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Professor Oluwole Soyinka

Oluwole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan, he continued at the University of Leeds, where, later, in 1973, he took his

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Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola

Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, also known as M. K. O. Abiola GCFR (24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998) was a Nigerian businessman, publisher, politician and aristocrat of the Egba clan. He was the Aare Ona Kankafo XIV of

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Chief Obafemi Awolowo

Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo, GCFR (Yoruba: Ọbafẹ́mi Oyèníyì Awólọ́wọ̀; 6 March 1909 – 9 May 1987), was a Nigerian nationalist and statesman who played a key role in Nigeria’s independence movement, the First and Second Republics and the Civil

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Madam Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was born today in 1900 She was the only woman in NCNC’s delegation to London in 1947 to negotiate for independence. Woman Leader and Activist as well as the Leader of Commoners Peoples Party, the Leader of Nigeria

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Queen Moremi Ajasoro

Queen Moremi Ajasoro was a courageous queen who is fabled to have contributed to the deliverance of the people of the Yoruba racial or ethnic origin from the oppression of its invading enemy

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