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LASU RELEASES PRE-DEGREE ADMISSION FORM FOR 2022/2023 ACADEMIC SESSION

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Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for admission into the Lagos State University Pre–Degree Studies (PDS) Programme, which shall commence in October, 2022. The Programme shall run for One (1) Academic Session, beginning from October, 2022, to September, 2023. It is an intensive programme to prepare candidates with deficiency in their O’Level result to successfully re-sit for the Examination and also prepare them for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination [UTME] for admission into the 100 Level Degree programmes of Lagos State University. The Programme is located at the Lagos State University, Epe Campus.

2.0 WHY PRE-DEGREE STUDIES (PDS)?

Candidates who sit at home to write JAMB will struggle for admission in the general admission process but PDS students who pass their JAMB will secure admission on the PDS quota provided by the Lagos State University.

2.1 ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

(a) Candidates must have Credits Pass in at least three (3) subjects (i. e. any of Mathematics, English Language, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Government, Economics, Literature in English, Christian Religious Studies (CRS). Islamic Religious Studies (IRS) and Accounting) in the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, GCE or NECO at NOT more than two (2) sittings.

(b) Candidates who meet the admission requirements will be invited for a written qualifying examination.

The subjects to be offered are:

1. Mathematics

2. English Language

3. Physics

4. Chemistry

5. Biology

6. Government

7. Economics

8. Literature in English

9. Christian Religious Studies (CRS)

10. Islamic Religious Studies (IRS)

11. Accounting

3.0 CRITERIA FOR TRANSITING TO 100 LEVEL:

For transition to 100 Level, each candidate is expected to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and also OBTAIN the minimum JAMB Cut Off Mark for the University Admission, as well as comply with the University Screening Test as may be prescribed. In addition, all CANDIDATES with deficiencies in their O’level result are to REGISTER for WAEC and /or NECO, and are expected to pass all the relevant deficient subjects. Successful Candidates are eligible to be allocated to the 100 Level Courses of related Faculties/Schools/College: Engineering, Science, Management Sciences, Education, Social Sciences, Law, Agriculture, Transport, Mass Communication, Nursing, Dentistry and College of Medicine, at the end of the Programme.

THE CURRENT PERFORMANCE

The performance of our current Pre-Degree Candidates in the 2022 UTME is proof that their exposure to rigourous teaching and CBT practice were responsible for tremendous success both in quality and quantity. 79,7% had 200 and above.

4.0 METHOD OF APPLICATION:

A. ONLINE PAYMENT

i. Prospective candidates should visit https://www.lasu.edu.ng and point to STUDENT. Then click on NEW APPLICANT. Scroll down and click on LASU-PDS to pre-enroll an get an application number. On getting the application number, you will be re-directed to the LASU E-payment portal (https://www.lasu.edu.ng/epyment) for the payment of application fee of Fifteen Thousand Naira (N15,000:00) only for the 2022/2023 LASU Pre–Degree Studies.

ii. After payment, Candidates should proceed to register online.

5.0 CLOSING DATE:

Six (6) weeks from the date of this publication.

6.0 DATE FOR QUALIFYING EXAMINATION AND INTERVIEW:

The date for the Qualifying Examination and Interview for the Successful Candidates for the 2022/2023 Calendar Year, will be announced later.

7.0 DISCLAIMER:

Any applicant who pays money to any individual/other account / or through other means aside from the one above, does so, to his/her own disadvantage.

8.0 GENERAL INFORMATION:

The programme is residential. Candidates offered admission into the programme will be accommodated at the Epe Campus of the Lagos State University. Candidates are to visit: www.lasu.edu.ng for more information about the programme.

SIGNED

Mr. Mohammed, O. AMUNI

Registrar and Secretary to Council

History of Egbado People of Ogun State

History of Egbado People of Ogun State

The Egbado appear to have migrated - possibly from the Ketu, Ile-Ife, or Oyo - to their current area early in the 18th century.

Egbado towns, most importantly Ilaro, Ayetoro, Afon, Imeko, Ipokia and Igbogila, were established in the 18th century to take advantage of the slave trade routes from the inland Oyo empire to the coast at Porto-Novo.

Other towns were Ilobi and Ijanna, which were strategic in protecting the flanks of the slaving routes. The Egbados' were subject to the rule of the Oyo kingdom, which managed them via governor Onisare of Ijanna.

