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*NULASS UNILAG PRESENTS THE 2017/18 LAGOS STATE BURSARY AND SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION FOR ALL LAGOS STATE INDIGENES*

Esteemed Lagosians,

We are glad to announce to you that the sale of forms and ultimately, application for the 2017/2018 Lagos State Bursary and Local Scholarship Award will commence on *Monday, 16/10/2017*

*TeamCommonSense* would like to appreciate every Nulassaite for being patient hitherto and believing in our ability to deliver irrespective of the surrounding uncertainty. We assure everyone that it would be nothing less than a profitable investment of trust.

In this vein, every Nulassaite interested in obtaining the forms for either the Bursary or Local Scholarship Award or both through NULASS UNILAG would be required to pay;
N1000 for the bursary form alongside an administrative fee of N500 totaling a sum of *One thousand,five hundred naira Only (N1500)*. This is open to all Lagos State Students.

N2000 for the local scholarship form alongside an Administrative fee of N500 totaling a sum of *Two thousand, five hundred naira only (N2500).* This has a minimum CGPA requirement of 3.50/5.00

*Please note that the administrative fee will cover for the cost of transport to and from the points of purchase (Ikeja and Iyanapaja) and it will also cover for the cost of delivery of the pin to the applicants. It includes also the support service we'd provide during application process.*

*All payments* should be made to the
*Treasurer-Elect, Nul. Adedo Lukman: 08189514515 ;*

*Fin Sec-Elect, Nul. Anjola Awojobi: 08183375788;*

*Welfare Sec-Elect, Nul. Molade Khadijat: 08038803600.*

Forms would be purchased at the point of sale on a weekly basis i.e every thursday until the closing date and the pin for registration will be made available to everyone immediately after purchase for registration to commence.

_*We beseech every Nulassaite to pay as soon as possible to avoid regular hassles at the point of sale.*_

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*For NULASS UNILAG:*
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Afonja

How Afonja (Yorubas) lost the Ilorin throne

The rivalry between the Fulani and Afonja descendants over the throne of Ilorin is rooted in history.

While the Fulani rest the case of their claim to the kingship of the ancient town on the fact that the monarch had from the time immemorial been produced by them, the Afonja descendants, who like majority of the people of the town are Yoruba, say since their ancestor founded Ilorin, their claim to the throne ought not to be disputed.

History appears in support of the former’s position although the progenitor of the Fulani indigenes of Ilorin, Alimi, was actually a tenant to Afonja.

The death of Afonja and Alimi, however, saw the eldest son of the latter emerging as the first monarch of what was then known as Ilorin.

Historical sources, tracing the story to the 19th Century, said Ilorin of today was founded by Afonja, the then Aare Ona Kakanfo (Generalisimo) to Alaafin of old Oyo (Oyo Ile), who used the town as his military outpost.  It was this outpost that he carried out his war expeditions for the Alaafin. In the usual nomadic wandering, Alimi arrived Ilorin and was hosted by Afonja. Soon after Alimi took Ilorin as his place of abode, a rift broke out between Alaafin and Afonja. When the disagreement reached the climax and the two had to take up arms, Afonja, out of regard for Alimi’s spiritual and military prowess, sought his support. Alimi helped in mobilising an army in support of Afonja leading to victory over Alaafin. The defeat led the then Alaafin migrating from old Oyo to the site now called Oyo.

After the war, Alimi became a teacher to Afonja’s children as the latter wanted his offsprings to learn the secret of power. When both died, Alimi’s son, Abdulsalami, inherited his father’s duty of teaching Afonja’s children.

When the idea of appointing somebody to head the village came, the eldest child of Afonja wanted to have the position but met opposition from Abdulsalami who had military support from his fellow Fulani kinsmen. Abdulsalami ultimately became the ruler of what is now called Ilorin around 1831.

The issue now is that Afonja’s descendants believe that their forefathers were cheated and want a redress. But the Alimi people are claiming that the Afonja people never ruled Ilorin and, as such, no precedent exists to back their position.

