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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 13:23:50 GMT
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.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 13:25:29 GMT
James Churchill Vaughan
 James Churchill Vaughan (1893-1937) was a graduate of the University who became a prominent political activist in Nigeria. Born in Lagos, Vaughan was one of the five foundation students at King's College there. He came to Glasgow in 1913 to study Medicine, graduating MB, ChB in 1918. He returned to Nigeria where he set up a private clinic during the 1920s and introduced free medical services for the destitute. Vaughan was a vocal critic of the British Colonial Administration and was active in several nationalist organisations in Nigeria and the Gold Coast (now Ghana). In 1934, with other leading nationalists, he founded a political party called the Lagos Youth Movement, which became known as the Nigerian Youth Movement in 1936. In 1938, the year after Vaughan's death, the NYM won the Lagos seats in the country's Legislative Council.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 13:26:37 GMT
Nathaniel Akinremi Fadipe
Nigerian academic researcher and Pan-African activist, was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1893. Writer and one of the lesser known Pan-Africanist leaders born in Nigeria, the son of a Baptist mission preacher. Fadipe was brought up in the church missionary school. He became the personal secretary to the manager of Barclays Bank, Lagos. He travelled to Britain and earned a BA degree at the London School of Economics in 1929. He was subsequently awarded fellowships to study at Woodbrooke College in Birmingham and then for his MA at Columbia University, New York. His dissertation entitled ‘A Yoruba Town: A Sociological Study of Abeokuta’, was the first study of its kind by an African academic on Nigeria. Fadipe subsequently took up a teaching post at Achimota College in the Gold Coast but returned to London after his contract was not renewed.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 13:28:54 GMT
Isaac Ladipo Oluwole
 Isaac Ladipo Oluwole (1892–1953) was a Nigerian doctor who made important improvements to the public health services in Nigeria. Isaac Ladipo Oluwole was born around 1892, son of the Anglican bishop Isaac Oluwole. He and James Churchill Vaughan were both among the pioneer students at King's College, Lagos when it opened in September 1909. Oluwole was the first Senior Prefect of the School. Later Oluwole and Vaughan both went to the University of Glasgow in 1913 to study Medicine. The two students were conspicuous by their colour, and were subject to racial prejudice. Oluwole was called "Darkness visible" after the phrase from Milton's Paradise Lost. After graduating as MB, ChB in 1918, Oluwole returned to Nigeria. He went into general practice in Abeokuta for a few years, then returned to Glasgow to take his DPH. In 1925 Oluwole was appointed the first African assistant Medical Officer of Health in Lagos. Oluwole founded the first School of Hygiene in Nigeria, at Yaba, Lagos, providing training to Sanitary Inspectors from all parts of Nigeria. On graduation they obtained the Diploma of the Royal Institute of Public Health, London. He re-organised sanitary inspection procedures in the port of Lagos to control the spread of bubonic plague.The plague, breaking out in unsanitary shanty towns in Lagos, caused many deaths between 1924 and 1930. Many of the slums were demolished, forcing their inhabitants to resettle into the unregulated suburbs. Among other achievements, Oluwole opened the Massey Street Dispensary, reclaimed swampy islands to aid in malaria control and built a new abattoir to improve food hygiene.[4] Oluwole started the first school health services in Lagos in 1925.[7] He introduced regular sanitary inspections and vaccinations of children.[5] Oluwole was appointed Medical Officer of Health in 1936. In 1940 Oluwole was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE). When he died in 1953 he was recognized as the father of public health in Nigeria
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 13:30:11 GMT
Anthony Saka Agbaje Anthony Saka Agbaje was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, son of Salami, a successful businessman. Agbaje enrolled at the University in 1925 to study Medicine, graduating MB ChB in 1930. During his time at Glasgow, he was awarded Athletics Blue for Boxing in 1929, a talent he would continue in Nigeria, becoming an executive member of the Nigerian Boxing Board of Control (NBBOfC) at its inauguration in 1949. Dr Agbaje would also take on his father's business, co-publishing the Western Echo newspaper in the 1940s.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 13:30:44 GMT
John Otunba Payne
Prince John Augustus Otunba Payne was a Nigerian administrator and diarist who was a prominent personality in Lagos during the nineteenth century. He was a Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Lagos and he also served as a registrar in various colonial departments such as the Police Court, the Chief Magistrate's Court, the Court of Civil and Criminal Justice and the Petty Debt court. He produced an annual West African and Lagos Almanac which published some historical notes. He was also the convener of a forum called the Society for the Propagation of Religious Education.
