Sam Ojebode
Samuel Ojebode (14 July 1944 – 4 July 2012) was a Nigerian association football, footballer. Career Ojebode played for Shooting Stars F.C., Shooting Stars, where he won the 1976 African Cup Winners' Cup; he also captained the Nigeria national football team, Nigerian national side in three matches at the 1976 African Cup of Nations. He appeared in four FIFA World Cup qualifying matches. References

1944 births 2012 deaths Nigerian footballers Nigeria men's international footballers 1976 African Cup of Nations players Men's association football fullbacks Sportspeople from Oyo State {{Nigeria-footy-bio-stub ...
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Oyo, Nigeria
Oyo is an ancient city in Oyo State, Nigeria. It was founded as the capital of the remnant of the historic Oyo empire in the 1830s, and is known to its people as 'New Oyo' (Ọ̀yọ́ Àtìbà) to distinguish it from the former capital to the north, 'Old Oyo' (Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé), which had been deserted as a result of the Yoruba Revolutionary Wars. Its inhabitants are mostly of the Yoruba people, and its ruler is the Alaafin of Oyo. History Due to the dominant position that the Oyo empire had in medieval West Africa, the members of the Oyo clan of the Yoruba people were commonly thought of as being the tribe's ruling elite. This was true to such an extent, in fact, that the Yoruba historian Samuel Johnson reported that the Egbas - who began as an Oyo offshoot - once determined social rank within their clan by way of whether or not an Egba could trace his or her descent back to Oyo. Education Oyo is home to five higher institutions; these are the Federal College of Education (Spe ...
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