A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE AMAZING DR EBENEZER OBEY.
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Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Obey-Fabiyi, popularly knon as Ebenezer Obey is a Yoruba musician, songwriter, and bandleader who is one of the pioneer of the Juju music genre. He was born on April 3, 1942, in Idogo, Yoruba land.
Obey began his music career in the 1950s, playing guitar in local bands. He formed his own band, the International Brothers, in 1964, and their debut album "Ewa wo ohun ojuri" was a hit in Nigeria.
Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon is a retired Nigerian Army general and military leader who served as Nigeria’s head of state from August 1, 1966, to July 29, 1975. In his regime as the third head of state.
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In an effort to foster healing and reconciliation, Gowon presided over the contentious Nigerian Civil War, which took place between July 6, 1967, and January 15, 1970, and gave the popular “no victor, no conquered” speech at the end of the war.
History has it that Yakubu Gowon was Nigeria’s youngest military chief of staff at the age of 31 as a result of the military coup d’état orchestrated by some junior officers during the administration of Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu,which led to the overthrow of the civilian govt
The Ibo, also known as the Igbo, are people who live in southeastern Nigeria and have a variety of intriguing customs and traditions. They are one of Nigeria’s largest and most powerful tribes, with a population of over 40 million people.
The Igbos are well-known in Nigeria and around the world for their entrepreneurial endeavors and their passion to sustain their work-life history, which in different ways have been promoting the country’s economy.
Awori People: A brief history and belief of the original indigenes of Lagos.
King Oduduwa had given Olofin a mud plate, instructing him to place it on the water and follow it until it sank into the river.
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The Aworis are the original indigenes of Lagos.
Origin of Awori people
Legend has it that Prince Olofin and his followers left the palace of King Oduduwa in Ile-Ife and migrated southward along a river.
Olofin is one of Oduduwa's son
It is said that several days after leaving Ile-Ife, the plate suddenly stopped near Olokemeji near present-day Abeokuta. And after seventeen days, it began moving again.
It would later stop for another seventeen days at Oke-Ata.
THE HISTORY OF LAGOS (EKO): Aworis are the inhabitants of EKO and they are Yorubas.
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Lagos is a state in southwestern Nigeria that is located on the coast of the Benin Bight. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of Ogun; on the south by the Benin Bight, and on the west by the Republic of Benin.
The British administered the state’s territory as part of the Nigerian colony from 1914 until 1954. The Federal Territory of Lagos, which is the 27-square-mile (70-square-kilometre) territory of Lagos Island, including the city of Lagos,
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Imo State, located in the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, is the third smallest in the area and the fourteenth most populous state in Nigeria. Imo State, also known as Ȯra Imo in Igbo,
is bordered to the north by Anambra State, Rivers State to the west and south, and Abia State to the east.
When the Nigerian civil war began in 1967, the Yakubu Gowon military authority divided what is now known as Imo State into three states,