Minister replied gently, “allow me to dress up.”

He put on a white flowing robe with white trousers, a pair of slippers and his prayer beads. Without fear and a disciplined face, he trudged out of the room and the residence gently as Ifeajuna and his soldiers accompanied him with pointed guns.

When they reached the parked vehicles, Ezedigbo had arrested the Finance Minister, Chief Okotie-Eboh, and had tossed him like a bag of groundnuts into the back of the 3-Ton truck while the Prime Minister was assisted into the backseat of Ifeajuna’s luxurious car, a red Mercedes Benz, as the convoy drove off to the rendezvous.

Some few kilometers to their rendezvous, the Prime Minister became restless and was muttering to himself as he rattled his prayer beads. Okafor hinted Ifeajuna of the situation who quickly slammed the brakes and came out of the car.

“Are you alright sir?” Ifeajuna asked the Prime Minister as he opened the side door. “Or would you like some fresh air?”

To Tafawa-Balewa, it was a rhetorical question and the decision to answer or not rested on him. Without answering the Major, he gently alighted from the car and ambled towards the darkness as Ifeajuna watched anxiously, oblivious to what the Prime Minister was up to.

Then from a slow walk, to a pace and a sprint, the Prime Minister dashed for the darkness. Ifeajuna did not bother to pursue. Quickly, he grabbed his gun from the car, cocked it and aimed for the fleeing Prime Minister whose white outfit contrasted the darkness and conspicuously gave him away.

The “revolution” had failed and the Prime Minister had become a liability to their movement anyway. The Major shot sporadically at the fleeing figure sending the tranquility of the darkness to a bustle of gunfire like the crackle of burning dried leaves.

Tafawa-Balewa fell as Ifeajuna stared in horror at the darkness whether he got his target. The Golden Voice of Africa had been silenced.

Quickly, he moved towards the still body of the Prime Minister and after confirming he was dead, dragged him to a tree trunk and rested the body in a seating position with his clothing still intact.

Then he and Okafor brought out Largema’s co**se from the boot of the car and laid it down beside Tafawa-Balewa’s body. Having realised the coup had failed on their part, they sped, en route Abeokuta-Sagamu, towards Enugu in the East, which was nearly 450 kilometres away.

28/03/2022

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Moremi Ajasoro, Princess of the Yoruba..

(Yoruba: Mọ́remí Àjàsorò) was a figure of high significance in the history of the Yoruba peoples of West Africa. Born a princess, she was a courageous queen whose fame contributed to the victory of the Yoruba people over a neighbouring people.

Moremi was a member by marriage of the royal family of Oduduwa, the Yoruba's fabled founding father.

The Ayaba Moremi lived in the 12th century, hailed from Offa, and was married to Oranmiyan, the heir to the king of Ife and founding father of the Yoruba people, Oduduwa. Ile Ife was a kingdom that was said to have been at war with an adjoining tribe who were known to them as the Forest people. (Ìgbò in the Yoruba language, though the said tribe is believed by scholars to have had no relation to the contemporary Ìgbòs of modern Nigeria). Scores of Ife citizens were being enslaved by these people, and because of this they were generally regarded with disdain by the Yoruba city-states. Although the people of Ile-Ife were furious about these raids, they did not have the means to defend themselves. This is because the invaders were seen as spirits by the people of Ife, appearing as masquerades completely covered in raffia leaves.

Moremi was a very brave and beautiful woman who, in order to deal with the problem facing her people, pledged a great sacrifice to the Spirit of the river Esimirin so that she could discover the strength of her nation's enemies.

She is said to have been taken as a slave by the Igbo and, due to her beauty and Esimirin's help, married their ruler as his anointed queen. After familiarizing herself with the secrets of her new husband's army, she escaped to Ile-Ife and revealed this to the Yorubas, who were then able to subsequently defeat them in battle.

Following the war, she returned to her first husband, King Oramiyan of Ife (and later Oyo), who immediately had her re-instated as his queen. Moremi returned to the Esimirin River to fulfill her pledge. The river demanded she sacrificed her only son, Oluorogbo. The demand was inconceivable and Moremi pleaded with the god for a less terrible offering. But in the end, she kept her promise and paid the price. The offering of Oluorogbo to the river god grieved not only Moremi but the whole kingdom of Ife. The Yoruba people consoled Moremi by offering to be her eternal children a promise kept until today.

The Edi Festival is said to have then been started as a means of celebrating the sacrifice the princess made for the people of Yorubaland. Furthermore, a number of public places are named after her in contemporary Nigeria, such as the female residence halls at the University of Lagos and Obafemi Awolowo University.

In 2017, Oba Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ile Ife, Osun State, erected a statue of Moremi in his palace. The statue is the tallest in Nigeria, displacing the previous holder of that record (a statue in Owerri, the Imo State capital). It is also the fourth tallest in Africa.

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27/03/2022

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Chief Obafemi Awolowo's private car. The car toured the whole states of Nigeria in the year 1979 and 1983 during the presidential election campaigns.

27/03/2022

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FIRST NIGERIAN WOMAN TO BUY A CAR

Madam Efunroye Tinubu was the first Nigerian woman to buy a car; she was also the first Iyalode of the Egba land.

