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| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:20pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
[size=14pt]Samuel Johnson[/size]  Samuel Johnson (24 June 1846 - 29 April 1901) was an Anglican priest and historian of the Yoruba. Born a recaptive 'Creole' in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Johnson was an Omoba of the Oyo clan as a descendant of the Alaafin Abiodun of Oyo. He completed his education at the Church Missionary Society (CMS) Training Institute and subsequently taught during what became known as the Yoruba civil war. Johnson and Charles Phillips, also of the CMS, arranged a ceasefire in 1886 and then a treaty that guaranteed the independence of the Ekiti towns. Ilorin refused to cease fighting however, and the war dragged on. In 1880, he became a deacon and in 1888 a priest. He was based in Oyo from 1881 onward and completed a work on Yoruba history in 1897. This event is said to have been caused by him fearing that his people were losing their history, and that they were beginning to know European history better. Ironically, this work was misplaced by his British publishers. After his death, his brother Dr. Obadiah Johnson re-compiled and rewrote the book, using the reverend's copious notes as a guide. In 1921, he released it as A History of the Yorubas from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate. The book has since been likened to the rise and decline of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. 2 Likes |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by zimoni(f): 4:23pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Rest in peace Pa Samuel Johnson. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:23pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
[size=14pt]Ajayi Crowther[/size]  The Right Reverend Samuel Ajayi Crowther D.D. (c. 1809 – 31 December 1891) was a linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria. Born in Osogun (in today's Iseyin Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria), Crowther was a Yoruba man who also identified with Sierra Leone's ascendant Creole ethnic group. Ajayi was 12 years old when he was captured, along with his mother and toddler brother and other family members, along with his entire village, by Muslim Fulani slave raiders in 1821 and sold to Portuguese slave traders. However, before his slave-ship left port, it was boarded by a British Royal Navy ship under the command of Captain Henry Leeke, and Crowther was taken to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he was released. Ajayi's mother was a descendant of King Abiodun. While in Sierra Leone Crowther was cared for by the Anglican Church Missionary Society and was taught English. He converted to Christianity. On the 11th of December 1825 he had a rebirth by baptism and he named himself after the vicar of Christ Church, Newgate, London - Samuel Crowther, who was one of the pioneers of the C.M.S.. Ajayi was baptized by Rev. John Raban. In Niger Territory, 1888 While in Freetown, Crowther became interested in languages. In 1826 he was taken to England to attend St Mary's Church in Islington and the church's school. He returned to Freetown in 1827 and attended, as the first student,[4] the newly opened Fourah Bay College, an Anglican missionary school, where his interest in language found him studying Latin and Greek but also Temne. After completing his studies he began teaching at the school. He married a schoolmistress, Asano (i.e. Hassana; she was formerly Muslim), baptised Susan. She was also rescued from the Portuguese slave ship that originally brought Crowther to Sierra Leone, and had also converted to Christianity. Their several children included Dandeson Coates Crowther, archdeacon of the Niger Delta.[5] Crowther was father-in-law to Thomas Babington Macaulay, a junior associate, who married Crowther's 2nd daughter (Abigail Crowther).[6] Crowther's grandson Herbert Macaulay (Thomas Babington Macaulay and Abigail Crowther's son) became one of the first Nigerian nationalists and played an important role in ending British colonial rule in Nigeria. Crowther was also a close associate and friend of Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, an influential politician, mariner, philanthropist and industrialist in colonial Lagos.[7] Both men collaborated on a couple of Lagos social initiatives such as the opening of The Academy (a social and cultural center for public enlightenment) on October 24, 1866 with Bishop Crowther as the 1st patron and Captain J.P.L Davies as 1st president 1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Truckpusher(m): 4:25pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
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| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:27pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
