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John Augustus Otunba-Payne (1839- 1906)

Lawyer, Writer.

Born in Sierra Leone a Prince of the Gbelegbuwa Royal Family of Ijebu-Ode. The name Payne is an anglicized version of Adepeyin his original surname. He moved to Lagos in 1862 and started work as a Police clerk.

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He later rose to become a prosecutor and the first indigenous Registrar of the Old Supreme Court. In 1881 Payne was commissioned to organize the first census in Lagos.
He also wrote several publications and was very influential. He owned the magnificent 'Orange House' mansion at Tinubu Square. On Thursday 20 December 1906 Payne was tragically murdered by unknown assailants at home. The murder was never solved.
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Who Killed Ayinde Bakare

Source: "Drum," July 1974

On October 1, 1972, Ayinde Bakare, the original king of Juju, had an afternoon engagement in Lagos and a night engagement in Ijebu Ode.

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On account of that, he sent some members of his Meranda Band ahead to Ijebu Ode in the hope of joining them later in the day. He led the remaining members of the band to play at a wedding party at Isalegangan Street, Lagos.
He disappeared when the band was on recess and was later declared missing. After a fruitless search, the police decided to check on a body found in the Lagos lagoon shore near Bonny Camp on October 5, 1972. It was Ayinde Bakare’s.
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Adeshina Remigio Herrera

He is credited as being one of the most important founding fathers of Ifa in Cuba. Born & raised in Yorubaland and initiated as a Babalawo there, was enslaved and taken to Cuba as a young man in the 1830s.

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Legend has it that he swallowed his sacred Ikin Ifa used in divination in order to take them with him across the ocean. An intelligent and gifted man, he later bought his freedom and became a powerful property owner in the Havana suburb of Regla.
In addition to his large Yoruba and Creole religious family, he had many influential godchildren from Havanas Spanish, white elite and had important high society connections.
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I.K. Dairo, Jùjú artiste

He was born in the town of Offa, located in present day Kwara State; his family was originally from Ijebu-Ijesa before migrating to Offa. He attended a Christian Missionary primary school in Offa.

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I.K. Dairo's musical career entered the fast lane when he founded a ten piece band called the Morning Star Orchestra in 1957.
In the early 1960s, he changed the band's name to Blue Spots & he also won a competition televised in Western Nigeria to showcase the various talents in jùjú music.
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