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Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 8:43pm On May 20, 2016
Kwara is a state in the midle belt of the federal republic of Nigeria. Its capital is Ilorin. Kwara state is blessed witha number of ethic groups and dialects which include Yoruba (major language), Nupe, Bariba, Barutin and Fulani among others. Kwara state is the state with the highest number of lawyers in Nigeria.
The state is blessed with a lot of successful personels in different industries ranging from politics, music and nollywood among others
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by klassykute(m): 8:44pm On May 20, 2016
there must b counter thread
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by olatunjithomas(m): 8:45pm On May 20, 2016
undecidedfirst,the thread title talks about celebrities from Ilorin, now the thread itself is talking about lawyers. not even a cele was mentioned. later you'll say Buhari is clueless.
how did you even pass WAEC?
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by kossyablaze(m): 8:46pm On May 20, 2016
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Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by Stevostical(m): 8:47pm On May 20, 2016
Chai, must there be counter thread, I love my state but that's not to say we should not appreciate others and get jealous over little things.
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 8:53pm On May 20, 2016
Bukola Saraki
Bukola Saraki is a Nigerian politician who has been President of the Senate of Nigeria since 2015. Previously he was Governor of Kwara State from 2003 to 2011. He was first elected to the Senate in April 2011, representing the Kwara Central senatorial district, and re-elected in the March 2015 elections.

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 8:57pm On May 20, 2016
Lai muhammed
Lai Mohammed is the current Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture, a Nigerian lawyer and former National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 9:02pm On May 20, 2016
Lagbaja
Lagbaja (born Bisade Ologunde in Lagos) is a multi-award winning Nigerian Afrobeat musician, singer and song-writer. He was born in 1960 in Lagos state. He is a descent of Odogun’s Compound, Ijagbo Community in Oyun Local Government Area[1] of Kwara State.[2] Bisade is a Baptist by birth. He is also a Globacom ambassador.

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Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by Nobody: 9:03pm On May 20, 2016
lafex:
Lai muhammed
Lai Mohammed is the current Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture, a Nigerian lawyer and former National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Lai is from Oro not Ilorin..
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 9:09pm On May 20, 2016
Wasiu Alabi Pasuma
Wasiu Alabi Pasuma popularly known as "Oganla", is a Nigerian film actor and fuji musician from Oro, kwara state.

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 9:17pm On May 20, 2016
David Oyedepo
David O. Oyedepo is a Nigerian Christian author, preacher, the founder and presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church World Wide, also known as Winners' Chapel, and its affiliated international churches known as Winners Chapel International, with headquarters in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. Oyedepo is the senior pastor of Faith Tabernacle, a 50,000 seat church auditorium, reported to be the largest church auditorium in the world by the Guinness Book of Records.[1]

The Winners' Chapel network of churches is located in over 300 cities, in all states of Nigeria, as well as, in several cities in 45 African nations, Dubai, the United Kingdom and the United States Oyedepo has been seen as one of the pioneers of the Christian charismatic movement in Africa and has been referred to as one of the most powerful preachers in Nigeria. He is the Chancellor of Covenant University and Landmark University. He was named in 2011 by Forbes magazine as being the richest pastor in Nigeria.

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 9:34pm On May 20, 2016
Salihu Modibbo Alfa Belgore, CON, GCFR (Justice Alfa Belgore
Justice Alfa Belgoree was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Nigeria as Justice in 1986 and held several positions in the judiciary before he was appointed as Chief Justice of Nigeria on July 2006, a position he held until January 2007 when he retired.

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 9:45pm On May 20, 2016
Adebayo Salami (Oga Bello)
Salami ia. A legend in Nollywood industry.
He began his acting career in 1964 with a group called Young Concert Party, under the leadership of Ojo Ladipo, popularly known as Baba Mero. After a few years, the group changed its name to Ojo Ladipo Theatre Group, and later metamorphosed into Awada Kerikeri Theatre Group.[4] Following the demise of Ojo Ladipo in 1978, Salami took the mantle of leadership of the group, which brought him into the limelight.]

He featured in the first Yoruba film, Ajani Ogun, in which the late Adeyemi Afolayan, the father of Kunle Afolayan and Gabriel Afolayan, plays the lead role.