John Augustus Abayomi-Cole  Dr. Abayomi-Cole was born in 1848 in Abeokuta, Ogun State in southwest Nigeria to Creole parents from Sierra Leone who were living in Nigeria as missionaries. When Archdeacon Robbin parents returned to Freetown, they brought the four-year-old Abayomi-Cole with them. In Freetown he was put under the tutelage of the great A.B.C. Sibthorpe at Hastings, a suburb of Freetown and was later sent to the C.M.S. while in Freetown, he attended the Grammar School where he completed his secondary education. He received a Bachelors degree in Medicine from the Fourah Bay College in Freetown. After graduating from Fourah Bay College, he taught at the Evangelical United Brethren Church School, and in his mid-twenties he left his home country of Sierra Leone and moved to the United States where he was ordained a Minister in the American Wesleyan Methodist church. He later qualified as a medical doctor and became a Fellow of the Society of Apothecaries (F.S.A.) of the United States. Shortly thereafter, he became an affiliate of the National Association of Medical Herbalists in the United Kingdom. Combining his scientific training with a wealth of knowledge on the healing properties of traditional herbs, roots and leaves, Dr. Abayomi-Cole's fame soon spread to all parts of Sierra Leone, and even to neighbouring Liberia. His cures were a mixture of the orthodox and the traditional. He cured rheumatic pains, skin diseases such as "alay", nervous and eye diseases, etc. During the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic, he invented a preparation of "tea-bush", "camphor", lime and spirit which saved many lives at a time when the influenza death toll was so high that people were buried in trenches in Freetown and other areas in Sierra Leone. One of his well-known preparations as an antidote for poison, "ekpa", is still used in Krio villages homes in the Western Area. It is also used as a remedy for various stomach disorders. Dr. Abayomi-Cole's herbal practice became more popular and lucrative than those of medical practitioners who had studied orthodox medicine in Britain, and he became a scientific and medical adviser to Governor Sir Leslie Probyn. At the turn of the century, malaria was the greatest scourge of West Africa, and was taking a deadly toll particularly of Europeans living in West Africa. Dr. Abayomi-Cole was called upon by the Colonial Government to help combat the disease. He made an effective preparation of herbs, containing as its main ingredients "broomstone" leaves and "agiri". But he found that his cured patients returned within a few weeks with the same symptoms. Through intensive medical research, he was able to establish that poor environmental sanitation was the root cause of the relapse — mosquitoes were breeding in stagnant pools of water around houses. He organised groups of voluntary workers known as "mosquito missionaries" who went from compound to compound advising people on the necessity of keeping their living areas clean. The scheme worked so well that the Colonial Government later paid the volunteers monthly. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:30pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
H. O. Davies  Oloye Hezekiah Oladipo Davies (5 April 1905 – 22 November 1989) was a leading Nigerian nationalist, lawyer, journalist, trade unionist, thought leader, international statesman and politician during the nation's movement towards independence in 1960 and immediately afterwards. Chief Davies was born in the southern city of Lagos, Nigeria. His maternal Great Grandfather was the Oba of Effon-Alaiye. His maternal Great Grand Mother was the Owa (Queen regnant) of Ilesha. His grandmother was Princess Haastrup, the daughter of the Ijesha monarch, and his paternal Grand-Father, Prince Ogunmade-Davies of the Ogunmade Ruling House of Lagos, was the son of King Docemo. His father, known as "Spiritual Moses", was one of the founders of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church of Nigeria. 1911–17, attended the Wesley School, Olowogbowo, Lagos 1917–20, attended the Methodist Boys High School, Lagos 1921–23, attended the King's College, Lagos 1924– Assistant Master at King's College, Lagos Notable amongst his childhood friends were Nigeria's first President Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe from the Methodist Boys High School and Nigeria's first indigenous Chief Justice of the Federation, Sir Adetokunbo Ademola and Nigeria's first indigenous Surgeon Dr Oni Akerele, both from King's College. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:32pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Oni Akerele John Oni Akerele (1906 - 1983) was a Nigerian doctor, Nigeria's first indigenous surgeon. While living in London, in 1941 he married Dorothy Jackson, who was of African, European and Native American descent, and they set up home in Kilburn, in the north of London. Their house became a meeting place for Africans such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first President of Nigeria, and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya.