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An interesting example is sheraton hotels land owned by a family that kept it in their generations for profit, and Ayinke house a hospital donated to Lagos state dedicated to women in delivery in lagos named after mobolaji Bank Anthony's mother,( both on the same street) named mobolaji Bank Anthony in ikeja. Imagine how much sheraton family has made till date,imagine how many lives Ayinke house has saved.

Till today individuals are not donating such facilities for saving mothers at birth despite the high rate of maternal deaths in Nigeria. However expect that a clown will come one day and say the name of the facility is not good enough for some reason.

Yorubas honor the legacy of great people and we don't forget our benefactors

la1:
Is it open to the public yet?.. love to visit with my kids

Yeah

SonofLagos:
you must have quoted the wrong person because I really don’t understand why you directing your anger at me

My apology if I misquoted you.

Wow! This is mind blowing and extremely awesome. Hausas and Igbos have lost bearing concerning their Cultural heritages. Wow!

anonimi:
Is this the Yoruba meaning of the names John and Randle

Ho and ask Google.

To cure the collective migraine of , ahem , the YORUBA life antagonists , the late JOHN RANDLE that the museum is named after was a yoruba philantrophist and just one among the very first medical doctors from west africa to graduate from a british university . His father was an OYO born liberated slave settled in sierra leone . We know this info will only increase the migraine caused by the anti-yoruba malignant tumor eating away at their brain [ that also caused their inability to pause and verify ] , but who cares about the condition of one less sewer rat ?
Next , they'll be frothing from the mouth when a cultural center in Ogun state is named after the ADUNNI Olorisha herself SUSAN WENGER ! And their grandfather's name is Paulinus !

Tinubu should bring ambode back,he is the real deal.

Focusmind:
I love the architecture of the building. I was expecting to see the normal Nigerian kind of structure.

credit to ambode he was such a stylish governor.

udomonday:
credit to ambode he was such a stylish governor.

You got it!!! All his signature buildings and structures are totally different from a typical government buildings. See the Oshodi interchange, even though I considered it an over built and other of his legacy structures. His Structures are more of arts and aesthetically appealing than normal building

Focusmind:
You got it!!! All his signature buildings and structures are totally different from a typical government buildings. See the Oshodi interchange, even though I considered it an over built and other of his legacy structures. His Structures are more of arts and aesthetically appealing than normal building

yeah,he is so artistic and stylish,check out the ark works and paintings he did under the bridges in Lagos,go to onikan stadium and you will see his signature,even at ajah bridge his artistic style is obvious,I just wish tinubu should bring him back to complete his dream of leaving an indelible mark in Lagos.

chopnaira:
Don't Ijaw answer English name. Even Crowther was an English name and it did not make him less of a Yoruba.

I am sure you were one of those that rooted for GRV. Is Rhodes -Vivour a Yoruba name?

You intentionally left out Gbadebo from his name, snake🤨

chopnaira:
We learnt from our noisy neighbors to the east of the Niger river.

Hahaha......

I like this

Lanrelagboi:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/30/john-randle-centre-yoruba-culture-lagos-nigeria

Bump.

As a Norwegian scholar who has spent decades studying Yoruba civilisation — its origins, spiritual frameworks, oral philosophy, and social organisation — I view the John Randle Centre as both an inspiring and revealing project. It celebrates Yoruba identity with colour and confidence, but it also exposes a deeper truth about how “tradition” is being reinterpreted in modern Nigeria.

From a European perspective, it is fascinating to watch how a culture once grounded in strict cosmology, spiritual hierarchy, and communal ethics is now being refashioned through modern ideals. The irony, however, lies in the way so many contemporary Nigerians claim to be “unapologetically traditional” while quietly abandoning many of the core traditions that defined Yoruba civilisation.

Across time, numerous elements have been set aside or softened — the spiritual and political authority of the Ifá priesthood, the societal functions of the Ogboni council, ancestral veneration through ritual sacrifice, gendered rites of passage, arranged marriages, and the original meaning of kinship duties and taboos. All these, once sacred to Yoruba identity, are now considered “outdated” or incompatible with human rights and modern living.

None of this is to condemn progress. Every civilisation evolves. But intellectual honesty demands acknowledgment: what is being practised today is not the ancient Yoruba culture, but a modern, curated version of it. It is a selective revival that retains the aesthetics — the language, the drumming, the deities — while discarding much of the cosmological substance that gave them context.

As a European, I find this tension deeply familiar. Europe too has romanticised its medieval traditions while living far removed from their realities. But the difference is that Europeans generally acknowledge the historical distance between past and present. In Nigeria, however, there is often a claim that the modern expression is the original one — that cultural pride and historical continuity are the same. They are not.

You cannot claim to practise ancient Yoruba tradition while filtering it through 21st-century moral frameworks. That is not continuity — it is adaptation. And adaptation is not shameful; it is natural. But it should be recognised as such.

The Yoruba culture of today is a remarkable, living reinterpretation — vibrant, global, creative — yet it is not the same culture its ancestors lived by. To honour those ancestors truthfully is to admit that modern Yoruba identity is not preservation, but transformation. Only by acknowledging that difference can cultural pride be rooted in honesty rather than illusion.

It is good to know how to read and write. It will help you to relate well in the society, carryout your daily activities and save you from lots of embarrassment. Also, it will prepare you for future opportunities.