When Queen Elizabeth came to Nigeria In 1960 before the independence, we reveal to you where she passed the night.

When we talk of Nigeria history, the Ijebu people will always be noted as one of the wealthiest Billionaire tribes and there is in another dimension as they’ve been rich right from the pre-colonial era.

One of the Notable billionaire of the old who flexed their dough hard includes Ijebu born businessman and philanthropist, Timothy Adeola Odutola. Before we go into the evergreen edifice this man built, we would love to run a short profile of him.
Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola (1902- 95) Is a prominent businessman and Philanthropist from #Ijebu-Ode.

He attended St Saviours Primary School Italope and Ijebu-Ode Grammar School. He started work in the Colonial Service and later went into business selling damask and fish.

He became a Produce buyer opening large storage units and transportation lines. By 1960 he had created a conglomerate including three factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch, a 5,000-acre rubber and palm oil plantation, a sawmill, and export business.

Chief Odutola became so rich that he had a personal relationship with the father of Queen Elizabeth, George VI.

In 1956 during her Official visit to Nigeria, the Queen of England; Queen Elizabeth II was scheduled to visit only Ibadan, Enugu and Kaduna as the regional capitals.

Queen Elizabeth requested her visit be rerouted to include Ijebu-Ode to enable her to visit Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola, the Ogbeni Oja, her father’s friend who usually wined and dined with the royals at Buckingham Palace.

She passed a night at Ijebu-Ode and what a privileged visit indeed. Behold the Adeola Odutola Lodge, Ijebu-Ode (built, 1939).


https://www.anaedoonline.ng/2020/02/29/see-castle-where-queen-elizabeth-spent-a-night-in-nigeria-photos/

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These are the few that benefited from slave trade. Mind you! Africans sold Africans.

Do well anything you’ve got to do
This house still looks modern today
Excellence speaks for itself

Biodun556:
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Interesting story

But I find it hard to believe that the Queen went to Ijebu Ode, and there is no picture of this historic visit

Aunticate this story by posting a picture of the Queen visiting Ijebu Ode as such visit would been groundbreaking at the time

Good to know ..thank you op

The Queen had zero achievement but celebrated by the same black monkeys whose ancestors she animalized.

bergs2:
These are the few that benefited from slave trade. Mind you! Africans sold Africans.

Odutola sold slaves? LWKMD

No he didn't, he was an industrialist.

I can't believe that the Queen went to Ijebu Ode and return with her head intact.

That was when she came to Nigeria to plead for a loan from Ojukwu's dad who was the richest man in Nigeria then.

Why's the house supposedly built in the 50s in coloured pictures but the one with the queen is in black and white? Propaganda is the word here.

Castle lite

10mobile:
The Queen had zero achievement but celebrated by the same black monkeys whose ancestors she animalized.

Ancestors ? The queen was in her 20s in 1950s

bergs2:
These are the few that benefited from slave trade. Mind you! Africans sold Africans.

There's a difference between slave trade and colonialism, these are 2 distant eras. The queen never enslaved any Africans, before everybody becomes an online activist, try to get proper knowledge.

Perhaps Mary Slessor too shouldn't have stopped the killing of twins in Nigeria because African societies were "perfect"

Colonialism was what ushered Africa into the present stage of enlightenment and development. What would we achieve without Christianity and education?

Just like the Uju woman insulting people up and down on Twitter, most of you love to deceive yourselves.

Nonsense queen of genocide, ask Palestinians, Indians, South Africans and Igbo people. Rot in hell

History Clerk in government Treasury, 1921; Native Authority, Ijebu-Ode, 1921; member, Legislative Council, 1945-59; member, defunct Western House of Assembly, 1945-59; member. Federal House of Representatives, 1952-54; Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1960-64; director of the Central Bank and the Nigerian Industrial Development Bank. president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, chairman of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Na late Chief Odutola record be that. No be everybody be slave merchant.

bergs2:
These are the few that benefited from slave trade. Mind you! Africans sold Africans.

Now is the turn of Queen Eliza to suffer in the hands of bloggers.



They'll soon find her shimi and bra she left when she visited Nigeria.

Smh

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