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Adeyemi Ajao
Adeyemi is a Yoruba name that means "The crown befits me". It could also mean crown is meant for me. The prefix 'Ade' which means Crown is typically reserved for people born into the royal family. Given name * Adeyemi Abayomi, Nigerian boxer * Adeyemi Afolahan, Nigerian Navy admiral * Adeyemi Afolayan, Nigerian actor * Adeyemi I Alowolodu, last ruler of the Oyo Empire * Adeyemi Ikuforiji, Nigerian politician * Adeyemi Olayemi, Nigerian politician Surname * Karim Adeyemi, German footballer * Kunlé Adeyemi, Nigerian architect * Tom Adeyemi, English footballer * Tomi Adeyemi, American author * Walé Adeyemi Walé Adeyemi MBE is a British-Nigerian fashion designer. He has worked as head designer at B-side, former creative director at New Era, an entrepreneur, industry spokesperson, music promoter, ambassador for The Prince's Trust and stylist to nume ..., British fashion designer See also * Adeyemo References {{surname Yoruba given names Yoruba-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoruba People
The Yoruba people (, , ) are a West African ethnic group that mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The areas of these countries primarily inhabited by Yoruba are often collectively referred to as Yorubaland. The Yoruba constitute more than 42 million people in Africa, are a few hundred thousand outside the continent, and bear further representation among members of the African diaspora. The vast majority of the Yoruba population is today within the country of Nigeria, where they make up 21% of the country's population according to CIA estimations, making them one of the largest List of ethnic groups of Africa, ethnic groups in Africa. Most Yoruba people speak the Yoruba language, which is the Niger–Congo languages, Niger-Congo language with the largest number of native or L1 speakers. In Africa, the Yoruba are contiguous with the Yoruboid languages, Yoruboid Itsekiri to the south-east in the northwest Niger Delta, Bariba people, Bariba to the northwest in Benin a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeyemi Abayomi
Adeyemi Abayomi Isaac (22 April 1941 – 2021) was a Nigerian boxer. He competed in the men's lightweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. .... References 1941 births 2021 deaths Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Nigerian male boxers Olympic boxers for Nigeria Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Nigeria Boxers at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Lightweight boxers Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games {{Nigeria-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeyemi Afolahan
Adeyemi Ambrose Afolahan (born 26 December 1949) was appointed the first Administrator of Taraba State, Nigeria in August 1991 after the state was created from part of the old Gongola State during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. He handed over to the elected civilian governor Jolly Nyame in January 1992 at the start of the Nigerian Third Republic. Afolahan was born on 26 December 1949 in Ibadan, Oyo State. He studied in Nigeria and the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North .... Posts included deputy commandant, National War College, Abuja, Chief of Naval Operations and Chief of Naval Plans. Speaking at a seminar in Lagos in May 2000, Afolahan called on Nigerian youths to abstain from sex or at least use condoms to ensure an AIDS-free socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeyemi Afolayan
Adeyemi Josiah Afolayan (1940–1996) was a Nigerian actor, filmmaker, dramatist, and producer. Early life Afolayan was born in 1940 in Kwara state Nigeria, he was a film actor, director, and producer. He is the brother of actress Toyin Afolayan as well as father to film actors, Kunle Afolayan, Tayo Afolayan, Gabriel Afolayan, Moji Afolayan , and Aremu Afolayan. Career In 1966, Afolayan joined Moses Olaiya's drama troupe, in 1971, he left to establish his own drama group which went on to stage comedic plays. In 1976, he appeared in Ola Balogun's ''Ajani Ogun'' and later produced and starred ''Ija Ominira'' (1979), also directed by Balogun. ''Kadara'', also called ''Destiny'' in English was the first movie he wrote, produced and also starred as leading actor. The movie was shown at the ninth Tashkent film festival for African and Asian cinema. Afolayan went on to produce and star in other productions such as ''Ija Orogun'', ''Taxi Driver'' and ''Iya ni Wura''. Selected fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeyemi I Alowolodu
Adeyemi I was the last independent ruler of the Oyo Empire The Oyo Empire was a powerful Yoruba empire of West Africa made up of parts of present-day eastern Benin and western Nigeria (including Southwest zone and the western half of Northcentral zone). It grew to become the largest Yoruba language, .... He ruled from 1876 to 1905. ''Photograph'' Starting in 1888 he came under increasing British control with his independence clearly ended by 1896. He was the Alaafin during the 16 years Yoruba civil war which went on from 1877-1893. References Oyo Empire 19th-century births 20th-century deaths Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{Africa-royal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oyo Empire
The Oyo Empire was a powerful Yoruba empire of West Africa made up of parts of present-day eastern Benin and western Nigeria (including Southwest zone and the western half of Northcentral zone). It grew to become the largest Yoruba language, Yoruba-speaking state and rose through the outstanding organizational and administrative skills of the Yoruba people, wealth gained from trade, and a powerful cavalry. The Oyo State, Oyo Empire was one of the most politically important states in the entirety of Western Africa from the mid-17th to the late 18th century, and held sway not only over most of the other kingdoms in Yorubaland, but also over nearby African states, notably the Fon people, Fon Kingdom of Dahomey in the modern Republic of Benin on its west. History Legend of origin The origins of the Oyo Empire lie with Oranyan (also known as Oranmiyan), the last prince of the Yoruba Kingdom of Ile-Ife (Ife). Oranmiyan made an agreement with his brother to launch a punitive raid o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeyemi Ikuforiji