The Oyo were unable to deploy their cavalry force to protect the routes, due to tsetse fly and lack of horse-fodder and thus had to rely on the Egbado people to manage the routes. 

The historians Akinjogbin, Morton-Williams and Smith all agree that by the early 18th century this route to the coast was heavily engaged in slave trading, and that slaves were the mainstay of the Oyo economy.

The Egbado later achieved a fragile independence after the fall of the Oyo kingdom, but were subject to frequent attacks from other groups such as the slave-raiding Dahomey (who seized, among others, Princess Sara Forbes Bonetta), and various tribes who wished to force open their own slave-trading routes to the sea.

Ilaro and Ijanna towns had been destroyed by the 1830s. By the 1840s the Egbado had come under the control of the adjacent Egba group, who used the Egbado territory to forge routes to Badagry and the port of Lagos.

By the 1860s the Egba abandoned the route because the British were actively using their formidable navy to try to abolish the slave trade. Consequently, the Egba expelled British missionaries and traders from the area in 1867.

After 1890 the Egbado asked for a British protectorate and got a small armed garrison, thus becoming independent of the Egba. The area became part of the British Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914, as Egbado Division in Abeokuta Province. 

The administrative headquarters were later transferred away, after the creation of the new Ogun State subsumed the old Abeokuta Province.

The modern Egbado/Yewa 

In 1995 the Egbado chose to rename themselves the "Yewa", after the name of the Yewa River that passes through the area they inhabit. They are primarily agriculturalists, but there is some artisan and textile processings.

They are located mainly in the areas of: Ado-Odo/Ota, Ipokia, Yewa South, Yewa North, Imeko Afon, and part of Abeokuta North.

There were complaints that the system of patronage and nepotism in Nigerian politics has caused the area to be neglected in terms of investment[citation needed].

The area developed a popular style of music, called Bolojo, in the 1970s. The population level is uncertain, but may be  around 400,000.

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SHETTIMA KASHIM IBRAHIM: THE LAST CIVILIAN GOVERNOR OF NORTHERN NIGERIA

 SHETTIMA KASHIM IBRAHIM: THE LAST CIVILIAN GOVERNOR OF NORTHERN NIGERIA

Kashim Ibrahim was the first and last indigenous civilian governor of the Northern Region of Nigeria until the military coup of January 15, 1966.

Undoubtedly, one of the most turbulent times for Sir Kashim Ibrahim was when he had to act as a mediator during the power tussle between the Sardauna of Sokoto and Emir of Kano in 1963 which saw the latter banished to Azare, present-day, Bauchi State. As the last civilian Governor of Northern Nigeria, he instituted many reforms and saw to the growth of Northern Nigeria until his tenure was terminated in the January coup of 1966.

✔Early Life and Education

Sir Kashim Ibrahim was born at Yerwa, the old quarter of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, to Ibrahim Lakanmi on June 10, 1910. Born into the aristocracy of the famous Kingdom of Borno, Kashim Ibrahim, a Kanuri man, attended Koranic school, necessary for the traditional office of Shettima for which he was groomed by his father. He was to take this office (overseer of traditional judicial officers) in 1935 and became known as Shettima Kashim Ibrahim from then on.

Kashim Ibrahim proceeded to Borno Provincial School and then, from 1925 to 1929, to the famous Katsina Teacher Training college, now Barewa College, Zaria, where almost all the prominent Western-educated men of the first generation in northern Nigeria went. He qualified as a teacher there and then taught at the Borno Provincial School.

He became a visiting Teacher from 1938 to 1947 and an Education Officer from 1947 to 1949. His educational works included considerable expansion of schools in Borno, the creation of the Maiduguri Teachers’ College in 1952, and the writing of primary school textbooks in Kanuri and the English languages. Sir Kashim Ibrahim believed so greatly in Western education, which he made sure all his children received.

✔Career

Shettima Kashim, as he was always known then, naturally became one of the more prominent Northern Region politicians. Among the founders of the Northern People’s Congress, NPC, he was elected to the Northern Region House of Assembly in 1951 and from there to the Federal House of Representatives, where he served from 1952 to 1955. Later, he was in the Federal Senate.

He was the Federal Minister of Social Services in 1952-1953 and a Federal Minister of Education from 1953 to 1955. In 1955 he joined Sir Ahmadu Bello’s Northern Regional Government in Kaduna as Minister of Social Welfare, Cooperatives, and Surveys.

