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Abeokuta Women's Revolt
The Abeokuta Women’s Revolt was a resistance movement led by the Abeokuta Women’s Union (AWU) in the late 1940s against the imposition of unfair taxation by the Nigerian colonial government.
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Adedapo Tejuoso
His Royal Highness Oba Adedapo Adewale Tejuoso is the Osile of Oke Ona Egbaland.
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Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo III
Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo III (born 14 September 1943) is the current Alake of Egba, a clan in Abeokuta, Nigeria.
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Adubi War
The Adubi War (known locally as Ogun Adubi or Egba Uprising) was a conflict in June and July 1918 in the British Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria ostensibly because of the imposition of colonial taxation.
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Akin Ogungbe
Akin Ogungbe (1934 – November 2012) was a Nigerian film actor, filmmaker, producer and director.
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Akintola Williams
Chief Akintola Williams (born 9 August 1919) was the first African to qualify as a chartered accountant.
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Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.
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Baptists
Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).
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Bisoye Tejuoso
Chief Bisoye Tejuoso was a Nigerian businesswoman from Abeokuta.
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Bola Ajibola
Omoba Bolasodun Adesumbo "Bola" Ajibola KBE (born March 22, 1934)Mielle K. Bulterman, Martin Kuijer was an Attorney General and the Minister of Justice of Nigeria from 1985 to 1991 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1991 to 1994.
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Canning
Canning is a method of preserving food in which the food contents are processed and sealed in an airtight container.
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Cassava
Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc, yuca, mandioca and Brazilian arrowroot, is a woody shrub native to South America of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.
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Centenary Hall
Centenary Hall is a building within the Melbourne CBD in Victoria, Australia, on the corner of Exhibition Street and Little Collins Street.
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City
A city is a large human settlement.
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Cocoa bean
The cocoa bean, also called cacao bean, cocoa, and cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and, because of the seed's fat, cocoa butter can be extracted.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
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Dahomey
The Kingdom of Dahomey was an African kingdom (located within the area of the present-day country of Benin) that existed from about 1600 until 1894, when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by the French, and the country was annexed into the French colonial empire.
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Dimeji Bankole
Sabur Oladimeji "Dimeji" Bankole (born 14 November 1969) is a Nigerian politician and 9th Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria.
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Ebenezer Obey
Ebenezer Obey (born 3 April 1942 as Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Obey-Fabiyi in Idogo, Nigeria), nicknamed the "Chief Commander", is a Nigerian jùjú musician.
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Efunroye Tinubu
Madam Efunroye Tinubu (1810 – 1887), born Efunporoye Osuntinubu, was a politically significant figure in Nigerian history because of her role as a powerful female aristocrat and slave trader in pre-colonial and colonial Nigeria.
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Egba people
The Egba people are a subgroup of the Yoruba people, an ethnic group of western Nigeria, majorly from the central part of Ogun State that is Ogun central senatorial district.
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Egba United Government
The Egba United Government (EUG) was a political entity in the late 19th century in what is today Nigeria.
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Electrification
Electrification is the process of powering by electricity and, in many contexts, the introduction of such power by changing over from an earlier power source.
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Ernest Shonekan
Chief Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan (born 9 May 1936 in Lagos, Colonial Nigeria) is a British-trained Nigerian lawyer, industrialist, politician and traditional chieftain.
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Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, or FUNAAB, was established on 1 January 1988 by the Federal Government when four universities of technology, earlier merged in 1984, were demerged.
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Fela Kuti
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), also professionally known as Fela Kuti, or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick.
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Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard
Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (22 January 1858 – 11 April 1945), known as Sir Frederick Lugard between 1901 and 1928, was a British soldier, mercenary, explorer of Africa and colonial administrator.
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Frederick Rotimi Williams
Chief Frederick Rotimi Alade Williams, QC, SAN (16 December 1920 – 26 March 2005) was a prominent Nigerian lawyer who was the first Nigerian to become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
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Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, MON (25 October 1900 – 13 April 1978), otherwise known as Funmilayo Anikulapo-Kuti, was a teacher, political campaigner, women's rights activist and traditional aristocrat in Nigeria.
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Ghezo
Ghezo or Gezo was King of the Dahomey, in present-day Benin, from 1818 until 1858.
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Gilbert Thomas Carter
Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter (Sir Thomas Gilbert-Carter) (14 January 1848 – 18 January 1927) was an administrative officer in the Royal Navy and a colonial official for the British Empire.
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Granite
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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Ibadan
Ibadan is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, Nigeria.
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Ike Shorunmu
Ike Ibrahim Shorunmu (born October 16, 1967) is a former football goalkeeper from Nigeria.
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Ilaro
Ilaro, Ogun State is a town in Ogun State, Nigeria.
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Indigo
Indigo is a deep and rich color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine.
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Irrigation
Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.
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Iseyin
Iseyin is a city located in the Nigerian state of Oyo.
