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Great men and women

Okotie-eboh was a pioneer in corruption in government.

Where's Dino Melaye

Thanks op. Very educative

Ifesinachi22:
Where's Dino Melaye

In Tinubu's House

Beautiful people

Murtala Muhammad way Yaba?
Adeola Odeku Victory Island?
Bab Animashaun Surulere?
Toyin street Ikeja?

psychologist:
So nbadiwe dint make ya list

Popular Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue Eti- Osa

Good work @ OP
These were names of people that fought for the unity of this nation and want Nigeria to be great unlike bunch of Morons we have now that kept on discussing COW matter against the development of this nation.

autojosh:
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Adeniji Adele Road, Lagos

Oba Musendiku Buraimoh Adeniji Adele II was born on November 13, 1893. He was the Oba of Lagos from October 1, 1949 to July 12, 1964.

Oba Adele II was an ardent supporter of the Nigerian Youth Movement. He was also a member of the Obafemi Awolowo-led E gbe Omo Oduduwa.

His political affiliation was therefore in opposition to the ruling NCNC/NNDP (whose political bedrock was the House of Docemo) founded by Herbert Macaulay and later led by Nnamdi Azikiwe.

NNDP was opposed to Oba Adele’s ascension as Oba of Lagos, him not being descended from Dosunmu. They then filed legal challenges to thwart his coronation.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England finally sustained Oba Adele’s right to the throne in 1957. He died on July 12, 1964.

Adeniji-Adele road on Lagos Island was named after him.


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Lateef Jakande Road, Ikeja

Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande was on born 23 July 1929. He was a journalist who later delved into politics.

In 1949 Jakande began a career in journalism. In 1953, he joined the Nigerian Tribune. In 1956 he was appointed editor-in-chief of the Tribune by the owner Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

After leaving the Tribune in 1975, Jakande established John West Publications and began to publish The Lagos News. He served as the first President of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN).

Encouraged by Awolowo, he ran for election as executive governor of Lagos State in 1979, on the Unity Party of Nigeria platform. He won. He became governor of Lagos State from 1979 to 1983.

As governor, he introduced housing and educational programs targeting the poor, building new neighbourhood primary and secondary schools and providing free primary and secondary education. He established the Lagos State University. Jakande’s government constructed over 30,000 housing units. The schools and housing units were built cheaply, but were of great value. Some of the housing units include low cost estates in Amuwo-Odofin, Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry.

He also completed the construction of the General Hospital in Gbagada and Ikorodu and built about 20 health centres within the state.

He also started a metroline project to facilitate mass transit. The project was halted by the Gen, Buhari-led military regime. his tenure as Governor ended when the military seized power on 31 December 1983.

After the military take-over in 1983, Jakande was charged, prosecuted and convicted of treason, although later he was pardoned.

He became the Minister of Works under the Sani Abacha military regime (1993–98).

His decision to serve as Minister under Abacha which earned him some criticism. However, his association with Abacha handicapped his career in politics after the restoration of democracy in 1999.

A road in Ikeja was named after him.


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Herbert Macaulay Way, Yaba

Olayinka Herbert Samuel Heelas Badmus Macaulay was born on 14 November 1864.

He was a Nigerian nationalist, politician, engineer, architect, journalist, and musician. Many Nigerians also considered him as the founder of Nigerian nationalism. He was one of the first leaders of the Nigerian opposition to British colonial rule.

In 1944 Macaulay co-founded the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) together with Nnamdi Azikiwe and became its president.

The NCNC was a patriotic organization designed to bring together Nigerians of all stripes to demand independence.

In 1946 Macaulay fell ill in Kano and later died in Lagos. He died on the 7 May 1946.

A popular road in Yaba was named after him.



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Obafemi Awolowo Way/Road (Ikeja, Ikoyi)

Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo was born on 6 March 1909. He was a Nigerian nationalist and political leader. He played a key role in Nigeria’s independence movement and the First and Second Republics.

Like some of his well-known contemporaries, as a nationalist in the Nigerian Youth Movement, Awolowo rose to become Western Provincial Secretary.

He was the first premier of the Western Region from 1952 to 1959, and later federal Commissioner for Finance. During the Nigerian Civil War, he was made the vice chairman of the Federal Executive Council. He was thrice a major contender for President of Nigeria.

Awolowo was responsible for much of the progressive social legislation that has made Nigeria a modern nation.

He was the official Leader of the Opposition in the federal parliament to the Balewa government from 1959 to 1963. In recognition of all these, Awolowo was the first individual in the modern era to be named Leader of the Yorubas (Yoruba: Asiwaju Awon Yoruba or Asiwaju Omo Oodua).

He died in 9 May 1987.

Several landmarks, streets and roads were named after him. Notable ones include the Obafemi Awolowo Way in Ikeja and Obafemi Awolowo road in Ikoyi.

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Ajose Adeogun Road, Victoria Island

Justice Olatunji Ajose-Adeogun was born in 1924. He was a retired Justice of the Court of Appeal and the Baba Oba Agba – Ilu of Lagos. (The Kings traditional father & distinguished Elder of Lagos).

He was the then Secretary/Legal Officer of the then Lagos Executive Development Board now (LSDPC) from 1955 -1961. He was in the same year appointed to the Foreign Service of the Federal Ministry of Justice along with ten other Lawyers to assist the New Republic of Malawi (formerly Nyasaland). The assistance extended to Tanzania and Uganda.

Ajose-Adeogun was eventually appointed by the Malawi Government as it Director of Public Prosecution for four years in that capacity before returning to Nigeria in 1968.

He was appointed as a Judge in the Lagos State Judiciary from 1975 to 1985. In 1985, he was appointed as a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal from where he voluntarily retired in 1987.

Few years after leaving the Judiciary he was appointed by the Federal Government as the Lagos State Public Complaints Commissioner from 1990-1996. Within the same period, he was in 1992 appointed to serve as Chairman National Election Tribunals in Niger and Enugu State.

Ajose Adeogun died on December 13, 2017. A street in Victoria Island was named in his honour.


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Nnamdi Azikiwe Street, Lagos Island

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe was born on 16 November, 1904.

He was a journalist, nationalist, Pan-Africanist, political leader and newspaper entrepreneur.

Nnamdi Azikiwe, or Zik, was the first President of Nigeria from 1963 to 1966. throughout the Nigerian First Republic.

He is popularly considered a driving force behind the Nigeria’s independence and came to be known as the “father of Nigerian Nationalism”.

In British West Africa, Azikiwe was an important advocate of Nigerian and African nationalism, first as a journalist and later as political leader.

He died on 11 May 1996.

A famous road on Lagos Island was named in his honour.


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Muhammadu Ribadu Road, Ikoyi

Muhammadu Ribadu was born in 1909. He was a Nigerian politician and former Minister of Defence.

In 1952, he was made Minister for Natural Resources as part of an indigenous Council of Ministers.

In 1954, he was elected as the second Vice-President of Northern People’s Congress (NPC) and became literally, the third most powerful Northern Nigerian leader behind Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa.

He was the federal Minister of Land, Mines and Power in 1954, and in 1959, he was made the federal Minister of Land and Lagos Affairs. In 1960, during the First Republic, he was appointed the Nigerian Minister of Defense.

Till date, he’s still being remembered as one of the most outstanding Defense Minister Nigeria ever had.

On May 1, 1965, he was to be honoured along with the then Prime Minister, Alhaji (Sir) Abubakar Tafawa Balewa by the then Premier of Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello with gold medals of the Usmamiya order in Kaduna. He died on the morning of that day at the age of 55.

A road in Ikoyi was named after him.


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Karimu Ikotun Street, Victoria Island

Karimu Kotun was born in Lagos in 1881. He was a Nigerian businessman and trade ambassador. He was involved in trade across the Nigerian landscape during the dawn of the twentieth century. He started his business venture in 1896 after completing his studies. He was mostly involved in trading Cotton and was successful in the business. This led to his appointment as agents for two British firms in Liverpool and Manchester. He later left the services of the firms and worked on his own account as an independent trader.

Karimu Kotun was also the president of the Muslim Cricket Club in Lagos and President of the Alowolagba Society. In 1919, he succeeded Aldolphus Martins as the private secretary of the Oba of Lagos, Eshugbayi Eleko.




