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Tributes To A Legendary School Principal

High Chief Ayo Olayinka: Retired but absolutely not tired As we were rounding up our common entrance examination papers in 1976, this tall lanky hazel eyed man wearing a French suit walked into one of the Methodist primary school classrooms examination venue to address us. His very light near albino complexion stood him out among others. Words I could still remember as he addressed us were that all of us from different cities, towns and villages even other states that came to write this exam should first count ourselves lucky. And any who passed the exam and scale through to the interview is luckier and whoever weathers the interview and got addmitted into Form One of this new community high school should count himself luckiest. Lucky, luckier and luckiest. Kind, encouraging and positive but weighty words. That even those who did not pass an entrance exam but only sat for it should still count themselves lucky! One hundred and twenty "luckiest" of us finally s...

The Only Exclusive Female Army Ever In History

The Agojis as they were called were the first and only exclusive all female soldiers and fighters in history. The kingdom of Oyo, of what is today western Nigeria had made Dahomey it's tributary state and demanded regular tributes to the Oyo throne. It now came a time that the Dahomey rulers felt they have had enough of this oppresive servitude to the Oyo empire. Same way Fabunmi of Oke-mesi felt against same Oyo and mobilised soldiers for the Ekiti-parapo war. Research indicates that Dahomey kingdom was born out of chaos and this very resistance to the Oyo Kingdom. Dahomey carried out this resistance mobilising a truly militarized all women entity called the Agojis. The Agojis were a highly revered fierce band of an all female fighters unit of the military superstructure. They became the king's special guards and even supervised the men in government and reported to the king. Again these fierce female fighters were known as the Agojis. These fierce and fiery all female ...

History Of Usen, A Yoruba Town In Edo State

Ode Awure originated as a farmstead founded around the 10th century C.E by some indigenes of Ufe (Ile Ife) led by one Oyebo, however, the first crowned ruler of Usen was prince Afelogiyan a brother to prince Oranmiyan, the founder and progenitor of the current dynasty of Edo kings.They were both progeny to the Olofen in Ife (Uhe) who were both on their way to the present day Benin. The site of the original farmstead from which Usen sprung is situated in the present Odomukpe quarters of town. Folk oral tradition has it that during one of his hunting expeditions into the surrounding forest, he discovered a stream/river which he named Eri Ode (i.e Hunter's stream). This stream is today believed to possess somemythical properties and is one of the most revered deities of the people belonging to the usen cultural community today. In the year 1897, Major Roupell, a British officer in Benin wrote; "The country is entirely Yoruba in its customs, Yoruba is everywhere spoken." ...

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