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Jimi Solanke
Jimi Solanke (born July 1942) is a Nigerian film actor, dramatist, folk singer, poet and playwright.
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Juju
Juju or ju-ju (lit) is a spiritual belief system incorporating objects, such as amulets, and spells used in religious practice, as part of witchcraft in West Africa.
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Kétou, Benin
Kétou is a Yoruba town, arrondissement, and commune located in the Plateau Department of the Republic of Benin (previously called 'Dahomey').
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kola nut
The kola nut is the fruit of the kola tree, a genus (Cola) of trees that are native to the tropical rainforests of Africa.
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Kola Tubosun
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a Nigerian linguist, writer, scholar and cultural activist, BBC Radio 4, whose work and influence span the fields of education, technology, literature, journalism, and linguistics.
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Kuforiji Olubi
Oloye Bola Kuforiji-Olubi (September 28, 1936 – December 3, 2016) was a Nigerian noblewoman, banker and federal minister of commerce.
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Lagos
Lagos is a city in the Nigerian state of Lagos.
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Lagos State
Lagos, sometimes referred to as Lagos State to distinguish it from Lagos Metropolitan Area, is a state in the southwestern geopolitical zone of Nigeria.
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Land
Land, sometimes referred to as dry land, is the solid surface of Earth that is not permanently covered by water.
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Lumber
Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.
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Maize
Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
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Moshood Abiola
Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, GCFR (24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998) was a Nigerian Yoruba businessman, publisher, politician and aristocrat of the Yoruba Egba clan.
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Mudashiru Lawal
Mudashiru Babatunde "Muda" Lawal (8 June 1954 in Abeokuta – 6 July 1991 in Ibadan) was a Nigerian footballer who played as a midfielder for both club and country.
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Natural rubber
Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds, plus water.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Ogun River
The Ogun River is a waterway in Nigeria that discharges into the Lagos Lagoon.
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Ogun State
Ogun State is a state in southwestern Nigeria.
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Olikoye Ransome-Kuti
Olikoye Ransome-Kuti (30 December 1927 – 1 June 2003) was a paediatrician, activist, and health minister of Nigeria.
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Olumo Rock
Olumo Rock is a popular tourist attraction in the city of Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.
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Olusegun Obasanjo
Chief Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo, GCFR, Ph.D. (Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́; born 5 May 1937) is a former Nigerian Army general who was President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007.
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Olusegun Osoba
Chief Olusegun Osoba (born on 15 July 1939 at an Egba settlement in Osogbo) is a Nigerian journalist and politician.
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Oyan River Dam
The Oyan River Dam is in Abeokuta North local government area of Ogun State in the West of Nigeria, about 20 km north west of the state capital Abeokuta.
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Oyo Empire
The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire of what is today Western and North central Nigeria.
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Oyo State
Oyo, usually referred to as Oyo State to distinguish it from the city of Oyo, is an inland state in south-western Nigeria, with its capital at Ibadan.
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Palm oil
Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa.
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President of Nigeria
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the head of state and head of the national executive of Nigeria.
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Rail transport in Nigeria
Railways in Nigeria are operated by the Nigerian Railway Corporation.
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Rice
Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).
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Sagamu
Sagamu or Ishagamu is a city located in Ogun State, near the Ibu River in south-western Nigeria.
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Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
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Segun Odegbami
Patrick Olusegun Odegbami, often shortened to Segun Odegbami (born August 27, 1952, in Abeokuta) is a retired Nigerian footballer who played as a forward.
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Shane Lawal
Olaseni Abdul-Jelili "Shane" Lawal (born October 8, 1986) is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for Sidigas Avellino of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).
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Shea butter
Shea butter is a fat extracted from the nut of the African shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa).
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Shina Peters
Sir Shina Peters (born 30 May 1958) is a Nigerian Jùjú musician.
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.
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Sierra Leone Creole people
The Sierra Leone Creole people (or Krio people) is an ethnic group in Sierra Leone.
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States of Nigeria
A Nigerian State is a federated political entity, which shares sovereignty with the Federal Government of Nigeria, There are 36 States in Nigeria, which are bound together by a federal agreement.
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Tropical savanna climate
Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".
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Tunde Bakare
Tunde Bakare is a Nigerian Prophetic-Apostolic pastor.
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Tunji Oyelana
Tunji Oyelana (born October 4, 1939) is a multi-award-winning Nigerian musician, actor, folk singer, composer and once a lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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University of Lagos
The University of Lagos – popularly known as Unilag – is a federal government research university in Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria.
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Water
Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.
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Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká,; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist.
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Yam (vegetable)
Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers.
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Yoruba people
The Yoruba people (name spelled also: Ioruba or Joruba;, lit. 'Yoruba lineage'; also known as Àwon omo Yorùbá, lit. 'Children of Yoruba', or simply as the Yoruba) are an ethnic group of southwestern and north-central Nigeria, as well as southern and central Benin.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeokuta
