Although Africa is regarded as the poorest continent in the world, yet we can’t but identify numerous business magnates and self-made richest billionaires who rose against all odds and imprint their footsteps on sands of time. The list of African richest people below and how they have amassed great wealth in a continent regarded as the poorest in the world arrests the misconception that all Africans are subjected to poverty.
Chief Samuel Ládòkè Akíntọ́lá, otherwise known as SLA was born in Ogbomosho. Samuel Ladoke Akintola was a Nigerian politician, lawyer, aristocrat and the last premier of the Western Region. He was also the 13th Aare Ona Kakanfo (generalissimo) of Yorubaland
On March 18, 1907, Dr. and Mrs George Green arrived Ogbomosho where they started the Ogbomoso Baptist Hospital [Now Bowen University Teaching Hospital (BUTH)]
THE ORIGIN OF YORÙBÁ’S “GUDU GUDU MEJE AT YA YA MEFA” Some Ibadan Chiefs went to a meeting with an Oyinbo District Officer. In the course of the meeting, the Oyinbo man was so happy with what the Ibadan Chiefs had to report via an interpreter and he kept saying good good good good … Read more
biography of His Royal Majesty Alayeluwa Oba Jimoh Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade III JP, CON, is an intruiging one. To be born into royal lineage does not confer automatic kingship status on all princes, princes are born but kings are made through divine intervention. His Royal Majesty Oba Jimoh Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade III JP, CON, Soun of Ogbomosholand was born on May 27, 1926- a month after the birth of another monarch, Queen Elizabeth II of England.
Did you know that the concept of Yoruba Nollywood movies showing that Babalawo foresee through walls, clothes or even pot is wrong? Read through to know the truth. It is rare to watch Yoruba movies especially village movies and not see a Babalawo. Ifa is an integral part of Yoruba culture, hence movies about … Read more
Even in the colonial time, Ogbomoso was fully represented in the struggle for emancipation. Only a few people know the fact that an Ogbomoso man, Nathaniel David [ND] Oyerinde was the first Nigerian professor. By 1904, he was a teacher at the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary [NBTS], Ogbomoso, also, he later found himself in politics … Read more
None of Alaafin Abiodun’s numerous children succeeded him on the throne. Aole, a tall and handsome. Prince, a cousin of the late King was elected in his stead. But unfortunately, Alaafin Aole Arogangan’s reign was a very unhappy one; it marked the commencement of the decline of the empire until it terminated in the tragic end of the fifth King after him.
LADI KWALI, the woman at the back of the ₦20 remains the only significant woman on the Nigerian currency. She was an exceptional Nigerian potter. Born in the small village of Kwali, of the present Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, in 1925, Other historians indicate her date of birth is actually 1920. She was born to Gwari region where pottery was an indigenous female tradition.
OJO AGUNBAMBARU was one of the surviving sons of the renowned Basorun Gaa. He had escaped to the Bariba country at the general massacre of Gaa’s children and relatives During the reign of Aláàfin Abiodun. Hearing of Aláàfin Aole Arogangan’s death and the present state of the deteriorating Oyo-Ile (Old Oyo Empire), he thought there could never be a more favourable opportunity for him both to avenge his father’s death, and also to obtain his title without opposition.
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