Lawal Basil Agusto

Lawal Basil Agusto was an Islamic cleric and scholar. He founded Jamat-at-ul Islamiyya, one of the major Islamic associations of the southwest region of Nigeria. Agusto was born in 1885 in Lagos…

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Ansar-Ud-Deen Ota

Ansar-Ud-Deen Comprehensive College Otta was established September 19, 1946 in Ota. The Ota school, like the Ansar-Ud-Deen in Isolo and Surulere, is a Muslim secondary school for boys and girls….

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A mosque of the Ansar-Ud-Deen society in Akoka

Ansar-Ud-Deen

Ansar-Ud-Deen in southwest Nigeria is one of the oldest, and the most famous Islamic associations. The society was founded in 1923 to promote western education without compromising the cause of…

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Ansar-Ud-Deen Surulere

Ansar-Uud-Deen Grammar School Surulere, 73/74 Randle Avenue Surulere, Lagos, was founded in 1958 in Obele-Oniwala. The Ansar-Ud-Deen Grammar school had suffered serious difficulties even in…

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Alli Balogun

Alli Balogun was a Lagos politician and merchant in the 19th Century born in 1830 as Alli Makanjuola. Like his father, he was a slave dealer but he assumed a legal trade as supplier of local needs…

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Ajisafe Kayode Ajayi

Ajisafe Kayode Ajayi was an historian and poet born in 1875 as Emmanuel Olympus Moore. The patriotic zeal and cultural renaissance in him prompted the change of his name to a fully African one in…

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Ahmadiyya

Ahmadiyya is an Islamic group headquartered in India, founded by Mirza Ghullam Ahmad with a distinct Islamic ideology which varies considerably with orthodox teachings. Adherents believe Ahmadiyya…

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Agbebi's Inaugural sermon delivered to congregation 1902

Inaugural Sermon

Inagural Sermon is term used for sermon on 21 December 1902 by Mojola Agbebi, the poet and Baptist leader, in which his belief in Ethiopianism was outlined. The sermon was delivered at the…

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Obadare Timothy Oluwole

Timothy Obadare Television Evangelist and convener of Koseunti (God who never fails), a monthly revival program that draws many hundred spiritual tourists to Akure town. Timothy Obadare was born…

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Balogun Kuku

Balogun Kuku was the De facto leader of Ijebu Muslims during the military subjugation of Ijebu by the British in the early 20th Century. His conversion to Islam in 1902 had been a major lost to…

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