In 1956, however, he returned to Maiduguri to assume the traditional office of Waziri of the Emirate of Borno after two previous Waziris had been forced to resign as a result of scandals in the Borno local administration. He carried out very necessary reforms in the traditional local government.

In 1960, he was pioneer chairman of the provisional council of the University of Northern Nigeria, later Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, for the two years before the new university opened in 1962. Supported by Sir Ahmadu Bello, he laid solid foundation for the University in Zaria.

✔Governor of Northern Nigeria

In 1962, he was appointed the first Nigerian Governor of the Northern Region succeeding Sir Gawain Westray Bell (1909-1995) and was Knighted by the Queen of England in the same year. Unfortunately, that rule ended with Nigeria’s first military coup d’état of January 15, 1966. Kashim Ibrahim was arrested but later released unharmed by the coup plotters. He remained indoors in Maiduguri thereafter without attending any public functions.

✔Kashim Ibrahim Death

Though, Sir Shettima Kashim Ibrahim later served as Chancellor of the University of Ibadan from 1966 to 1977, and then as chancellor of the University of Lagos from 1977 to 1984, he did not return to politics.

He was denied his pension as a former Governor, acquired little material wealth and had only one house in Maiduguri, of which the larger part he donated for schooling.

Sir Shettima Kashim Ibrahim died on Wednesday, July 25, 1990 in Maiduguri. He was 80.

Many places, institutions and monuments were named after him, one of which is the Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, Maiduguri, Borno State.

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HISTORY OF BADAGRY

HISTORY OF BADAGRY

Badagry, a coastal community in Lagos State, prides itself as cradle of civi­lization in Nigeria. Believed to have been founded in 1425 A.D, the town derived its name from the fusion of the name of its founder, a famous farm­er known as Agbedeh and the word “Greme”, which means farm in Ogu (Egun) language. Originally, the name of the town which is situated between the city of Lagos, and the bor­der of Republic of Benin at Seme was said to have evolved from the dual corruption of Agbedegreme (which means Agbedeh’s farm in “Ogu” lan­guage) to Agbedagari and from Agbedagari to Badagry by Yoruba settlers and European slave traders respectively.

Badagry is a monarchy headed by the Wheno Aholuship, a king­ship head by the Akran of Badagry and his seven white cap high chiefs. The white cap chiefs administer the eight quarters which Badagry is di­vided into. These divisions are Aho­vikoh, Boekoh, Jegba, Posukoh, Awhanjigo, Asago, Whalako and Ganho. These quarters and the fam­ilies that ruled them played promi­nent roles in the slave trade business with the Europeans and Brazilians.

Around 1600, the ancient city of Badagry was reputed as a thriving community for trade in salt. But this legitimate trade soon gave way to the obnoxious slave trade and for its first four hundred years of exis­tence, slave trade dominated all oth­er commercial interests in Badagry. The town became host to European slave traders led by George Fre­emingo, a Portuguese slave mer­chant who came to Badagry around 1660s. By 1740 Badagry had be­come a thriving town for slave trade. It grew to an important com­mercial centre flourishing on the export of slaves through the creeks and lagoon.

Effort to stop the obnoxious trade received a major boost when the treaty for the abolition of slave trade was signed in March 1852 be­tween England and Badagry chiefs. Some cannons of war were donat­ed to the chiefs to be placed at the coastal area to fight other European countries that were still coming to get slaves. However, the trade con­tinued illegally and the export of slaves steadily increased. The Bra­zilians became the major slave mer­chants during this period. Howev­er, in 1888 the last ship left Badagry to Brazil and this marked the end of the trade in Badagry, Brazil and around the world.

From the 1840s, following the suppression of slave trade Badagry declined significantly and would later become a major site of Chris­tian missionary work. Christiani­ty was first preached in Nigeria in Badagry in 1842 by Rev Thomas Birch Freeman, who equally cele­brated the first Christmas in Nigeria the following year. The site where Christianity was first preached then is now known as the Agiya Tree Monument. The 160 ft tall Agiya tree was felled by a heavy wind­storm in 1959. To underscore the significance of this site, the Agiya Tree Monument was set up on the same parcel of land where the tree stood.

The first educational system in Nige­ria as a British colony started in Badagry where the first primary school was estab­lished by the Wesleyan Mission (Meth­odist Church) in 1843 and named Nurs­ery of Infant Church which later became St. Thomas’ Anglican Nursery and Pri­mary School, founded by Rev. Golmer of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in 1845 and operated inside the first storey building in Badagry.

A number of other historical facilities including educational institutions later sprang up in Badagry until 1955 when the missionaries left the town uncere­moniously due to a misunderstanding between them and the natives. In 1863, Badagry was annexed by the United Kingdom and incorporated into the La­gos Colony. In 1901 it became a part of Nigeria.

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MEET THE FIRST UNIVERSITY GRADUATE FROM NORTHERN NIGERIA; ABDULAZIZ ATTA.

 MEET THE FIRST UNIVERSITY GRADUATE FROM NORTHERN NIGERIA; ABDULAZIZ ATTA.

Abdul Aziz Atta was born on April 1st, 1920 at Lokoja. His father was Alhaji Ibrahim Onoruoiza Atta, a paramount traditional Ruler in Ebira land, Kwara State{Now Kogi State}.

He was educated at Okene Elementary and Middle Schools between 1926 and 1935. In 1936 he entered Achimota College, Ghana, and studied there until 1944 when he went to Balliol College, Oxford , England, graduating in 1947 in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Atta returned to Nigeria in 1948 and joined the government service as Cadet Administrative Officer in the then Unified Nigeria Public Service. He served in Calabar, Opobo, Ikot-Ekpene and former Southern Cameroons, all then under the Eastern Region. He continued to serve in the Eastern Region even after the division of the Public Service.

He was District Officer in Umuahia before becoming the Private Secretary of Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe , Premier of the Eastern region. Thereafter, he was Secretary to the Agent-General for the Region in Britain; Training Officer in the Regional Ministry of Finance, Enugu; and Secretary for Anang Province. He moved to the Federal Public Service as Administrative Officer, Class II, in 1958 and was promoted to Permanent Secretary in 1960, and headed in turn the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Communications, Ministry of Industries and Ministry of Finance. 

He occupied the important post of Permanent Secretary, Finance, from 1966 through the years of civil war with all its effect on the country's economy[3] . In December 1970, he was appointed Administrative Officer (Principal Grade) and became Secretary to the Federal Military Government and Head of the Federal Civil Service.

He had four daughters and a son by his wife Iyabo Atta.

One of his brothers, Alhaji Abdul Malik Atta was Nigeria's first High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Atta died on 12th June, 1972 at the Royal Free Hospital, London, after two years in the highest administrative position in Nigeria, and was buried in Kuroko.

May Allah grant him Aljana firdausi.

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THE STORY OF ALAJO-SOMOLU

 THE STORY OF ALAJO-SOMOLU

Late ALPHAEUS TAIWO OLUNAIKE popularly known as "ALAJO SOMOLU".

Alphaeus Taiwo Olunaike is not a name that many Nigerians are familiar with. But once you mention Alajo Somolu, the eyes of millions of Nigerians will light up. Yes, they are more familiar with this name!

He was born on September 16, 1915 in the tiny city of Isan-Oyin (now called Isonyin); close to Ijebu-Musin and Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria. Alajo Somolu was just three years of age when he lost his father. However, he was able to proceed with his education. He started his primary education at the Emmanuel Primary School, Ijebu-Isonyin. He had not finished his education at his small hamlet when his paternal uncle, Torimoro came and took him to Lagos where he was able to further his education. He arrived in Lagos and he was enrolled at the St. Johns School, Aroloya. From there, he proceeded to the Christ Church Cathedral School, Lagos, and finished there in 1934.

Two years after his education, he was enrolled as an apprentice under a tailor named Rojaye. He was a tailor-in-training for nine good years before he got his ‘freedom’. When he started working as a tailor, he noticed that the income was not just going to be sustainable for him and he needed an alternative and fast.Therefore, when the younger brother of his late dad, Torimoro , was going to Cameroon on a commercial trip, Alajo Somolu decided he would also seize the opportunity and go along. And so it was that in 1950, Alajo Somolu went to Cameroon. 

Upon reaching there, he unleashed the ferocious entrepreneurial spirit that was in him. A very determined fellow, he tried his hands on various tasks and duties in Cameroon. He sold goods and newspapers; tried his hands on many ventures.

In Cameroon, one of his neighbours was a

thrift collector and told our young friend about the business. The details immediately caught his fancy. As a result, by the time he returned to Nigeria in 1954, he already had it in mind that he was going to start the business of ajo gbigba (thrift collection). He was 39 at that time. Before he left Cameroon, he took with him a copy of the thrift collection card used by his Cameroonian neighbour.

