Customers sort through the Mitsubishi sector of the Ladipo Market, filing past engines and other parts. Did you know that the majority of used parts in the Ladipo Market are said to originate in Europe? It is thought to be the largest auto parts market in West Africa.
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Without mentioning the exploits of the fabled Chief Balogun Landuji Oshodi Tapa, Lagos history would be incomplete. For those who don’t know, Oshodi Tapa was a young child of Nupe descent from the North who was going to be transported as a sold slave onto a Portuguese ship. After his parents were killed, he fled and took sanctuary in the Oba of Lagos palace. Under Fagbemi, Kosoko’s father, Oba Eshinlokun, adopted him and reared him like one of his own princes. He was able to purchase his own slaves and enjoyed some degree of success in trading. A few years later, monarch Eshilokun’s friend, a Portuguese trader, asked the monarch to let two of his children to travel with him to Portugal, promising to bring the children back. The King was quite cautious about this offer and decided to give two of his most devoted subjects instead of jeopardizing the lives of any of his own offspring. He so decided to accompany the Portuguese merchant with Oshodi and Dada Antonio. The King denied his own children an opportunity that would have benefitted them more in the long run, even though he believed he was safeguarding their interests. After traveling to America with the Portuguese merchant for many years, Oshodi and Dada Antonio were eventually given back to the King. Oshodi worked as a commission agent and toll collector for Messrs. G. L. Gaiser after arriving from America. When the Portuguese merchants’ ships arrived, commerce took off, Oshodi’s sales commissions rose, and he eventually amassed wealth. Oshodi remained faithful to the King and was elevated to the rank of chief, with the exclusive duty of taking care of the King’s women, demonstrating that he never forgot the hands that, in a sense, nourished him. In the unlikely event that repairs were necessary, he was the sole person with access to the Queen’s apartment. Chief Oshodi never wavered in his devotion to his kids following the passing of King Eshinlokun. In particular, he sided with his father’s successor, Idewu Ojulari. It was Chief Eletu Odibo’s responsibility to install and crown any new monarch, and Kosoko, a son of Oshinlokun, was considered the legitimate heir to the throne after Chief Idewu Ojulari’s rule. The would-be wife of Eletu Odibo was…
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A young photo of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the former president of Nigeria. In this old photo from 1981, the president is seen attending Ebekun Secondary Commercial Grammar School in Iresi, Osun State, as a member of the youth corp. The president was a farmer’s son who also happened to be a boat manufacturer. Yes, he goes by Goodluck. This proves that everything is possible for us to accomplish if we set our minds to it.
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Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu escaped an attempted assassination on Sunday that resulted in the deaths of four other persons, according to a story from the Guardian newspaper. Recounting his experience, Tinubu—who escaped unharmed—said that on his way home from a tour of the city’s waste collection operations and security measures, assailants opened fire on his convoy. According to AFP, Police Commissioner Mike Okiro attributed the attack to the Yoruba Oodua People’s Congress, which has been implicated in other ethnic violent breakouts over the previous two months that have claimed the lives of about 100 people. According to The Guardian, two well-known persons have been detained by police in relation to the governor’s attack. The attack, according to Tinubu, supported his claim that the state needs at least 20,000 more police officers to protect the lives and property of the eight million people living in Lagos, according to The Guardian
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In Erin-Ijesa, Osun State, in the western region of Nigeria, Kumuyi was born into a Christian family. He finished his secondary schooling in 1961 at Mayflower School in Ikenne, Ogun State. He then went on to the University of Ibadan, where he earned a first-class honors degree in mathematics in 1967 and was named the school’s top graduate that year. The University of Lagos offered him a post-graduate course in education after that.