She was born around 1805 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, and was once a slave trader who traded with Europeans.

Madame Tinubu built a financial empire through the arms and salt trade. She married Adele, an exiled Oba of Lagos years after the death of her first husband. She gained economic and political power through marriage and was able to build a business empire through the trade of salt and to***co from Europe for slaves from Abeokuta.

In 1835, her husband Adele returned to his throne but died two years later making her a widow for the second time. She then helped install Adele’s son, Oluwole as the new king and married his military advisor.

After the accidental death of Oluwole, she helped install her brother–in–law on the throne and he rewarded her with stores in downtown Lagos. She was rumored to own over three hundred personal slaves.

After slavery was repudiated in 1845 by European nations and commercial crops the new items of commerce, she expanded her empire by controlling the major items of commerce.

Madam Tinubu was the major conduit in Lagos between European merchants and Traders. She fell from power after organizing a plot to remove the British consul, Benjamin Campbell from power after he railed against her secret slave trade with Europeans.

She was exiled from Lagos and returned to Abeokuta. Madam Tinubu was an economic powerhouse and an important figure in 19th century Nigeria and died in 1887.

26/03/2022

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26/03/2022

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Remember Tupac Shakur?

Beside him is Ayanna Jackson the lady who accused him of r**e.

Behind him is the Haitain who robbed and shot him at Quad studio.Next to him is his manager who set him up to get killed.

You are surrounded by your enemies 9 times out of 10.

Watch and pray….. May God continue to protect us from our friends for we can always take care of our 'known' enemies.

24/03/2022

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Thomas Fuller, an African sold into slavery in 1724 at the age of 14, was sometimes known as the “Virginia Calculator” for his extraordinary ability to solve complex math problems in his head. He was asked how many seconds there were in a year and a half, he answered in about two minutes, 47,304,000. Again he was asked how many seconds a man has lived who is 70 years, 17 days and 12 hours old, he answered in a minute and a half 2,210,500,800.

One of the men was working out the problems on paper, and informed Fuller that he was wrong, because the answer was much smaller. Fuller hastily replied, "'Top, massa, you forget de leap year." When the leap year was added in, the sums matched.

The African History

20/03/2022

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Once Fela Kuti was accosted by the revenue dept of lagos state to pay service charges for running a night club, The African Shrine.

Revenue Officer: "Baba, we have come to remind you that you are owing about 5 years arrears of
payment"

Fela: "Look my friend, dat church in front" pointing to Apostolic Church on Pepple Street that shared neighborhood with the Shrine- " have they paid?"

Revenue Officer: Haaa Baba, that is is a church naah"

Fela: Oh dat na church, so what do you call here?"

Revenue Officer: "African Shrine!

Fela: Look my friend can't you see that you're suffering from colomentality? The white man called his place of worship Church and you don't tax him and Fela called his own African Shrine and you are asking for tax! Are you and
your govt okay?"

Renenue Officer: "But Baba, you sell drink and smoke here and play music and collect gate fees naah!"

Fela: " You're a su egbe, the difference between African Shrine and the Church is that here I collect my offering and tithe at the gate. But those people are thieves. They ask you to come
in free of charge and later line you up to pay your gate fees which they call offering and tithe. If you still don't understand, take me to court and we go meet una there"

End Of Discussion!
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20/03/2022

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Before he became a soldier, Asoro was a sword-bearer to Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi (who reigned between 1888 and 1897). He was a symbol of strength, courage, and patriotism; qualities that earned him the coveted title of a General in
the Benin Army.

General Asoro is one remarkable historical figure the Benin Kingdom will not forget in a hurry. He was one of the most outstanding warriors who fought gallantly during the Benin-British war. He led other warriors in resisting the entry of British invaders in 1897 into Benin City.

His statement "no other person dare pass this road except the Oba" (So kpon Oba) was later translated to "SAKPONBA", the name of a well-known road in Benin. To commemorate his contribution, his statue was erected at what is now Oba Ovonramwen Square, at the beginning of Sakponba Road, Benin City. According to tradition, that was the very spot Chief Asoro

20/03/2022

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The first Nigerian Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912 - 1966), greets air stewardess Miss Christina, after the inaugural flight of the WAAC (West African Airline Company).

In the background is Samuel Ladoke Akintola, who was the then Minister of Aviation and he established the Nigeria Airways and Sir James Robertson, the last colonial Governor-General of Nigeria from 1955 to 1960.

Christina Eyimofe Twsela (Stallings) was Nigeria’s first Air Hostess Mrs. Christina Eyimofe Stallings is the first air hostess in Nigeria. Christina Stallings was born on December 22nd, 1929 in Kaduna to Mr. & Mrs. James Ekeru Tugele of Edjeba.

She was first married to Late Chief Alfred Rewane and later married an Africa- America civil rights lawyer from Detroit, Herman D. Stallings but was widowed after 5 years.

She died in San Francisco on March 27th, 2013, aged 83. She was buried at the Skylawn Memorial Park in California, USA.

She is survived by her Children, Tosan Rewane, Omatsola Rewane, Nene Amachree-Piltoff, Douglas Eyimofe Stallings, Delia Eyitemi Stallings and six Grandchildren - Foluwa, Tene, Karis, Preston, Eyisan and Arese.

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