Upon reaching Nigeria, he made his own copies of the card and he named his own venture ‘ Popular Daily Alajo Somolu‘.

In September 1954, Alajo Somolu went out for the first time to collect thrift from his clients. He had launched his business and he had great hopes. Unfortunately, not a single person patronised him that first day. Many of the market women even taunted him saying he would simply collect their money and vanish into the thin air. But he was not discouraged with the negative atmosphere. He persisted in riding his bicycle from stall to stall, from shop to shop until some of the market women pitied him and decided to give him a trial and gave steady contributions of some kobos.

At the end of the first month, all his clients got their money complete with not a penny missing! Baba Alajo too also made his own profit and he was doubly delighted: his clients had renewed hope in him and the new business was actually more lucrative than the tailoring he was doing. With time, the news of his honesty, transparency and hard work spread and his clients swelled in number. Baba Alajo’s prosperity too also shone! He built his first house at No 10, Odunukan Street in Ijesa. He later sold the house and built another in the Owotutu area, Bariga, Lagos.

In a shortwhile, his fame spread like wildfire. He was the thrift collector for the entire axis covering Awolowo Market, Oyingbo Market, Olaleye, Mile 12, Ojuwoye, Baba Oloosa, Sangross and, of course, in Somolu (Shomolu) from whence he got his nickname. His customers fell in love with him for his truthfulness, his ability to save them from financial ruins by providing life-saving loans and most importantly, for his outstanding memory.

He did not use a calculator and there were no computers either. The most amazing part of his prodigious memory was the thoroughness of it. He did not only pay back the exact amount to his clients, he also paid them back with the same notes and coins that they contributed with! He was so exact that if a client should write down the number on his notes, he would be astonished to get the same notes back at the end of the month. Such brilliance!

Then, people started saying “ORI E PE TI ALAJO SOMOLU, TO FI ODIDI ODUN META GBAJO LAI KO ORUKO ENI KANKAN SILE, TI KO SI SIWO FUN ENIKENI”.

– “Your brain is as sharp as that of Alajo Somolu, who collected thrift for three years and paid back all his customers without writing down a single name and without making a single mistake with the payment”. Anytime one of his vehicles returned after a trip of thrift collection, it would be checked. If the car had depreciated to the point that it is no longer economically viable, he sold them off and bought bicycles instead. Therefore, when people noticed that one of his vehicles was missing and a brand-new vehicle had appeared instead, they would say: “Alajo Somolu has sold his car to buy a bicycle!” “ORI E PE BI AALAJO SOMOLU, TO TA MOTO, TO FI RA KEKE ”.

But Baba Alajo Somolu knew what he was doing. To him, there was little point in maintaining cars that no longer brought in profit? It was better to sell it and buy more Raleigh bicycles to access all the hitherto inaccessible areas. It is worthy of note that many of his customers stayed with him for decades and many up to the time he died. They described him as a very friendly, reliable and honest man.

He was also praised for his willingness to help others. When he died, one of the other thrift collectors in the area named Oladini Olatunji gave this testimonial. He said that there was a time he ran into financial trouble with his business. This became a huge debt on him. He said that it was baba Alajo Somolu that helped him pay off the entire debt and saved him from bankruptcy. Furthermore, this man never told a soul. For this and many more, all other thrift collectors looked up to him as their father figure and even held the alajo (thrift collector) meetings in his home.

Alajo Somolu continued his job with joy until 2010 when he was 95 years old. At this age, his children pleaded with him to retire. Much as he tried to, customers continued to bring their monthly payments to his home!

On the 11th of August, 2012, Baba Alajo Somolu breathed his last. Surrounded by family and clients who had become family, he passed due to old age. 

A legend indeed!

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143 years ago today in 1879, Prince Imperial Napoléon IV, heir to the Bonaparte monarchy is killed during the Anglo-Zulu War.

 143 years ago today in 1879, Prince Imperial Napoléon IV, heir to the Bonaparte monarchy is killed during the Anglo-Zulu War.

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte was born in Paris during the Second French Empire. His father Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte was the nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte and seized power in 1852 anointing himself Emperor as Napoléon III. The Second French Empire under his leadership doubled the size of its overseas empire and repaired relations with Great Britain. However in July 1870 Napoléon III would enter into a war with Prussia with no allies and an inferior army. He would be captured in battle and Paris would abandon him declaring the Third Republic of France. The Bonaparte family would go into exile in England where the young Prince Imperial Napoléon IV would receive military training.