[2] While in London, in 1945 he was one of the founders of the pan-Yoruba cultural society Egbe Omo Oduduwa, and was the first president. Members included Obafemi Awolowo, Secretary, Akintola Williams, Saburi Biobaku, Ayo Rosiji and others. Akerele returned to Nigeria after independence in 1960, and became medical officer to the Western Region in Ibadan. During the Nigerian civil war (1967–1970) they moved to Lagos, where Akerela set up a private practice. He died in 1983. Dorothy lived on to the age of 93, dying in April 2007 |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by IlekeHD: 4:33pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:33pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Ondo govt. distributes N120m cheques to 2400 farmers The Ondo State Government has disbursed N120 million to 2,400 farmers comprising 232 groups in the state under the Fadama III Project Additional Financing (AF). The state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, made this known on Monday during the official flag-off ceremony of Fadama III Additional Financing (AF) and presentation of cheques to farmers in the state. Mimiko was represented by his Deputy, Alhaji Lasisi Oluboyo, at the event. He said that his government had spent over N5 billion to implement various agric-related programmes in the last six years and also paid N380 million as counterpart contributions to the Fadama Project from inception. According to him, one of the major policy thrusts of the 12-point agenda of his administration involves using agriculture to address problems of food security and youth employment confronting the society. The governor said the problems of unemployment, mostly among the youths, had resulted into some social vices like youth restiveness, prostitution, armed robbery, drug addiction and advance fee fraud. “This government has, therefore, put in place the New Generation Farmers Programme as a means of empowering the youth and increasing the population of young farmers so that agricultural productivity can hike up and alleviate poverty in the state,” he said. He said the state had cultivated 1,384 hectares of farmland for the production of maize, cassava and cowpea, listing other initiatives under the aegis of Ondo State Cooperative Federation (ODSCOFED), Wealth Creation Agency (WECA), Ondo State Agricultural Commodities Association (OSACA) among others. The governor said the fund was channelled toward empowering the teeming farmers and unemployed youths who were ready to work in agricultural based enterprises. He urged beneficiaries not to see the fund as free money but to work hard to justify government investment by sustaining the various businesses. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry for Agriculture, Mr Alex Aragbaiye, said Fadama III Project had implemented 784 sub projects across 160 Fadama Communities. Aragbaye noted that a total of 675 out of the sub-projects are income generating enterprises while the rest 109 are rural infrastructures that promote agricultural production, processing and marketing. ‘’Over 30,000 farmers who are direct beneficiaries of the project intervention have had their capacity building in one area of agriculture and the others,” he said. Aragbaiye disclosed that the fund was made possible through the funding arrangements of International Development Association (IDA) with N676, 482, 545.20, the state government contribution of N292, 066, 00, local governments’ contribution of N72, 000, 000 and beneficiaries’ contribution of N250, 432, 698.2. The State Director, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Mrs Florence Omogbemi, harped on the need to focus on agriculture to boost the nation economy. Omogbemi said that the sector contributes 40 per cent to the GDP against 13 per cent by the oil sector. ‘’The agriculture sector employs about two-thirds of the total labour force and provides livelihood for about 90 per cent of the rural population,’’ she said. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by IlekeHD: 4:35pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
^^^ when was this? It's something, but it's not much. At all. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Truckpusher(m): 4:36pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
IlekeHD:Gerarahia menh. You're changing monikers like pant....smh  |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:36pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Oguntola Sapara  Oguntola Odunbaku Sapara (June 1861 – June 1935) was a doctor, who spent most of his career and life in Nigeria. He was best known for his campaign against secret societies that were spreading smallpox. Oguntola Sapara was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone on 9 June 1861 and named Alexander Johnson Williams. His father was a liberated slave from Ilesa in Western Nigeria, and his mother was from Egbaland. His brother was Christopher Sapara Williams, who became a prominent Nigerian lawyer. His family moved to Lagos Colony in 1876, where he attended the Lagos Church Missionary Society Grammar School until 1878. He became an apprentice to a Lagos printer early in 1879, working there for three years. He served as an assistant dispenser at the Colonial Hospital for three years before founding his own dispensary in Ghana. Sapara travelled to London, England and entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1888, where he gained honours in midwifery. Moving to Scotland, in 1895 he obtained the L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S. of the University of Edinburgh, the L.F.P.S. of the University of Glasgow and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Health. Sapara returned to the Lagos colony. In January 1896 he was appointed an Assistant Colonial Surgeon. He served continuously in different stations for the next thirty-two years. Sapara made many contributions to improving public health. He fought for slum clearance, organised a society for scientifically training midwives, organised the first public dispensary in 1901, and identified causes of an epidemic of tuberculosis in 1918, which included overcrowding, poor ventilation and public ignorance about hygiene. He was Chairman