He also featured in a movie titled Kadara by Adeyemi Afolayan (Ade love). He later featured in the popular Nigerian comedy series Comedy half hour with the stage name Oga Bello.

He produced his first movie, Ogun Ajaye, in 1985, from the stable of Awada Kerikeri.

Since 1985, he has produced, directed and featured in several Yoruba movies.

He was a pioneer member of the Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioner and also served as president of the association.

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 9:54pm On May 20, 2016
Tony Tetulla
Anthony Olanrewaju Awotoye, better known as Tony Tetuila, is an Afro hip hop artist from Nigeria. . Formerly a member of The Remedies (along with Eedris Abdulkareem and Eddy Montana), he split with the group and has been successful as a solo artist.


Tony Tetuila emerged in 2014 running as a politician for Kwara State’s House of Assembly under the APC party

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 10:06pm On May 20, 2016
kunle Afolayan
unle Afolayan is of Igbomina-Yoruba descent, from Kwara State He is the son of the famous theater and film director and producer Ade Love. He majored in economics and started out working in a bank while doing some casual acting, before deciding to move into full-time filmmaking and taking a course at the New York Film Academy. Since 2005 he has been active in the Nigerian film industry. He has made several extremely popular titles including: The Figurine: Araromire which was in the Yoruba and English languages and Phone Swap which featured Nse Ikpe Etim and the legendary Chika Okpala. The Figurine won five major awards in the African Film Academy and experienced tremendous success in the Nigerian movie theaters

Kunle Afolayan appeared at the Subversive Film Festival in 2011 where he represented the second largest film industry in the world, the Nigerian film industry, with his colleague Zeb Ejiro. In May 2013, Phone Swap premiered in France at the first edition of NollywoodWeek Paris and won the Public Choice Award. Afolayan's father Adeyemi Josiah Afolayan (Ade-Love) was a renowned Nigerian artist of the second half of the 20th century. He worked in traveling theater and turned to the film making industry. Afolayan's father felt strongly about education and therefore Afolayan completed his studies in accounting

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by Larrey(f): 11:16pm On May 20, 2016
Fausat balogun alias Madam saje,
yinka quadri alias Masomo
Oluwatoyin afolayan alias Lola idije
Femi adebayo alias jelili

grin
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 11:25pm On May 20, 2016
Thanks
Larrey:
Fausat balogun alias Madam saje,
yinka quadri alias Masomo
Oluwatoyin afolayan alias Lola idije
Femi adebayo alias jelili

grin
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 11:30pm On May 20, 2016
Tunde Idiagbon
Babatunde "Tunde" Abdulbaki Idiagbon (14 September 1943 – 24 March 1999) was a Nigerian Army major general who served as chief of staff at Supreme Headquarters (de facto vice president) under the military regime of Major General Muhammadu Buhari from 1983 to 1985. He was also a key member of the Nigeria's military governments between 1966 and 1979, serving as a military administrator of Borno State under General Olusegun Obasanjo's military government. He died on 24 March 1999 in Ilorin, Kwara state, Nigeria. Idiagbon was one of Nigeria's egalitarian military leaders.

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by nikkypearl(f): 11:36pm On May 20, 2016
Interesting wink

Bet Lai Mohammed lipsrsealed grin
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 11:42pm On May 20, 2016
Ibrahim Chatta
Ibrahim Chatta is Nollywood actor who has features a number of films such as igba iwa

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by Nobody: 11:46pm On May 20, 2016
Bullets just flying about!!!!!
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 11:48pm On May 20, 2016
Ayinla Kollington
General Ayinla Kollington is a musician from Ilota, a village on the outskirt of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. He is also called Baba 'latika, Kebe-n-Kwara,Baba alagbado

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by Nobody: 11:48pm On May 20, 2016
lafex:
Kwara is a state in the midle belt of the federal republic of Nigeria. Its capital is Ilorin. Kwara state is blessed witha number of ethic groups and dialects which include Yoruba (major language), Nupe, Bariba, Barutin and Fulani among. Law is the major proffession in the state, infact it's the state with the highest number of lawyers in nigerian.
The state is blessed with a lot successful personels in different industries ranging from politics, music and nollywood among others

But how can law be the major profession of a state
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 11:52pm On May 20, 2016
Rashidi yekini
Rashidi Yekini (23 October 1963 – 4 May 2012) was a Nigerian footballer who played as a striker.