 

The young Prince was beloved and popular within political elite circles. He was a serious contender to marry one of Queen Victoria’s daughters, but the Prince first desired to experience military action. After applying great pressure he would get the opportunity to travel to South Africa and assist the British in their ongoing war with the Zulu people. He was attached to the staff of a Colonel in the Royal Engineers but the Prince’s eagerness for action found him volunteering to go along with reconnaissance missions as often as he could. Concerned for his safety, the British assigned personal guards to protect the young reckless Prince.

 

On the morning of June 1st the Prince insisted the reconnaissance mission planned for that day go earlier without full strength. The party dismounted and was resting in an abandoned Zulu village when suddenly 40 Zulu warriors ambushed them. The men escorting the Prince mounted their horses and did not attempt to fight, fleeing for their lives. Napoléon’s horse was spooked and began to run off before he could be fully mounted in the saddle. The Prince held onto a strap as the horse carried him to safety but the strap broke and the horse ran off with his carbine and a sword that belonged to Napoléon I. His right arm was trampled and he pulled out a revolver with his left hand and began to run away, but four Zulu warriors rushed the Prince and one of their assegai was thrown through his leg. The Prince pulled the assegai from his leg and tried to fight with it using his trampled arm while shooting at the oncoming Zulus. He was overwhelmed and killed, and when his body was recovered it had 18 assegai wounds.

 

The Prince’s death sent shockwaves throughout England and France. He was only 23 years old and buried next to his father. His grieving mother made a pilgrimage to the location he was killed. And the best chance for a restoration of the Bonapartist Monarchy had died with him.

 

[Online References]

 

(https://www.historynet.com/the-death-of-a-prince-louis-napoleon-and-the-tragedy-of-the-zulu-war.htm )

 

(https://www.historyandheadlines.com/june-1-1879-the-last-bonaparte/ )

 

(https://www.napoleon.org/en/young-historians/napodoc/napoleon-eugene-louis-jean-joseph-bonaparte-prince-imperial-1856-1879/ )

Artwork by Paul Jamin

Authored by R.E. Foy

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BRIEF HISTORY AND AMAZING FACTS ABOUT IJEBU PEOPLE

 BRIEF HISTORY AND AMAZING FACTS ABOUT IJEBU PEOPLE

The name “Ijebu-Ode”, according to history, is a com­bination of the names of two persons namely, AJEBU and OLODE who were conspicuous as leaders of the original settlers and founders of the town. OLODE, was said to be a relative of OLU-IWA, the first Ruler of Ijebu. It is diffi­cult to say for certain which of them {AJEBU and OLODE} preceded the other, but tradition has it that Ajebu, Olode and Ajana met on this land, which was uninhabited dense forest. They consulted Ifa Oracle to determine the actual spot on which each one should make his place of abode.. The Oracle directed that Ajebu should go and settle on a spot now known as IMEPE.   

OLODE and AJANA to remain together at a place known today as ITA AJANA.The grave of Ajebu is still marked by a tomb erected by his descendants at Imepe, near Oyingbo market on the Ejinrin Road. Olode's grave is also marked at Olode Street at Ita Ajana Quarter, Ijebu-Ode. The two persons more conspicu­ous among the original settlers being AJEBU and OLODE.The town derived its name from their names, hence "IJEBU-ODE."

Ijebu-Ode town was divided into two main wards namely, Iwade and Porogun. Iwade was divided into two -- Iwade Oke (also called Ijasi) and Iwade Isale; that is, Upper and Lower Iwade (North and South). By this division, there are three wards in Ijebu-Ode town.That was why the town was spoken of as "Iwade - Porogun, ljasi, Keta" unto this day: Iwade oke, lwade Isale and Porogun. Each . Ward was divided into QUARTERS known as "Ituns.” Iwade Oke has four quarters (Ituns); Iwade Isale has thirteen Ouarters (Ituns) and Porogun has eight Quarters (Ituns), making a total of twenty-five (25) Quarters.  

Each Quarter had its own Quarter Head, who was known as 'Oloritun" - the head man of the Quarter. All of them combined were spoken of, or referred to, as the 'Oloritun Medogbon" (twenty-five Olorituns-- Quarter Heads) and they constituted the ancient and traditional IJEBU-ODE TOWN COUNCIL.