of the Health Week Committee, leading the successful fight against bubonic plague, which struck Lagos in 1924. In Nigeria at that time, numerous secret societies, such as the "Sopona" cult of the Yoruba people, had power. Sometimes they tried to blackmail people, threatening that if an individual did not pay money, the society would make him become ill and die. When a victim refused, a member would infect him with smallpox through applying scrapings of the skin rash of smallpox cases. To keep their powers, the societies resisted public health efforts for vaccination. Sapara joined the cult incognito, at considerable personal risk. When he had learned the secret of their power, he helped the government prepare legislation to ban the societies. In the later part of his career, Sapara ran the Massey Street dispensary, serving most of Lagos. He persuaded the government to convert the dispensary into the Massey Street Hospital, opened by Governor Graeme Thomson in 1926. Sapara took a special interest in traditional herbal medicines, and spent much time in scientific investigation of their effects. His efforts against some of the cults notwithstanding, he was a keen student of traditional Yoruba culture. He defended it at just about every opportunity. Sapara retired in 1928. He died in Lagos in June 1935. The famous Jùjú musician Tunde King played at his wake 2 Likes |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by IlekeHD: 4:37pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Truckpusher: So you wear the same blouse everyday?  |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by superstar1(m): 4:39pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
ProfShymex is really dishing out ancestral course 701. 1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by IlekeHD: 4:39pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
ProfShymex: We're not worried about this. She's a Yoruba breed, the galaxy is her limit  1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:39pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
One great personality we forget to mention is Jacob Sogboyega Odulate the man behind the famous "Alabukun powder" You can steal every other thing in my former neighbour's house but never steal his alabukun.That's his soul 2 Likes 1 Share
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| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by IlekeHD: 4:41pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Profshymex, Please make this thread explosive with the greatest Yoruba man that ever lived: Awolowo  3 Likes |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by laudate: 4:42pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
ProfShymex: How interesting!! I read somewhere that Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh, that wonderful medical doctor who correctly diagnosed the Ebola virus in Lagos, and quarantined the first index case to stop the disease from spreading, was actually a direct descendant of Herbert Macaulay. Small world...  1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:43pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
IlekeHD: Its a recent news,October 26. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/ondo-govt-distributes-n120m-cheques-to-2400-farmers/ |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:43pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Dr. Adeniyi Jones  Mention “Adeniyi Jones” in a game of trivia and most will refer to a bustling street in Ikeja, Lagos named after renowned Dr. Curtis Adeniyi-Jones. A handful may shed light on his diverse contributions as political activist, legislator and economic reformist in 1920s and 30s, but fewer still will recall that Adeniyi Jones was in fact a Sierra Leonean of Aku (Yoruba) heritage. Born in 1876 at Waterloo – a small town 20 miles east of Freetown – he lived his early life here, attending the Sierra Leone Grammar School before venturing on to Durham University to study medicine. After further training at the University of Dublin and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, he returned not to Sierra Leone but to Nigeria in 1904. Adeniyi-Jones was a highly conscious, articulate and principled man, whose education had given him a confidence and awareness of his potential influence. Frustrated by structural blockages within the colonial medical services, he resigned from his first post in Lagos and soon set up a private practice at his Priscilla Hall residence. By 1914, his clinic was a leading facility in Lagos, complete with separate wards for men and women and a well-equipped operating theatre. Despite his success, his early encounter with discriminatory policies in the public Like many foreign-trained West Africans at the time, he gravitated towards the Nationalist elite, and soon became was one of its core political activists agitating for the right of Africans to vote. Their ardent campaigning paid off in 1922, when Governor Clifford announced a new constitution giving Nigerians the right to vote for the first time. With elections fixed for September 1923, this was a significant triumph for Dr Adeniyi-Jones and other forerunners at the time – proof that several years of agitation had finally borne fruit. The quartet of Herbert Macaulay, Egerton Shyngle, Eric Moore, and Adeniyi-Jones – all highly accomplished individuals – joined forces to prepare for the election. The first step was to put together a structure for the battle ahead; hence the decision to form a political party called the Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP). The party was launched on June 24, 1923 and Egerton Shyngle was elected President of the party with Adeniyi-Jones as Second President. 1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Truckpusher(m): 4:43pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