Penultimate week’s incident was not the first time the Afonja and the Yoruba would attempt to assert their right to Ilorin kingship.

Historical sources said in 1895, the Yoruba rose against the then emir, burnt his palace and killed him. But the revolt did not result in enthronement of a Yoruba king. In 1913, when Lord Lugard administered the northern and southern Nigeria, Yoruba were said to have spearheaded a riot over tax to bring the rulership of the then emir to ridicule. In 1936, the Yoruba, according to sources, also moved to oust Emir Abdulkadir who was banished to Kaduna but got reinstated by the colonial administration.

In 1978, the George Innih administration of Kwara State raised a judicial panel of inquiry to look into the Yoruba agitation.

The Yoruba people reportedly made a case for the merging of Kwara State with the Southwest before the commission while also laying claim to the Ilorin throne. It was said they even claimed antecedent to the throne as they allegedly said Yoruba had produced four obas in Ilorin before the advent of the Fulani. But the Alimi people, in a counter position, claimed there was no known Yoruba king in the town before their forefather mounted the throne.

The report of the panel never saw the light of day while there was also no white paper from government.

A twist to the tussle was the recent petition by three of the six Yoruba chiefs (mogajis) in Ilorin to the State House of Assembly complaining that they had been classified as ungraded by government allegedly at the behest of the emir. Their non-grading, according to the chiefs, suited the emir, so that there would be no rivalry of any sort from the Yoruba to his authority. Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union (IDPU), formed to protect the interest Ilorin indigenes who are of Fulani extraction, once in its opposition to the upgrading of the chiefs, said dong so would bring them at par with Gambari. But the Afonja Descendants Union (ADU) which came on stream in 1978 to advance the cause of the Yoruba in the town and with Kasumu as its leader would hear none of that. The group is allegedly pressuring the legislature to grade the chiefs.

Another angle to the agitation is the demand for Oya State that will comprise the Yoruba speaking areas of Kwara and Kogi States. The move, it was said, is to pull the rug from under the feet of the emir and end the Fulani rulership of Ilorin.

The Yoruba people of Ilorin are not alone in the struggle. The pan-Yoruba meeting which took place in Ibadan last year demanded restructuring of Kwara State such that Ilorin would be grouped with the Southwest. Analysts interpreted this to mean that the parley did not believe that any emir had any business on Ilorin throne.

Ogeni Oja

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Brief history of Saki

Brief history of Saki

Originally part of the old Oyo Empire, Saki became a Yoruba refugee settlement after the destruction in 1835 of Old Oyo (Katunga), 70 miles (113 km) east-northeast, by Muslim Fulani conquerors. For those who are unfamiliar with its history, Saki occupies a very important place among Yoruba towns.

According to the famous Yoruba historian, the Reverend Samuel Johnson, the Okere’s (the king’s) palace at Saki was built “on the very spot” on which the corpse of Ofinran, a deceased Alaafin born of a Bariba woman fell down and “had to be bound up afresh before they (the funeral cortege) could proceed”. The funeral train was on its way to old Oyo from Igboho, the new capital of the Oyo Empire. It would be recalled that after the fall of old Oyo (‘Eyeo’ or ‘Katunga’) to an invading Fulani army from Ilorin circa 1837, an Alaafin, Eguguojo moved his palace up north to Igboho, northwest of Saki. Hence, and today, close to Igboho and within the precincts of the old Oyo Games Reserve lie the burial tombs of four Alaafins: – Eguguojo, Orompoto, Ajiboyede, and Abipa.

However, another historian, late Chief Ojo, the Bada of Shaki gave the meaning of the town’s name as “Sa-kiri”, meaning ‘a fleeing refugee’. The fleeing refugees, according to sources finally found a respite on the Asabari Hill located in the town. Hence, the ‘oriki’ praise – name of a Shaki indigene is incomplete without the addition of ‘Omo Asabari’, (‘son of Asabari’)

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Saturday, 21st October, 2017.

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Saturday, 21st October, 2017.

Beautiful Morning To Our Cherished Readers At Home.


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Senate to probe Paris Club refunds, others

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