Adetokunbo Ademola Street
Named after Omoba Sir Adetokunbo Adegboyega Ademola (1 February 1906 – 29 January 1993) who was the Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1958 to 1972. He was appointed as Chief Justice on 1 April 1958, replacing Sir Stafford Foster Sutton making him the first Nigerian Chief Justice since colonization. Sir Adetokunbo was born on February 1, 1906, into royalty as the son of Prince Ladapo and Princess Tejumade Ademola. His father was a regent of the Egba United Government in Lagos and later became Ademola II, the Alake of Egbaland, Abeokuta, a historic walled city of the Egbas in Ogun State.
Bourdillon Road
Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon GCMG KBE (1883–1948) was a British colonial administrator who was Governor of Uganda (1932–1935) and of Nigeria (1935–1943). Bernard Bourdillon initiated and laid the foundation of federalism in Nigeria in 1939 by creating three provinces (Northern, Eastern and Western). Lagos, the capital, was effectively governed as an unofficial fourth region outside the bounds of the Western Region. He later handed over the constitution to his successor Arthur Richards and it became the Richards Constitution of 1946.
Macpherson Avenue
Sir John Stuart Macpherson, GCMG (25 August 1898 – 5 November 1971) was a British colonial administrator who served as the Governor-General of Nigeria from 1948 to 1955. After World War I, Macpherson entered the Malayan Civil Service. Between 1933 and 1935 he was seconded to the Colonial Office. He was appointed Principal Assistant Secretary in Nigeria in 1937 and Chief Secretary of Palestine in 1939, serving there until 1943. In 1948, Macpherson was appointed Governor of Nigeria (Governor-General from 1954), serving in that post until his retirement in 1955.
Alfred Rewane
Alfred Rewane (August 24, 1916 – October 6, 1995) was a Nigerian businessman. Rewane started his career as a manager trainee with UAC and became the beach master, Lagos Customs Wharf for the firm. “In the 1940s he left UAC and focused on importing goods, especially cow bones and black pepper and then in the 1950s, he was also into the timber trade and he owned the Rex club in Yaba. During the pre-independence era in Nigeria, Rewane was affiliated with the Action Group,[5] he became the chairman of the Western Nigeria Development Company which was controlled by the Action Group led regional government. He was murdered on October 6, 1995 at his residence in Ikeja, Lagos. The popular Kingsway Road road in Ikoyi was renamed Alfred Rewane Road.
Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue
Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe (1915–1990) was a Nigerian nationalist, politician, statesman and government minister in the Nigerian First Republic. After returning from the U.S., he started another business and established a research institute on African Arts. He soon entered the Nigerian political scene and joined the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons. In 1951, he was elected into the Eastern Region House of Assembly. He was re-elected in 1954, and made minister for Lands and National Resources shortly thereafter. In 1957, he was made the Minister for Commerce. However, his political success was to undergo a great challenge when in mid-1958, he and Kola Balogun attempted to remove Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe as the leader of National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC). Mbadiwe set up his own newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, as an organ of protest. He later re-joined the party and was appointed Minister for Trade and Communications and also served as a special adviser to the Prime Minister, advising on African affairs.
Adeniji Adele Road
Oba Sir Musendiku Buraimoh Adeniji Adele II, KBE (13 November 1893 – 12 July 1964) was the 20th Oba of Lagos from 1 October 1949 to 12 July 1964. He was awarded the titles of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1956) and Knight of the Order of the British Empire (1962) by the Queen of the United Kingdom.
Okotie Eboh Close
Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh (18 July 1912 – 15 January 1966) was a Nigerian politician and Minister of Finance during the administration of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. In 1951, after some influence from Azikiwe, he contested for a seat and was elected to the Western Region House of Assembly.[8] In 1954, he was elected treasurer of the N.C.N.C. and was successful as the party’s candidate to represent Warri division in the House of Representatives.[9] He was nominated as the Federal Minister of Labour and Welfare in January, 1955, and two years later, he was made Finance Minister. Okotie-Eboh was assassinated along with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa in the military coup of January 15, 1966, which terminated the Nigerian First Republic, and thus civilian rule.
Akin Adesola Street
Akinpelu Oludele Adesola (6 November 1927 – 29 May 2010) was a Nigerian professor of Surgery, educational administrator and former vice chancellor of the University of Lagos. His father was Chief Bamgboye Fasina Adesola MBE, (Bariyun of Isaga and Bajito of Ibara, Abeokuta). In 1935 he joined Saint Jude’s School in Ebute-Metta, Lagos where he was actively involved in the Sunday School Choir. The Adesola household which had a strong Christian foundation was filled with music lovers who enjoyed, played and sang church hymns. As Vice Chancellor, he had a reputation as “Mr. Task Force”, “the Committee VC”, “Action Man”, “The man who hates Abandoned Projects”, was well known. He built the Senate House, revamped the dwindling UNILAG computer centre, guest houses, and established the on-campus secondary school for children of university staff, the International School which is considered to be amongst the top 20 schools in Nigeria.
Oyinkan Abayomi Drive
Iyaloye Oyinkansola “Oyinkan” Abayomi, nee Ajasa Lady Abayomi (6 March 1897 – 19 March 1990) was a Nigerian nationalist and feminist. She was the head of the Nigerian Girl Guides and founder of the Nigerian Women’s Party. While in England, Abayomi had joined the Girl Guides. When she returned to Nigeria, she connected with the local Lagos Nigerian Girl Guides Association, which was founded by an English woman. Abayomi joined the group and was the first Nigerian woman to serve as a supervisor. She also became active in the education of women and girls in Nigeria, which was not equal to that of men and boys. She joined the Lagos Women’s Organization. She did fundraising and promoting for Queen’s College through the West African Educated Girls’ Club, an organization she founded. It opened in 1927. She was a founding teacher at the school. She was the only Nigerian to work there. Around this time, she became one of the first women in Lagos to drive a car.
Etim Inyang Crescent
Etim Okon Inyang listen (25 December 1931 – 26 September 2016) was a Nigerian Policeman and former Inspector General of Police. He was appointed in 1983. Inyang joined the Nigeria Police Force as a Constable in October 1949, he became a Lance Corporal in 1957 and was made Corporal in 1958. He became an Inspector in 1958, Assistant Superintendent of Police, (1960 – 1963), Deputy Superintendent of Police (1963 – 1965) and Superintendent of Police in 1965. He was Chief Superintendent of Police (1967 – 1971), Assistant Commissioner of Police (1971 – 1974), Commissioner of Police (1975 – 1980). Between 1961 and 1971, he was an officer at the INTERPOL office of the Central Criminal Investigation Department. In 1974, he managed the establishment of a Traffic Warden Service in the police force. Inyang was Assistant Inspector General of Police (1980 – 1984) and Inspector General in 1984. He died at the age of 84 in Lagos, Nigeria.