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Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island

Prof. Akinpelu Oludele Adesola was born on November 1927. He was a professor of Surgery, educational administrator.

Akin Adesola started as a lecturer at the University College Hospital Ibadan. In 1967, he became a Professor and Head of Department at the University of Lagos Medical School.

He died on May 2010. A street in Victoria Island was named after him.



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Kudirat Abiola Way, Ikeja

Alhaja Kudirat Abiola (née Adeyemi) was born in 1951. She was the wife of Moshood Abiola. Her husband was the winning candidate in Nigerian elections and he was arrested shortly after the elections.

On 4 June 1996, she was assassinated whilst her husband, Moshood Abiola was being detained by the Sani Abacha-led Government.

At the time of her death, an anti-military rule “Radio Democracy” had just been created. The radio station was based in Norway. It was backed by the American, British, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian governments to help end military dictatorship in Nigeria. The Radio station’s name was changed to Radio Kudirat, in honour of Kudirat Abiola.

Also in her honour, the popular Oregun Road in Ikeja was rename after her.


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Alfred Rewane Road, Ikoyi

Alfred Rewane was born on 24 August 1916. He was a businessman, statesman and political activist.

In the 1940s, after a brief working stint at UAC, he ventured into the business of importing goods, especially cow bones and black pepper. Later in the 1950s, he went into the timber trade. He owned the Rex club in Yaba, Lagos where Bobby Benson was a regular musician.

He was a close associate of Obafemi Awolowo.

During the pre-independence era in Nigeria, Rewane was affiliated with the Action Group. he became the chairman of the Western Nigeria Development Company which was controlled by the Action Group led regional government.

In the 70’s, Rewane promoted a series of businesses in Sapele partnership with the Seaboard Group of the United States. The companies included Life Flour mills, West African Shrimps and Top Feeds.

In the 1990s,’Rewane’s residence in Lagos was the venue of political meetings that led to the formation of NADECO. He was a major financier of NADECO , the group was vocal in its opposition to the military regime of Sani Abacha.

Alfred Rewane was assassinated on October 6, 1995 at his residence in Ikeja, Lagos.

The popular Kingsway Road road in Ikoyi was renamed Alfred Rewane Road


Saka Tinubu Street, Victoria Island

He was a businessman and a prominent Muslim personality in Lagos in the early 20th century.

He was the patriarch of a Lagos family who embraced various Islamic causes especially within the Ahmadiyya movement.

In the 1910s, he was one of the founders of the Ahmadiyya movement in Lagos. He became the movement’s president in 1927.

Prior to his presidency, the movement had lost a keen supporter in Muhammed Basil Agusto who led a faction to form the Islamic Society of Nigeria and also left the movement without a meeting place. Saka lent the movement his house to hold meetings.


Elsie Femi Pierce Street

Elsie Femi-Pearse was a Nigerian politician and one of the earliest women elected in a Nigerian election when she won a seat as an area council candidate to the Lagos Town Council in a 1955 local election. She was on the council for 10 years. She was also a board member of the Lagos Board of Education.

Hmm see our heroes past. I miss my History books. Familiar with all of the roads. Very lovely thread ,will save it for my sons. Welldone OP. Lagos was former Fed capital of Nigeria,,and thati how I still see my Lagos

solutionist:
So informative. Autojosh. You are doing a great work.

Meanwhile, even Bola Tinubu has a road named after him. Yet no one find it not curious that MKO Abiola doesn't have a MAJOR road named after him?

These is a place where there was wild jubilation when Buhari declared May 29 as democracy day. The same Lagos where people demonized GEJ for attempting to rename UNILAG in honour of MKO. They didn't even deem it fit to immortalize MKO a road named after him.

Hypocrites!

MKO garden nko

Maket:
I would have been shocked if i didn't see Ahmedu Bello Way
His street is always in the heart of the town and one of the longest street that is usually named after him.
Some state like plateau had renamed the street after their indigenous person.
The north always getting good point in the south yet you can go to the north and see a good street name after someone from another religion.
The same thing goes to building of churches and mosques. In the north churches are confirmed to specific location and not supported by governors
Go to the south you see mosques every corners, some built by the governors.