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The Lagos Government Railway and the Baro-Kano Railway were combined by Frederick Lugard in October 1912 to form the Nigerian Railway, which became the official name of the system. The combination made the Northern and Southern Nigeria Protectorates much more desirable to combine. With branch extensions, the railway line operated on two main North and South trunks: one from Lagos to Nguru and the other from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri. The Nigerian Railway Corporation took over coordination of the nation’s railway network in the 1950s, in part due to financial considerations. West Indians were among the diverse workforce of Nigerians working by the rail transport system, who came from a variety of ethnic backgrounds in the nation. The government railway department was divided into four main divisions before the Nigerian Railway Corporation was established: the engineering department, the running department, the traffic and commercial department, and the accounts and stores department. Prior to 1912, when the Lagos Railway was only getting started, Governors MacGrogor and Egerton had colonial goals of building a railroad from Lagos to the furthest reaches of Northeastern Nigeria and opening up trade with the interior of Southwest Nigeria. The railroad bridge built along two important road networks that connect the Island with other sections of Lagos, the Carter bridge and the Denton bridge, is what allowed the railway terminal at Iddo to be built in Lagos. It also serves as a transit station for trains traveling across the island. Additionally in 1896, work on building a railway started in the Iddo region. It was extended along the Lagos route, stopping at Otta, Ifo, Arigbajo, Papa Alto, Abeokuta, and Ibadan (1901). However, the Southern Nigerian railway’s continued growth was impeded by financial issues. Plans to connect Ibadan with Oyo (1907) and Benin with Sapele (1906) failed. A railroad connecting Ibadan with Osogbo and Ilorin was officially sanctioned in 1904, and development from Ilorin to Jebba was authorized in 1907.
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In 1957, Dangote was born in Kano, then a part of British Nigeria, into a prosperous Hausa Muslim family. The businessman Sanusi Dantata’s daughter, Mariya Sanusi Dantata, was his mother. Mohammed Dangote, his father, was Dantata’s business partner. He is the great-grandson of Alhassan Dantata, who at the time of his death in 1955 was the richest person in West Africa, through his mother. Sani, the brother of Dangote, was a businessman as well. Dangote attended the Sheikh Ali Kumasi Madrasa for his early education before attending Capital High School in Kano. He received his diploma from Birnin Kudu’s Government College in 1978. Al-Azhar University in aCairo, Egypt, awarded him a bachelor’s degree in business studies and administration.
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In the docket of the Special Miscellaneous Offenses Tribunal in Lagos in 1996, an elderly Fela Anikulapo Kuti was included. On January 14, 1997, a raid by members of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), then under the command of Maj-Gen. Musa Bamaiyi, resulted in the arrest of at least 100 persons, including kids. Bamaiyi and Fela clashed about the negative effects of Indian hemp during a live TV show. Femi Falana, Fela’s attorney, pointed out that Fela pulled a quick one on the NDLEA by signing his interrogation charge sheet with the remark “in chains” next to it. This was FELA’S CLEVER “TRAP.” Because the statement was acquired under duress, Femi Falana persuaded the court to discard it! Fela then filed a lawsuit against the NDLEA N100M, alleging that they had violated his basic rights to human dignity, personal liberty, and a fair trial. Now humiliated, NDLEA begged Fela to drop his civil lawsuit and offered to drop the criminal case. When Falana inquired about Fela’s acceptance of the NDLEA’s proposition, Fela allegedly replied, “NA GOOD DEAL AS BAMAIYI DON BEG ME”.
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The Egungun costume’s body, which is made up of layer after layer of adorned material, honors the family’s wealth and prestige while paying tribute to their ancestors. In order to appease or curry favor with the ancestor spirit, owners of Egungun or members of the lineage frequently added new panels of cloth over previous ones throughout time. A range of fabric appliquéd panels, perhaps applied over several years, are visible in the costume’s creation in the exemplar for purchase consideration. During an Egungun performance, the dancer’s movements create flowing patterns from the individual strips of cloth, highlighting the striking variety in textures, colors, and designs. The clever construction of the outfit ensures that the cloth panels splay out in all directions during intensive dancing or spinning movements, never revealing the dancer’s body beneath.
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An old photo from 1961, a woman is shown holding a pipe and waiting for people to buy her fish at Makoko village in Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria. One of the greatest and oldest fish and seafood markets in Ebute Meta Lagos, is Makoko Fish Market in Lagos, Nigeria. It is a living example of the abundant aquatic beauty and wealth of Lagos. The market has been around for more than 160 years and is still in operation. The market, which is home to the wealthiest aquatic animals and a seafood lover’s heaven, opens as early as 5 a.m. The market offers a wide variety of seafood, including crabs, lobster, prawns, shrimp, squid, crayfish, and cuttlefish, among many more species.
