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Mayflower School
Mayflower School was founded on 27 January 1956 by Tai Solarin, a Nigerian educator, humanist and civil rights pioneer, who was married to Sheila Mary Tuer, an English woman; they had two children Corin and Tunde Solarin. The school is located on a vast piece of land in Ikenne, Ogun State, Nigeria. It is a 90 acres of land school. Named after the historical Mayflower ship that brought the first batch of pilgrims to the United States. Like the pilgrims, Solarin founded the school in personal rebellion against religious persecution. Mayflower preaches a very strong educational philosophy grounded in self-reliance, self-sacrifice, public service and physical toughness. In Solarin's words, the students must be "rugged." Since the school was first established, in the boarding house, female students are forbidden from using any form of cosmetics. A rigorous, military-style living regimen requires that every student wake up at 5:00 am for a round of moderate physical exercise which invol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tai Solarin
Augustus Taiwo "Tai" Solarin (20 August 1922 – 27 July 1994) was a Nigerian educator and author. He established the famous Mayflower School, Ikenne, Ogun State in 1956. In 1952, Solarin became the principal of Molusi College, Ijebu Igbo, a post he held till 1956 when he became the proprietor and principal of Mayflower School. Early life Solarin was born in Ikenne, Ogun State, in Western Nigeria on 20 August 1922, the first child in a set of twins. His twin sister, Kehinde Solarin died in 1991 at about 69 years. He attended Wesley College Ibadan. Solarin was inspired by the writings of Nnamdi Azikiwe who encouraged young people to travel abroad for study. His initial attempt to gain a passport fell through but he later enlisted in the British Air Force and served with the Royal Air Force as a navigator in the Second World War. He remained in Britain, studying at Victoria University of Manchester, University of Manchester, and then at the University of London. Tai Solarin marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma College
Alma College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Alma, Michigan. It enrolls approximately 1,400 students and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Alma College is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and offers bachelor's degrees in multiple disciplines as well as the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing and the Master of Science in Communication and Information Technology. Its athletics teams, nicknamed the Scots, are part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) - List of NCAA Division III Institutions, Division III and the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). History The college was founded by Michigan Presbyterians in 1886. It received funding from lumber magnate Ammi W. Wright, for whom Wright Hall on campus and Wright Avenue in the city of Alma are named. A marker designating the college as a List_of_Michigan_State_Historic_Sites , Michigan Historic Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Establishments In Nigeria
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine (region), Palestine. * January 25–January 26, 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet Union, Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British Espionage, spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14–February 25, 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Mosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isio De-laVega Wanogho
Isio Wanogho (born November 17, 1983) is a Nigerian supermodel, columnist, painter, and Interior architect. She has received recognition for her contributions, including an African Youth Society award, two Future Awards nominations, the FAB award, a Nigerian Model Achievers Award, and being named the youth ambassador by the Global Foundation for Peace, Unity, and Development. She has pursued several endeavors, including making graphic art consisting of hand-made cards in 2000. Two years later, in 2002, she entered the modeling industry. In 2007, she was a television presenter, later in 2009, a fashion design (after which she debuted 5000 outfits as one of three official designers for the Lagos Carnival in 2010). Biography Nigerian-born Isio lived and schooled in Florence, Italy, where she earned an M.Sc in Interior Design. When she moved back to Nigeria in 2012, she set up her design studio and continued her work as a TV presenter. She is conversant in six languages but speak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepenazi
Opeyemi Gbenga Kayode (born 16 April 1988), known by his stage name Pepenazi, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. Early life and education Pepenazi was born in Lagos and grew up listening to Ebenezer Obey, King Sunny Adé, The Beattles, I. K. Dairo and Fela Kuti. He received his primary education at Kemeesther Nursery and Primary School in Aguda Surulere, Lagos. Pepenazi had his secondary-school education at Mayflower School in Ikenne, Ogun State, where his growing interest for rap emerged as he listened to Wyclef Jean, the Notorious B.I.G., P. Diddy, Fat Joe and others. He bagged a Bachelor of Technology degree in estate management from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, where he recorded his first single. Pepenazi won a student election to become the student union's director of socials and participated in an album, ''Futa's Finnest''. Career 2012–2014 Pepenazi entered the Nigerian music industry in 2012, when he released a rap single entitled "Aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Joshua
Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua (born 15 October 1989) is an English professional boxer. He is a two-time former unified world heavyweight champion, having held the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO titles twice between 2016 and 2021. At regional level, he held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2015 to 2016. As an amateur, Joshua represented England at the 2011 World Championships in the super-heavyweight division, winning a silver medal. He also represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics, winning gold. In 2014, a year after turning professional, he was named Prospect of the Year by '' The Ring'' magazine. In 2017, his victorious fight against Wladimir Klitschko was named Fight of the Year by ''The Ring'' and the Boxing Writers Association of America. Joshua is the second English boxer, after James DeGale, to win both a gold medal at the Olympics and a world title by a major professional sanctioning body, as well as the first English heavyweigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chude Jideonwo
