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    Abeokuta is the capital city of Ogun State in southwest Nigeria. It is situated on the east bank of the Ogun River, near a group of rocky outcrops in a...
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    Efunroye Tinubu (category Businesspeople from Abeokuta)
    merchants. Following the ascendancy of Oba Dosunnu, Dosunmu exiled Tinubu to Abeokuta under Campbell's pressure after Tinubu plotted unsuccessful conspiracies...
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  • Abeokuta North is a Local Government Area in Ogun State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Akomoje, near Abeokuta. It has an area of 808 km2...
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    Abeokuta South is a Local Government Area in Ogun State, Nigeria. The headquarters of the LGA are at Ake Abeokuta7°09′00″N 3°21′00″E / 7.15000°N 3.35000°E...
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    Alake of Egbaland is the paramount Yoruba king of the Egba, a clan in Abeokuta, Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria. Egba consists of Egba Ake, ,Oke-Ona...
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    Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1986, lives in Ogun. Abeokuta is both Ogun State's capital and most populous city and the capital of...
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    Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (category Politicians from Abeokuta)
    Fumilayo Ransome Kuti was born in Abeokuta in what is now in Ogun State, and was the first female student to attend the Abeokuta Grammar School. As a young adult...
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    The Lagos–Abeokuta Expressway is an 81-kilometre-long (50 mi) expressway connecting Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, and Ikeja, the capital of Lagos...
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  • The Abeokuta Women's Revolt (also called the Egba Women's Tax Riot) was a resistance movement led by the Abeokuta Women's Union (AWU) in the late 1940s...
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    The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta is one of the higher institutions of learning owned and run by the Federal government of Nigeria. The Federal...
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  • Federal College of Education Abeokuta (FCEA) (formerly known as Federal Advanced Teachers College) is a public institution authorized with issuance of...
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  • Gateway United FC is a football club based in Abeokuta, Ogun State. They play in the second division of the Nigeria league system, (Nigeria National League)...
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  • 1. Abeokuta North Akomoje 2 * Abeokuta North West Lafenwa 3*. Abeokuta North East Ita Iyalode 4.* Oke Ogun Imala 5. Abeokuta South Ake 6.*Abeokuta South...
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  • located in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State in Nigeria, since its establishment in February 1976 from part of the former Western State. Abeokuta Girls'...
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    Abeokuta Grammar School is a secondary school in the city of Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. It is currently located at Idi-Aba area, of Abeokuta. Often...
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  • Ogun State is one of the 36 States of Nigeria with Abeokuta as the state capital. This list of tertiary institutions in Ogun State includes universities...
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    The Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Abeokuta came into existence on 21 April 1983, when the state hospital, Idi-Aba, was handed over to the federal government...
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    the city of Abeokuta was founded as a safe-haven for people to be free of slave raiding in an easily defended location. By the 1840s, Abeokuta had become...
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    Dam is in Abeokuta North local government area of Ogun State in the West of Nigeria, about 20 km north west of the state capital Abeokuta. The dam crosses...
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  • 35 Ago-Oba is electoral ward 13 in the city of Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. It is part of the Abeokuta South Local Government Area. Has about 250 Village...
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    The Abeokuta flyover is a flyover in the city of Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria. The flyover was constructed at Ibara roundabout...
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  • at Abeokuta Grammar School, her meeting with- and marriage to Israel Ransome-Kuti, her career as an educationist and the formation of the Abeokuta Women's...
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    returnees mostly resided in the Lagos Colony, with substantial populations in Abeokuta and Ibadan. Some also settled in Calabar, Port Harcourt and other cities...
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  • Hospital, Lantoro Abeokuta is the first Nigerian hospital which was established in 1895 by the Catholic Church mission to Abeokuta through Reverend Father...
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    Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti (category People from Abeokuta)
    Nigerian clergyman and educationist. Israel was born on 30 April 1891 in Abeokuta, Ogun State to Josiah Ransome-Kuti and Bertha Anny Olubi. He completed...
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    suitable site for the settlement of black Americans in West Africa. A site at Abeokuta (in modern-day Nigeria) was selected and the expedition returned to the...
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    Catholic Church, located in Abeokuta, capital of Ogun State, Nigeria.[self-published source] It is the seat of the Diocese of Abeokuta (Dioecesis Abeokutanus)...
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    Central Senatorial District comprises six local government areas: Abeokuta North, Abeokuta South, Ewekoro, Ifo, Obafemi Owode and Odeda local governments...
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  • The Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Abeokuta, is a secondary school located in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. The school is an all-boys boarding school...
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    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Abeokuta (Latin: Abeokutan(us)) is a diocese located in the city of Abeokuta in the ecclesiastical province of Lagos in Nigeria...
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