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The Egba people are a subgroup of the Yoruba people, an ethnic group of western Nigeria, a majority of whom are from the central part of Ogun State, that is Ogun Central Senatorial District. Ogun Central Senatorial District comprises six local government areas : Abeokuta North , Abeokuta South , Ewekoro , Ifo , Obafemi Owode and Odeda local ...
A short oral history of Egba in Iyewa Egbado langauge by Elegbede Fausat Agbeke, a native speaker on the 25th of May 2021 at Abeokuta in, Ogun state. Date: 25 May 2021: Source: Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc: Author: Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc: Permission (Reusing this file)
The names Jaega and Jobé (or variants thereof) appear on 17th-century Spanish maps of Florida, and in Spanish reports. [ 15 ] Jonathan Dickinson , who was part of a shipwrecked party detained in the town of Jobé for several days in 1696, wrote a Journal that contains descriptions of the people of Jobé (near present-day Jupiter Inlet).
The Florida Historical Quarterly. 70 (4): 451– 474. ISSN 0015-4113. JSTOR 30148124. Hann, John H. (1996). A History of Timucua Indians and Missions. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1424-7. Hann, John H. (2003). Indians of Central and South Florida: 1513–1763. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.
A survey and map of the area drawn by Ilaro Divisional Native Authority in 1913 under the stewardship of Ifaremilekun Fagbemi for district planning recognized Gbalefa Peninsula as an area of native authority that encompassed Iju and other towns. The survey was deemed acceptable by Awori, Egba and Egbado representatives.
It was ultimately proven in 1921 that there were good grounds for the protest by the people who were against State ownership of native lands. [3] Edun facilitated a good relationship between the white merchants and the Egba people, and he was pivotal to the modernization of administration and civilization in the land.
The Alake, Egba Government Officials, and the Lagos Colony Governor. The Egba United Government (EUG) was a short-lived but significant government established in the late 19th century by the Egba-Egbado people, a subgroup of the Yoruba ethnic group, in what is now South-western Nigeria and Eastern Benin.
The Egba people's original homeland in the Egba forest was established by Yoruba migrants from elsewhere. According to The History of the Yorubas by Samuel Johnson, Eso Ikoyi chiefs in the retinue of the first Alake of the Egbas joined him in founding a new community - the confederacy of towns that became known as Orile Egba - in the forest after they left the nascent Oyo empire in around the ...