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Igala King Attah Ameh Oboni was highly esteemed. Attah Ameh was ordered to take off his cap to greet the Queen of England, as others had done, during a conference in Kaduna that included all of Nigeria’s paramount traditional rulers as well as the queen of England. Even yet, he persisted until they told him to leave the meeting if he didn’t take off his cap. However, Attah was unique—or was he? Attah was not allowed to take off his cap in public. A swarm of bees filled the whole hall where they were residing, originating from Attah Ameh Oboni’s cap, which he took off to welcome the Queen. The amiable Oba of Benin was requested to leave before taking off his cap by Attah Ameh, but the Queen of England and the other rulers there rushed wildly. The conference ended when some people got stung by bees, and the place emptied out. History claims that the security personnel requested that Attah Ameh Oboni be arrested and handcuffed; nevertheless, the handcuffs were removed from his hands. On the orders of the Northern rulers, he was thereafter locked up in a room and watched over by security guards; however, the guards discovered later that he had fled the confinement. Yes, he said when the security guards were escorting him to a sealed room. Then he told Amanabo not to turn around until the automobile started to feel cool. Even though Amanabo briefly protested that he…
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On the forecourt of a Shell garage and gas station in the city of Ibadan, in the southern Nigerian state of Oyo State, a Land Rover gets filled up with fuel. An oil firm called Royal Dutch Shell is known by the brand name Shell. In 1937, Shell D’Arcy commenced operations in Nigeria after being awarded an exploration license. The Niger Delta’s first commercial oil field was found by Shell Nigeria in 1956, and oil exports began the following year.
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A genuine Benin Chief can be identified by his stiff, circular Ikele necklace of beads (signifying royalty) The agate or coral beads are strung together with copper wire to create the circular form. The ikele is only worn once any deserving person has been granted permission by the Oba of Benin to do so. These coral beads stand for hierarchy, domination, and power. Coral beads are formed from the carbonate secretions that make up the structure that the coral “polyps” live on, not the actual living organism. The collected coral is polished and cut into cabochons, which are further carved into beads. After being harvested, the coral is polished and cut into cabochons, which are then carved into beads.
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Sun International is the owner of the Federal Palace Hotel. Sun International was founded in 1969 when South African Breweries and Sol Kerzner joined forces to form the Southern Sun Hotel Company. The company is well recognized for its Sun City Resort in the Northwest Province, Rustenburg. Nigeria signed its independence declaration in the main boardroom of the newly built Federal Palace Hotel, following its separation from Britain in 1960. One of the primary highlights of the hotel’s casino is currently this boardroom. The hotel’s Independence Hall, which also held the 1977 Festival of Africa and the summit of the African Union’s (formerly Organization of African Unity) heads of state, served as the venue for Nigeria’s official Independence celebration. Nigeria’s official independence celebration was held in the hotel’s Independence Hall, which also played home to the Festival of Africa and the summit of the African Union’s (formerly Organization of Africa Unity) heads of state in 1977.
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Mr. Bellingham being carried by his servants while journeying in Southern Nigeria,
A photo capturing youthful Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote (first from the left), Dangote’s granddad who to begin with gave him seed capital to begin commerce, late Alhaji Sanusi Dantata (second left), Alhaji Hassan Dantata (second right) and late Qadiriyyah researcher Sheik Alin Kumasi (first from the right) within the early 1980’s. The…
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Iyake Lake is the as it were recognized suspended/hanging lake in Africa – one of the as it were two within the world after the Hanging Lake in Colorado. It has been named as one of the captivating locales to visit in Nigeria as well as one of the seven ponders of Nigeria. It is…
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So said Miss Nigeria 1958. And who is Miss Nigeria – this encapsulation of a tasty sensation? She is a 19-year-old Helen Anyamaeluna. And some time before her exposure to glam, she was a receptionist within the Eastern Nigeria Ministry of Transport. Helen is no brainless excellence. She was a language specialist who can hold her claim in…
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The history of Nigeria isn’t total without specifying the history of Memorable Kano city. Kano was the location of a number of earlier kingdoms and domains, counting the Kingdom of Kano, which was centered in Dalla Slope and existed from earlier to 1000 Advertisement to 1349. In 1349, the Sultanate of Kano was set up…
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Chief Obafemi Awolowo giggling with Chief Ogunde whereas holding between his legs youthful Ace Abayomi Ogunde (one of Chief Ogunde’s children) when he gone by Chief Hubert Ogunde in his house at 3, Respectable Road in Lagos in1966. This was Chief Awolowo’s to begin with first ever visit to Chief Hubert Ogunde’s home after he…
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