Chude Jideonwo (born 16 March 1985) is a Nigerian lawyer, journalist and media entrepreneur. He is the founder of Joy, Inc., an American benefit corporation with a Nigerian subsidiary, which aims to make people happier. He has worked for several years in media, advertising and public relations. He is also involved in news, social media and youth lifestyles. He is the executive producer and host of #WithChude, a special series of targeted multimedia (video, audio, text, event) conversations and investigations that leverage his voice, network, passion and interviews to underline issues, raise consciousness, and spark movements; especially in Africa and for Africans. Focused on narratives that enable and strengthen the mind (mental health), heart (emotional health), and spirit (spiritual health), the themes of #WithChude center on empathy, compassion, mindfulness, wellness, happiness, love, joy, and food for the soul. He is also director of #ChudeExplains, a series of films that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DO2dTUN
Oladotun Ojuolape Kayode (born April 8, 1984) is a Nigerian on-air personality, video jockey, actor and media entrepreneur, popularly known as Do2Tun (Pronounced D-O-To-The-T-U-N). After pioneering a dance group called Xtreme dancers while in the university and featuring in music videos like D’banj's Why Me and Same Ni by Dj Zeez, Dotun came to wider prominence as a TV and radio personality, hosting shows and concerts. Early life Oladotun Ojuolape Kayode was born in Lagos on 8 April 1984 to a building engineer father and a nurse mother. He is the first child of a nuclear family of three children. He attended Kemeesther Nursery and Primary school in Surulere, Lagos and then to the Mayflower School, Ikenne, Ogun State. He then proceeded to the Lagos State University earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication (with specialty in Advertising and Public Relations). He plays football on the streets of Surulere and was at one point in his life tagged "The family's black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunji Disu
Olatunji Disu (born 13 April 1966) is a Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Police Officer, a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the immediate past head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Police Force in Nigeria, the position previously held by Abba Kyari (police), Abba Kyari. He is now Principal Staff Officer to the Acting Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun. He's a graduate of English Education from Lagos State University (LASU) and a holder of two master's degrees, one in Administration from Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo State, the other in Criminology, Security, and Legal Psychology from Lagos State University. Education and training Tunji Disu attended Holy Cross Cathedral primary school and completed his primary school education at Mayflower School, Mayflower Junior School in Ikenne, Ogun State in 1979. He also went on to Pobuna Secondary Grammar School in Epe, and St Gregory's College, Lagos where he finished his secondary ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bamisile
Richard Olufemi Bamisile (popularly known as BAFEM; born 27 September 1965) is a Nigerian politician and current member of the Federal House of Representatives for Ekiti South II Constituency. He is also a former Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly (Third Parliament). He was among the candidates for the All Progressive Congress (APC) at the Ekiti State gubernatorial election primaries in 2019. Early life Bamisile was born on September 27, 1965 at Ibadan, Oyo State to the family of Late, Mr. Bamisile who was the Elekota of Kota-Omuo (The traditional leader of Kota-Omuo, now Kota-Ekiti). Education Bamisile attended Mayflower School, Ikenne between 1973 and 1978, and later Government College, Eric Moore, Lagos between 1978 and 1983 where he had his West African Senior School Certificate Examination ordinary level and proceeded to the Federal College of Arts and Sciences in Lagos in 1984 for his advance level certificate. He was a student of Political Science at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayo Amusa
Dayo Amusa (born 20 July 1983) is a Nigerian actress, singer, television personality, and business woman. She is well known for her performance in Nollywood movies especially Yoruba movies. Early life and career Dayo was born in Lagos. She is the first child in a family of Five. Her mother hails from Ogun state while her father is from Lagos. She attended Mayflower School, Ikene. Dayo studied Food Science and Technology at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic before commencing her acting career in 2002. Dayo had her first production in 2006. Although she acts mostly in Yoruba language films of Nollywood, she has also acted in English language films. Dayo is the Proprietress of PayDab Schools which has two locations in Ibadan Ibadan (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 3,649,000 as of 2021, and over 6 million people within its me ... and Lagos. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Kumuyi
William Folorunso Kumuyi (born 6 June 1941) is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry situated at Gbagada, Lagos, Nigeria. He is the author of several Christian books and devotionals. William Folorunso Kumuyi celebrated his 80th Birthday on 6 June 2021. Background Kumuyi was born into a Christian family in Erin-Ijesa, Ogun State, western part of Nigeria. He completed his secondary school education in 1961 at Mayflower School in Ikenne, Ogun State, from where he proceeded to the University of Ibadan and in 1967 graduated with a first-class honours degree in mathematics where he graduated as overall best graduating student in that year. He subsequently took a post-graduate course in Education at the University of Lagos. He became a born-again Christian on Sunday, April 5th, 1964 at the age of 23. On his upbringing, Kumuyi was quoted to have said Kumuyi was influenced by John Wesley, Charles Finney and Charles Spurgeon. His father was a mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