Payne was born in 1839, his father was from a royal house in Ijebu Ode. He was one of the earliest products of CMS Grammar School, Lagos. He was a close friend of James Johnson and was a layman and warden at Christ Church Cathedral, Lagos. He also counseled the Awujale of Ijebuland to allow Christian missionaries. Through his influence, a Christian preacher was allowed to preach in Ago Iwoye.
Payne was also noted for his writings in his annual almanac. One of his jottings includes the court appearance of ex Oba Dosunmu after being sub poenaed. Payne was charged with administering the solemn oath through an interpreter.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 13:31:49 GMT
Kofo Abayomi
Sir Kofoworola Adekunle Abayomi (10 July 1896 - 1 January 1979) was a Nigerian ophthalmologist who was one of the founders of the nationalist Lagos Youth Movement in 1934 and who went on to have a distinguished public service career.
Abayomi was born on the 10 July 1896 in Lagos. He was of Egba origin. He was educated at Methodist Boys High School Lagos and thereafter studied pharmacy at the Yaba Higher College, then attended the Medical School, University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1925. He was retained as a demonstrator for a period before he returned to Nigeria to work under Dr. Oguntola Sapara. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1930 to study tropical medicine and hygiene, and returned again in 1939 for a postgraduate course in ophthalmic surgery and medicine. As an African doctor with British training, Abayomi had to join the British Colonial Medical Service to make a living, and had to cope with British doctors who felt that Africans were inferior.
Abayomi was a founding member of the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) in 1933. The NYM was formed by members of the Lagos intelligentsia who were protesting the plan for Yaba College, which they considered would provide inferior education to Africans. The organization was originally called the Lagos Youth Movement but was renamed in 1936 to reflect its broader scope. Abayomi became President of the NYM on the death of Dr. James Churchill Vaughan in 1937. Abayomi was elected a member of the Legislative Council in 1938. When he resigned from both positions so he could go abroad for further studies, he precipitated a crisis. Rival candidates were Ernest Ikoli, an Ijo, and Samuel Akisanya, an Ijebu who was supported by Nnamdi Azikiwe. When the executive chose Ikoli as their candidate, both Akisanya and Azikiwe left the party, taking most of their followers with them
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 13:33:12 GMT
Herbert Macaulay
 Herbert Macaulay (1864-1945) was a Nigerian political leader. One of the first leaders of the Nigerian opposition to British colonial rule, he was also a civil engineer, journalist, and accomplished musician. Born in Lagos, Herbert Macaulay was the son of the Reverend Thomas Babington Macaulay, prominent Lagos missionary and educator, and the maternal grandson of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, first African bishop of the Niger Territory. Receiving his early education in the mission schools of Lagos, Macaulay in 1881 became a clerk in the Public Works Department in Lagos. He was recognized as a promising civil servant and in 1890 was awarded a government scholarship to study civil engineering in England, where he spent 3 years. Upon his return to Lagos he was appointed surveyor of crown lands for the colony of Lagos, a position he held until 1898, when he resigned the post
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 13:34:24 GMT
Sir Adetokunbo Ademola Adetokunbo Adegboyega Ademola, lawyer, born Abeokuta 1 February 1906, Chief Justice Western Region Nigeria 1955-58, Chief Justice of Nigeria 1958-72, PC 1963, Kt 1957, Honorary Bencher Middle Temple 1959-93, KBE 1963, Chancellor University of Nigeria 1975-93, Chairman Commonwealth Foundation 1978-93, married 1939 Kofoworola Moore (three sons, two daughters), died Lagos 29 January 1993. IN THE first military coup d'etat in Nigeria in 1966, it was Adetokunbo Ademola who, with the British High Commissioner in Lagos, saved Nigeria from disintegration. When Major-General Thomas Aguyi Ironsi, an Ibo, who had become head of state after the coup which ended the first Nigerian republic, was himself overthrown in a counter-coup led by northern officers, the intention of the north was to leave Nigeria. The northerners had already started sending their families