His professional career, which spanned more than two decades, was mainly associated with Vitória de Setúbal in Portugal, but he also played in six other countries his own notwithstanding.

Yekini scored 37 goals as a Nigerian international, and represented the nation in five major tournaments, including two World Cups where he scored the country's first-ever goal in the competition. He was also named the African Footballer of the Year in 1993

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 11:57pm On May 20, 2016
folksync:


But how can law be the major profession of a state
most of their educated ones read law and kwara has the highest number of barristers in Nigeria today
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 12:07am On May 21, 2016
Femi Adebayo
Femi Adebayo (born 31 December 1972) is a Nigerian lawyer, film actor, director and producer. He is the son of the veteran actor, Adebayo Salami
He began acting in 1995, the same year he featured in a Tade Ogidan movie titled Owo Blow.[6] He has starred in several Nigerian films,[quantify] winning four awards as Best Yoruba actor at the 17th African Film Awards popularly known as Afro Hollywood awards at the Stratford Town Hall in London. He also won an award in the same category for the Best of Nollywood Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria Awards in 2012. He has a long list of movies to his credits which includes the much anticipated Sonto Alapata, Wura Ati Fadaka, Ma Wobadan and Buga(a very funny one) just to mention a few. Femi is the MD/CEO of J-15 media network Nigeria. He has masters in law.

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 12:14am On May 21, 2016
Fausat Balogun
Fausat Balogun (also known as Madam Saje, born February 13, 1959) is a Nigerian actress who stars majorly in Yoruba movies She starred as Mama Saje in a 1990 television series titled Erin Kee Kee. Fausat has starred in over 80 movies.
Balogun is married to the actor Rafiu Balogun. He was her boss before they married. By the time she was famous her children were adults. Her eldest son is a director and her youngest daughter is an actress.

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 12:23am On May 21, 2016
Bola Shagaya
Hajia Bola Shagaya (born on the October 10, 1959) is a Nigerian businesswoman and fashion enthusiast. She is one of the richest women in Africa.

She started her career with the audit department of the Central Bank of Nigeria before venturing into commercial activities in 1983. Her business experience started with the importation and distribution of photographic materials and she introduced the Konica brand of photographic materials into the Nigerian market and West Africa.

Hajia Bola Shagaya is also the managing director of Practoil Limited, one of the largest importers and distributors of base oil in Nigeria, serving local lubricant blending plants. Her businesses also includes huge investment in real estate, spanning across major cities in the country with over three hundred employees.

She is currently on the board of Unity Bank (Nigeria) Plc[6] (formerly Intercity Bank) and has been for over eight years. She is also a member of the recently inaugurated Nepad Business Group – Nigeria. Hajia Bola Shagaya is a patron of the Fashion Designers Association of Nigeria, (FADAN), and a fashion and art enthusiast who supports and encourages the fashion and art industry. She also loves sports, especially polo. On the 22nd of July 2010, she was awarded by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GCFR), the title of Member of the Order of the Niger (MON).

Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by PRESTIGERHYMES(f): 6:47am On May 21, 2016
olatunjithomas:
undecidedfirst,the thread title talks about celebrities from Ilorin, now the thread itself is talking about lawyers. not even a cele was mentioned. later you'll say Buhari is clueless.
how did you even pass WAEC?
Horlah, u wicked small......Lols
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by PRESTIGERHYMES(f): 7:10am On May 21, 2016
folksync:


But how can law be the major profession of a state
probably becos dey ve d highest rate of crimes






lols

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Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by Nobody: 7:34am On May 21, 2016
PRESTIGERHYMES:
probably becos dey ve d highest rate of crimes






lols

grin You may be right!!!!!
Re: Celebrities You Don't Know Were From Kwara State(pics) by lafex: 7:37am On May 21, 2016
olatunjithomas:
undecidedfirst,the thread title talks about celebrities from Ilorin, now the thread itself is talking about lawyers. not even a cele was mentioned. later you'll say Buhari is clueless.
how did you even pass WAEC?
You are welcome. But am sure you are not in any way upto my standard in any manner.
If you can't accept typographical error then you are the most clueless person on earth

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