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Through his father, he was a great-grandson of Jibodu, an Alake of Egbaland before the Egba people migrated to Abeokuta. After the death of his father, Ademola I in 1877, he was taken to Lagos to be raised by his aunt. He was educated at the Ake School, Abeokuta and in Lagos, he attended Breadfruit School, Lagos and Forsythe school.
Adebesin Folarin's father, Z. A. Williams. Josiah Folarin Williams was born in Abeokuta, Southern Nigeria, in 1877. He was the first son of Zachariah Archibald Williams (commonly known as Z. A. Williams) (1850 - 2 March 1912), [2] who was a Merchant Prince of Abeokuta and one of the most successful businessmen in Nigeria at the time.
Adetokunbo was born on 1 February 1906, into royalty as the son of Prince Ladapo and Princess Tejumade Ademola. His father was a regent of the Egba United Government in Lagos who later became Ademola II, the Alake of Egbaland, Abeokuta, a historic walled city of the Egbas in south-western Nigeria. [2]
Many of Jibodu's descendants became Alake of Egbaland when the Egba moved to Abeokuta. Okikilu was the last Alake to rule in Igbo-Egba. He was murdered by messengers sometime in the early 1900s during a civil war among Ake towns known as Agbaje. The Egba Ake people soon settled in Abeokuta not too long after his death.
Abeokuta is the capital city of Ogun State located at the south westhern part of Nigeria. It is situated on the east bank of the Ogun River , near a group of rocky outcrops in a wooded savanna ; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] 77 kilometres (48 mi) north of Lagos by railway, or 130 kilometres (81 mi) by water .
Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo III (born 14 September 1943) is the current Alake of Egba, a clan in Abeokuta, Nigeria. He has ruled since 2 August 2005. He has ruled since 2 August 2005. Early life
The Alake of Abeokuta, or Alake of Egbaland, is the traditional ruler of the Egba clan of Yoruba in the city of Abeokuta in southwestern Nigeria. [ 2 ] The Egba Ake section is seen by traditionalists as Abeokuta's aristocracy because its principal noblemen , the Omo-Iya-Marun, serve as the kingmakers of the Alake, who must himself also come ...
Scipio was born as an Omoba in 1784 in the Owu kingdom of Abeokuta in Yorubaland. [2] [9] [10] He was captured by European trans-Atlantic slave traders in 1805 [11] and taken together with other captured slaves to the Velekete Slave Market in Badagry, one of Nigeria's slave portal, from where he was shipped in a slave ship to America and taken upcountry to Camden, about 30 miles northeast of ...