across the river Niger back home, following the controversial statement made on national broadcast by Lt-Col Yakubu Gowon, who replaced Ironsi as head of state, that the basis for Nigerian unity was not there. Gowon was going to announce that the north was seceding from Nigeria, but, realising the damage this would cause, decided to cut his speech; the speech was edited, but badly edited; and that unfortunate phrase stayed in the broadcast. Ademola and the British High Commissioner saved Gowon and Nigeria by meeting with the northern leaders and successfully arguing that since the northeners had taken political control and were now in government, they had no reason to leave Nigeria. The northerners stayed in Nigeria. Ademola was born into a royal family as the son of the Alake of Abeokuta. His father, King Ladapo Ademola II, reigned in Abeokuta, an historic walled city of the Egbas in south-western Nigeria. Prince Ademola was brought up in his father's palace at Ake, and after his secondary schooling at St Gregory's Grammar School and King's College, both elite schools of Lagos, he was sent to England to study at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His father wanted him to be a medical doctor, but he rebelled and chose to read law. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1934. After his return to Nigeria he started his career as a crown counsel attached to the Crown Law Office in Lagos. In 1935 he was made an Administrative Officer at Enugu in the Eastern Region, and between 1936 and 1939 was in private practice in Lagos. He moved to the Bench as a magistrate in 1939, and a decade later was made a junior High Court judge. In 1955 he was appointed Chief Justice of Western Nigeria, the second largest of the three regions. The colonial government made Ademola Chief Justice of the whole country in 1958, following the abolition of the West African Court of Appeal (WACA), triggered by Ghanaian independence in 1957. Ademola's time as the chief judge of Nigeria spanned both the colonial and the independent eras, making him the bridge between the colonial era and Nigeria as an independent state. Together with Teslim Elias, who succeeded him as Chief Justice of Nigeria, Ademola founded the Nigerian Law School; before then Nigerians had to qualify in London. He was for many years chairman of the council for legal education in Nigeria and a member of the council of Buckingham University. An honorary bencher of the Middle Temple, he was made a Privy Counsellor in 1963, the first African to be so appointed. Ademola will be remembered for several controversial trials on which he presided in Nigeria including the case Lakanmi vs the Attorney General of Nigeria. In the aftermath of the Emergency in the Western Region in 1965 the assets of a Western Region government minister, deemed to have been acquired fraudulently, were confiscated by a decree enacted by the military government which had taken over power from the warring politicians. Ademola ruled that the court had power to review military decrees. Gowon's military government enacted another decree destroying the effects of the judgment and reiterating that the court could not review military decrees. Since that time, no court in Nigeria has ever upset a military decree again. Ademola exercised enormous influence outside the realms of the judiciary. In 1973 he was given the task by General Gowon of carrying out the census. Since independence Nigeria had been unable to conduct a successful census because of the acute rivalry between the three main ethnic groups in the country, the Hausa-Fulani in the north, Yoruba in the west, and the Ibo in the east, none of which could accept that another had a larger population . Ademola accepted the challenge but was defeated by it, and the result could not be announced. Ademola conceded recently that the census period was one of the most turbulent times of his life. Out of frustration he declared: 'It will take much more than a government to bring us together as one Nigeria.' Apart from being appointed KBE in 1957, he was decorated with the highest national award in Nigeria as the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON). He was the longest- serving chief justice in Nigeria's history. The only sad thing about his brilliant career is that he never wrote a memoir. When he was cornered by a reporter a few years ago and asked to suggest an epitaph for his tombstone, Adetokunbo Ademola said: 'In humility I came, in humility I left. I judged only as I saw just.'