Each Quarter Head represents and expresses the views of the people of his Quarter with whom he holds regular meetings to discuss matters affecting general pub­lic interest. The meetings also serve as tribunals in settling minor civil matters.

The traditional twenty-five Quarters of I Ijebu-ode are: 

IWADE OKE 

Ljasi, Ita Ntebo, Odo Egbo, Ita Afin  

IWADE ISALE 

Idomowo, Lyanro, Idele, Ijada, Ipamuren, Ikanigbo, lsoku, Odo Esa, jAgunsebi, Imupa, Ita Ajana

POROGUN

Idewon, Mobayegun, Mobegelu, Ltalapo, ldogi, Isasa, Idomowo, Muja, Ojofa

TRADITIONAL RULERS IN IJEBU-ODE AND ITS ENVIRONMENT                       

* The Orimolusi of Ijebu-Ode

* The Ebunmawe of Ago-Iwoye

* The Limeri of Awa

* The Alaporu of Ilaporu

* The Oloru of Oru-Ijebu

* The Sopenlukale of Oke Sopen

* The Bejeroku of Oke-Agbo

* The Olokine of Ojowo

* The Keegbo of Atikori

* The Abija Parako of Japara

FEW INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT IJEBU PEOPLE 

1. Chief Obafemi Awolowo was the first individual in the modern era to be named Leader of the Yorubas (Asiwaju Omo Oodua)

2. The richest black woman in the world, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija, is an Ijebu woman from Ikorodu, Lagos (waterside Ijebu).

3. Ijebu man was the first Nigerian to play in the English premier league in the early 60s.

4. Ijebu people are famous for Egungun, Agemo, jigbo, Ileya festivals etc.

5. The first people to invent money made from cowry shells, later made Coins called “PANDORO”, which became acceptable through Africa and Europe.

6. Mike Adenuga, an Ijebu man from Ijebu-Igbo, was the first Nigerian to single-handedly own Oil, Mining and Telecommunication (GLO).

7. Ijebu man, late Haruna Ishola, was the first musician to perform outside the shores of Nigeria.

8. Ijebu men, Chief S. O. Shonibare & Chief Shakirudeen Olarewaju Kazeem (Shokas) were the first Nigerians to own private individual housing estates (called Shonibare estate in Lagos. And Shokas Estate/Bobagunwa Castle) of about 40 mansions in Ijebu-Igbo.

9. Ijebu has produced so many musical icons like Haruna Ishola (Ijebu-Igbo), Y.K. Ajadi (Ijebu-Igbo), Popular Jingo (Ijebu-Igbo), Batuli Alake (Ijebu-Igbo), Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, K1 (Ijebu-Ode), Adewale Ayuba (Ikenne), Musiliu Haruna Ishola (Ijebu-Igbo), Kolade Onanuga (Ijebu-Ode), Salawa Abeni (Ijebu-Ode), Wale Thomson (Ijebu-Igbo), etc.

10. The first black man to publish an indigenous Bible with dictionary and concordance was an Ijebu man (Rev. Dr Basil Kayode Balogun ) from Ijebu-Igbo.

11. The Doyen of Theatre, Late Chief Hubert Adedeji Ogunde, was an Ijebu man from Ososa.

12. Ijebu nation has more than 15 tertiary institutions which include OSU/OOU, TASUED, Babcock, Hallmark, South-West, Kinston (Universities), Grace, AAP, Gaposa, Oscotech, Pogil (Polytechnics), Tasce (College of Education), etc.

13. Do you know that Ijebu land (Ijagun) hosts the 1st university of education in Nigeria?

14. Do you know that Ijebu nation share one-third of entire Lagos state starting from Ikorodu to Ketu, Somolu, Palmgrove, Oshodi, Yaba, Epe, Ikeja, etc.?

15. Also, do you know that the Itshekiris (Delta state of Nigeria) are Ijebus?

16. Ijebu is the only tribe in Nigeria that has its origin from the Biblical days.

17. According to the Biblical account; the Jebusites were a Canaanite tribe who inhabited and built Jerusalem before its conquest by King David.

18. Ijebu was the first indigenous Clerk to the European Missionaries.

What a great Nation!

* The Regional capital is Ijebu Ode!!

* The Commercial capital is Sagamu!!!

* The Spiritual capital is Ijebu Igbo!!!!

Lastly, The Paramount ruler & Awujale of Ijebu land is the longest-reigning traditional ruler in the history of Nigeria—-62 years…(and still counting).