IlekeHD:Stop derailing |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by modath(f): 4:44pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
superstar1: Our Okun family friends has bought a piece of land in Omuo Ekiti (boundary between Kogi & Ekiti) cos in his words " Eleda mi o ni je n ba gambari lo"  When i want to mess with them , i tell them we will dash them to the north & they promptly reject it vehemently.. The yoruba speaking part of Edo, Kwara & Kogi would rather become refugees in the main yoruba states than be carved out as Jara.. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by laudate: 4:44pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Aareonakakanfo: Guy, that thing works like magic. Ten times faster and better than panadol. I take it everywhere with me!! |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by jstbeinhonest(m): 4:45pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
ilekehd , truckpusher pls stop |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by veraponpo(m): 4:45pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
ProfShymex: So, Samuel Johnson was actually a Yoruba man. He wrote many things about African History especially Yoruba race but I had always thought he was a white man. 2 Likes |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by IlekeHD: 4:45pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by modath(f): 4:46pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
IlekeHD: Please don't insult THE GREATEST NIGERIAN THAT EVER LIVETH... period!!! My parents & their numerous siblings... Free education tinz!! ... Moi... OAU tinz... 1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:47pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Samuel Akinsanya  Samuel Akisanya, (1 August 1898 – 1985) was a Nigerian trade unionist and nationalist based in Lagos, Nigeria during the colonial era, one of the founders of the Nigerian Youth Movement. He was also the Oba of Isara, an office which he held from 1941 until his death. He is today widely regarded as the greatest king in the history of the city. Akisanya was born on 1 August 1898 in Isara. He attended the Anglican School in Ishara, then obtained work as a shorthand typist and writer from 1916 to 1931. Around 1923, the Study Circle was founded in Lagos, with a number of prominent young members including Akisanya, H.A. Subair, R.A. Coker, Olatunji Caxton-Martins and Adetokunbo Ademola. The group sponsored essay-writing, lectures, debates and book reviews, and later became a forum for discussing political issues. Akisanya became the organising Secretary of the Nigerian Produce Traders Union (N.P.T.U.) and President of the Nigerian Motor Transport Union between 1932 and 1940. He was one of the founders of the Lagos Youth Movement in 1934, renamed the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) in 1936. Other founding members were Dr. J.C. Vaughan, Ernest Ikoli and H.O. Davies. Akisanya was appointed general secretary and later became Vice-President.[1] The initial stimulus for founding the movement was controversy over the standard of education to be offered by the newly founded Yaba College, but the NYM was to grow into Nigeria's first genuinely nationalist organisation.[4] In 1938, Akisanya was one of the seven subscribers to the Service Press Limited, which acquired the assets and liabilities of the Daily Service newspaper. In 1937 some expatriate firms led by Cadbury Brothers formed a buying agreement, a cartel to control the price paid to producers of cocoa and to cut out the middlemen. The N.P.T.U., which represented these middlemen and was led by Akisanya, launched an effective public attack on the agreement. The union organised protest meetings and threatened to hold up transport of the crop, or in extreme to destroy the crop. The government attempted to defuse the crisis by supporting opponents of Akisanya. Eventually it blew over when cocoa prices rose the next year. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by superstar1(m): 4:47pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
modath: In their best interest, they need to b more vocal about it, rather than keeping silent. 1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:47pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
laudate: Haha so you're also an alabukun disciple I would have told a beautiful story about a relative but make i no cast my family members here, who knows they're probably reading my comments |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by superstar1(m): 4:48pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Truckpusher and IlekeHD, Both of you shuld find another for your luvy duvy oh. 1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:50pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
King Adeniji Adele has to be the most handsome king ever with swag. My nyggah right here! Fleeeeeeeee!  1 Like |
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