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 13:36:26 GMT
Chief Obafemi Awolowo  Obafemi Awolowo, also known as Chief Obafemi Awolowo or Awo (born March 6, 1909, Ikenne, Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria—died May 9, 1987, Ikenne, Nigeria), Nigerian politician who was a strong and influential advocate of independence, nationalism, and federalism. He was also known for his progressive views concerning social welfare. Awolowo was born in Ikenne, then part of the British Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. The son of a peasant, Awolowo first studied to be a teacher and later worked as a clerk, trader, and newspaper reporter while organizing trade unions and participating in nationalist politics in his spare time. In the 1930s he became an active member of the Lagos Youth Movement—later the Nigerian Youth Movement—and rose to become its secretary for the Western Province. During that time he came to bemoan the ethnic divisions within the nationalist movement and the growing political inequalities between some of Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities and regions. Awolowo went to London in 1944 to study law, and while there he founded the Egbe Omo Oduduwa (Yoruba: “Society of the Descendants of Oduduwa”) to promote the culture and unity of the Yoruba people, one of the three largest ethnic groups in colonial Nigeria, and to ensure a secure future for them. During that period Awolowo also wrote the influential Path to Nigerian Freedom (1947), in which he made his case for the need of a federal form of government in an independent Nigeria to safeguard the interests of each ethnic nationality and region and to create a sustainable basis for Nigerian unity. He also called for rapid progress toward self-government. In 1947 Awolowo returned to Ibadan to practice law, and the following year he established the Egbe Omo Oduduwa in Nigeria. In 1950–51 he founded a political party, the Action Group, with some of the Egbe’s members as its nucleus, and in the process became the party’s first president. The party called for an immediate end to British rule and for the development of several social welfare programs. In 1951 the party won the first elections held in the Western Region, one of the colony’s three administrative divisions, and Awolowo later served as leader of government business and minister for local government structure, the latter for which he established elective councils. From 1954 to 1959, as premier of the Western Region, Awolowo worked to improve education, social services, and agricultural practices, implementing many progressive policies. Notably, his administration introduced programs that provided free health care for children and free universal primary education. The first television station in Africa was established in the Western Region by his administration as well. Meanwhile, he tried to build the Action Group into an effective nationwide party by making alliances with ethnic groups in other regions. Awolowo supported his party’s efforts to accelerate Nigeria’s progress toward self-government by pushing the British to commit to an early date for independence. After a disappointing showing in the hard-fought 1959 elections and after the two other major parties had formed a coalition, he became leader of the opposition in the federal House of Representatives. After Nigeria achieved independence in 1960, Awolowo began to modify his earlier position, leaning toward socialism and advocating a neutral foreign policy rather than his earlier pro-Western position. With dissension growing in his own party over both ideology and administration, Awolowo fought to maintain ascendancy. Although he managed to prevail at the annual party conference in 1962, one year later he was tried and convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the government and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was released after a military coup took place in July 1966—the second coup to occur that year. Later that year Awolowo was a member of the National Conciliation Committee, which attempted to mediate a rift between the federal government and the Igbo-dominated Eastern Region. Mediation attempts failed, and he eventually threw his support behind the federal government when the region seceded as the Republic of Biafra, sparking civil war (1967–70). During the conflict, Awolowo was federal commissioner for finance and vice chairman of the Federal Executive Council. In the mid-1970s he was chancellor of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) and Ahmadu Bello University. When the 12-year ban on political activity was lifted in 1978 in preparation for a return to civilian rule, Awolowo emerged as the leader of the Unity Party of Nigeria. He ran for president in the elections of 1979 and 1983 but was defeated both times by Shehu Shagari. Following a military coup at the end of 1983, parties were once again banned, and Awolowo retired from politics. An important figure in Nigerian history, Awolowo’s ideals and accomplishments continue to influence Nigerian politics. He wrote several books, including Awo: The Autobiography of Chief Obafemi Awolowo (1960) and Thoughts on Nigerian Constitution (1966).
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Post by Honorebu on Dec 24, 2015 19:27:55 GMT
Nice thread
Shymmex, the Julius Ojo pics are not showing
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 19:31:35 GMT
Nice thread
Shymmex , the Julius Ojo pics are not showing Are you mobile? They're showing on my laptop. |
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Post by Honorebu on Dec 24, 2015 19:32:17 GMT
Nice thread
Shymmex , the Julius Ojo pics are not showing Are you mobile? They're showing on my laptop. |
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 19:34:33 GMT
Are you mobile? They're showing on my laptop. They are showing on mine. |
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