Streets are not named by who is South or who is North, but as a recognition of the contribution an individual made to the country to the locality and to the world. Why do you want to regionalize and tribalize everything?

OP, how can you omit Kudurat Abiola way? Don't make our female folks swear for u bro

Autojosh, thumbs up for a wonderful work u are doing.

continentalceo:
First to comment after many years on nairaland. Doesn't feel like an achievement though. This guy practically lives on nairaland. Makes me wonder what time he does his grilling business. That nigga nah just another undercover BMC crew. If you doubt me ask yourself this question, how can a cook that claims to reside in canada, be more active on the political section of nairaland?

Not everything people tell you about them is true and your personal judgement is sound. Nobody is a magician or has the ability to be omnipresent.

psychologist:
So nbadiwe dint make ya list

Ozumba Mbadiwe is on the list.

This educative piece will go down as one of the best posts ever on Nairaland. Well done, AutoJosh.

What has he contributed to humanity and to the development of Nigeria as a nation

DONSMITH123:
Where is my Name on the list?

Autojosh this is thorough. You are a true journalist.

peacengine:
OP, how can you omit Kudurat Abiola way? Don't make our female folks swear for u bro

its there

I thought I will see the real Tinubu there and not the corrupt ojuyobo.

The real Tinubu,

Efunroye Tinubu, iya olola ni iya wa

Eko o ni gbagbe re fun se ribiribi ti o se

Madam Efunroye Tinubu (c. 1810 – 1887), born Efunporoye Osuntinubu[1], was a politically significant figure in Nigerian history because of her role as a powerful female aristocrat and slave trader in pre-colonial and colonial Nigeria. She was a major figure in Lagos during the reigns of Obas Adele, Oluwole, Akitoye and Dosunmu. Efunroye Tinubu was unaware of the differences in European and African slavery when she partnered with the British to trade Africans. However, once she learned of the horrific nature of European slavery, she made it her life’s mission to stop Africans from selling other Africans to Europeans. She was successful in getting many African kings to outlaw the practice.

A very informative post,a break away from the usual bs that do grace front page. Op,thumb up to you,you did well. Bless you for this post.

I will not respect Ambode until he honours Fashola as a former governor of the state. He should name a street after him.

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Why couldn't GEJ name Aso Rock villa after Abiola? Why naming a project in the South West after him whereas he died for the whole nation?
University of Lagos is an icon and a brand on it's own. This was the argument.
It's like renaming Harvard, MIT, Oxford or Cambridge.
This is not because of hatered for Jonathan. Even many of his party members were against the move.

solutionist:
So informative. Autojosh. You are doing a great work.

Meanwhile, even Bola Tinubu has a road named after him. Yet no one find it not curious that MKO Abiola doesn't have a MAJOR road named after him?

These is a place where there was wild jubilation when Buhari declared May 29 as democracy day. The same Lagos where people demonized GEJ for attempting to rename UNILAG in honour of MKO. They didn't even deem it fit to immortalize MKO a road named after him.

Hypocrites!

femi4:
MKO garden nko

Even the map you uploaded doesn't consider the "street" important enough to be labeled on it.

Maket:
I would have been shocked if i didn't see Ahmedu Bello Way
His street is always in the heart of the town and one of the longest street that is usually named after him.

Some state like plateau had renamed the street after their indigenous person.

The north always getting good point in the south yet you can go to the north and see a good street name after someone from another religion.

The same thing goes to building of churches and mosques. In the north churches are confirmed to specific location and not supported by governors

Go to the south you see mosques every corners, some built by the governors.

Just like you occupied media houses

Now this is what I call a thread. There should be one named after fela though

Ozumba Mbadiwe is on the list.

psychologist:
So nbadiwe dint make ya list

solutionist:
Even the map you uploaded doesn't consider the "street" important enough to be labeled on it.

you just want to disgrace yourself here

The Only Street In America With Nigeria Name

femi4:
you just want to disgrace yourself here

Lol.

I submit. You are right.

Zooming deeper, we can see an 800 meters road named after him. Kudos to the authorities.

This is when we used to have leaders that cares about her people not the ones we have at the moment with analog, old, useless fool good for nothing leader.