THE UNTOLD UNIQUENESS OF YORÙBÁ’S INDIGENOUS ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES (OTÍ) WRITTEN BY JOHNSON ADE OKUNADE As a developing country, Nigeria is at the crossroads of indigenous and foreign cultures. A culture that has been in existence for centuries is being replaced with a...
Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola,GCFR (24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998) was a Nigerian Yoruba businessman, publisher, politician and aristocrat of the Yoruba Egba clan, he was the Aare Ona Kankafo of the Yoruba land. MKO Abiola ran for the presidency in 1993, for...
Although Africa is regarded as the poorest continent in the world, we can’t but identify numerous business magnates and self-made richest billionaires who rose against all odds and imprinted their footsteps on the sands of time. The list of African richest people...
THE BIOGRAPHY OF (SIR) CHIEF (HON.) LAWYER, SAMUEL LADOKE AKINTOLA (GCON) THE LAST PREMIER OF WESTERN REGION AND THE 13TH AARE ONA KAKANFO OF YORUBALAND Short Biography Samuel Ladoke Akintola was born on July 10, 1910, into the famous Akintola Akinbola family of...
On March 18, 1907, Dr. and Mrs. George Green arrived Ogbomosho where they started the Ogbomoso Baptist Hospital [Now Bowen University Teaching Hospital (BUTH)] George was born July 26, 1872, in London, relocated to Montreal, Canada in 1894, and lived briefly in...