Sabit Adeyemi Ikuforiji (; born 24 August 1958) is a Nigerian economist and politician who served as speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly from 2005 to 2015. He was charged alongside his former personal assistant Oyebode Atoyebi on a 54-count charge of money laundering amounting to 333.8 million Nigerian naira. He was acquitted. Early life Sabit Adeyemi Ikuforiji was born on 24 August 1958 in Epe, Local Government area of Lagos State southwestern Nigeria. He attended Local Authority Central School in Epe before he proceeded to Epe Grammar School where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in July 1975. He received a bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from Babeș-Bolyai University and Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies respectively. He later obtained a Master of Business Administration from the University of Lagos in 1980. Political life He began his political career as the general secretary of the Unity Party of Nigeria. In 2003, he contested th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeyemi Olayemi
Dr. Adeyemi Olayemi was born in Kano on 6 April 1970s. He is currently a member and chief whip of the Ondo State House of Assembly. He is also the President/Founder of The West African Union University and Pecox Global Limited. Early life He was born in Kano state, Nigeria. He had his primary education at African Church Primary School Ipaja, Lagos before he proceeded to Lishabi Grammar School, Abeokuta, Ogun state where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate. He studyed Marketing and graduated at Ibadan Polytechnic between 1994–1999. He completed his PGDE programme in the University of Calabar and proceeded immediately for his M.Ed in Education Administration and Planning from the University of Calabar which he completed in 2007. He bagged Doctor of Leadership from Institute of Humanistic Science, Missouri USA in 2014. Political career He won the 2019 Owo Constituency 2 of the Ondo State House of Assembly under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karim Adeyemi
Karim-David Adeyemi (born 18 January 2002) is a German professional footballer who plays as a winger, striker or attacking-midfielder for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Germany national team. Club career Red Bull Salzburg Adeyemi played as a youth for TSV Forstenried, and at the age of eight he joined local Bundesliga side FC Bayern München in 2010. Due to an impasse in negotiating his continued stay at the club, there was a dispute and Adeyemi eventually had to leave the club, which meant that he joined SpVgg Unterhaching in 2012. After progressing through the youth departments, he made his debut in March 2018 for the U19 team in the '' A-Junioren-Bundesliga'' (Under 19 Bundesliga). He scored his first goal in this league in April 2018 in a 2–3 loss to Eintracht Frankfurt U19. With Unterhaching, he suffered relegation to the '' A-Jugend Bayernliga'' (Under 19 Bayernliga) at the end of the season. Prior to the 2018–19 season, Adeyemi was signed by Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunlé Adeyemi
Kunlé Adeyemi was born on the and is a Nigerian architect, urbanist and creative researcher. Adeyemi is founder and principal of NLÉ, an architecture, design and urbanism practice, based in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Adeyemi studied at the University of Lagos in Nigeria and Princeton University in New Jersey, the United States. Before starting his own office in the Netherlands, he worked nearly a decade at Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Early life Adekunle Adeyemi was born and raised in Kaduna, in the north of Nigeria, and studied and started his early career in Lagos. His father was a modernist architect and started one of the first indigenous architecture firms in North Nigeria in the 1970s.Lagos Insider's Guide 2011/12 A Time Out Nigeria magazine on the 'Best of Lagos', published July 2011, containing an interview w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Adeyemi
Thomas Oluseun Adeyemi (born 24 October 1991) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Adeyemi started his professional career at Championship club Norwich City in 2008, having progressed through the club's youth ranks, and made his professional debut for the club in 2009. During his five-year spell at the club as a professional, he made eleven league appearances. He spent the 2010–11 season on loan to League Two club Bradford City, where he made 34 league appearances, and the next season on loan to Oldham Athletic of League One, making 36 league appearances. He was sent out on loan again for the 2012–13 season, this time to League One club Brentford, where he made 30 league appearances. He joined Championship club Birmingham City in July 2013 on a free transfer, having been released by Norwich, and a year later moved again, to fellow Championship club Cardiff City. After struggling to establish himself in the first team, he spent time on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomi Adeyemi
Tomi Adeyemi (born August 1, 1993) is a Nigerian-American novelist and creative writing coach. She is known for her novel ''Children of Blood and Bone'', the first in the ''Legacy of Orïsha'' trilogy published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, which won the 2018 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, the 2019 Waterstones Book Prize, and the 2019 Hugo Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book. In 2019, she was named to the ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 list. In 2020, she was named to the ''TIME'' 100 Most Influential People of 2020 in the "Pioneers" category. Early life Tomi Adeyemi was born on August 1, 1993 in the United States to parents who emigrated from Nigeria. Her father was a physician in Nigeria but found employment as a taxi driver while he waited to transfer his qualifications. Adeyemi's mother worked as a cleaning woman. Adeyemi grew up in Chicago and was not exposed to her Nigerian heritage; her parents decided not to teach her or her siblings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
