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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People’s Union

People’s Union, often taken as Nigeria’s first political party was a pressure group formed in 1908 during the Water Rate agitation in Ilupesi by John Randle and Orisadipe Obasa who were…

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Orisadipe Obasa

Orisadipe Obasa, a pioneer Nigerian physician, one of the last of the eight who qualified as medic in the late 19th century was born in Sierra Leone into a privileged royal family of Ikole-Ekiti…

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