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Tunji Ige
Tunji is a Yoruba male given name. It is loosely interpreted as re-awake. Notable people includes *Tunji Oyelana Nigerian musician *Tunji Awojobi Nigerian professional basketball player *Tunji Olurin Former military Governor of Oyo State *Tunji Kasim Scottish actor * Tunji Banjo Nigerian-Irish professional footballer * Tunji Sowande Nigeria-born United Kingdom lawyer and musician *Tunji Otegbeye Nigerian politician *Sarafa Tunji Ishola Nigeria's former Minister of Mines and Steel Development See also *Olatunji Olatunji is both a surname and a given name of Yoruba origin meaning "Wealth awakes again". Notable people with the name include: *Babatunde Olatunji (1927–2003), Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist * Olatunji Akin Euba (1935-2020) Nigeri ... {{given name, type=both Yoruba given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoruba Names
A Yorùbá name is a name that is part of a naming tradition that is primarily used by the Yoruba people and Yoruba language-speaking individuals in Benin, Togo, and Nigeria. Naming ceremonies Originally, male Yorùbá children were named on the ninth day after their birth, while the female child was named on the seventh day. However, nowadays, both genders are named on the seventh day. The names of the children are traditionally found by divination performed by a group of Babalawo - traditional Ifá priests, but in recent times names can also come from those of ranking members of the family, including the father, mother, grandparents, or next of kin. Both the mother and father and other elderly relatives can give their own favorite names to the child or children. That is why the Yorùbás usually have a long list of names. Baby names often come from the grandparents and great grandparents of the child to be named. The name traditionally divined by the Babaláwo indicates the Orisha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunji Oyelana
Tunji Oyelana (born 4 October 1939) is a multi-award-winning Nigerian musician, actor, folk singer, composer and once a lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Tunji Oyelana is of the Yoruba ethnic group and is a native of Nigeria. Most of Tunji Oyelana's songs are in Yoruba. In the early 1980s, he teamed up with Nigeria's first and only winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka, to record a musical album that satirized the corruption of the Nigerian political elite. He was the musician for Stéphane Breton's 1994 film ''Un dieu au bord de la route''. Oyelana is credited with having sold the most albums by a Nigerian High Life musicians. In 2012 he released '' A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79'', an album from Soundway Records. Apart from Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade, Oyelana is regarded as one of the most played Yoruba musicians. He and Soyinka composed ''I Love My Country'' and, in 1996, were both charged with treason and forced into exile by Sani Abach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunji Awojobi
Tunji Femi Awojobi (born July 30, 1973) is a retired Nigerian professional basketball player. A former boxer, Awojobi graduated from Boston University in 1997. Following graduation, he played in several European countries, most notably in Israel. Awojobi was also a member of the Nigerian national team, and participated in the 1998 and 2006 FIBA World Championship. His best achievement in European basketball was winning the ULEB Cup as the starting center for Hapoel Jerusalem from Israel. In the finals, Jerusalem beat Real Madrid 83:72. College career Awojobi played college basketball at Boston University (BU) for four years (1993–1997). He is the first player in New England college basketball history to record 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. Awojobi concluded his outstanding career as just one of five Division I players to register career totals of 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, and 300 blocked shots. He joined a select group composed of Alonzo Mourning ( Georgetown), Perv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunji Olurin
Adetunji Idowu Ishola Olurin mni ( yo, Adétúnjí Ìdòwú Ìṣọ̀lá Olúrìn; 3 December 1944 – 20 August 2021) was a Nigerian one-star general in the national army, who served as the military Governor of Oyo State and Field Commander of ECOMOG Peacekeeping Force in Liberia from 1992 to 1993 during the First Liberian Civil War. Olurin retired from service in 1993, and was a member of People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria. He was administrator of Ekiti State from 8 October 2006 until 27 April 2007. Birth and education Tunji Olurin was born at Ilaro to the Chief M. A. O. Olurin, the Agoro of Ilaro, and Madam Abigail Fola Olurin. He was educated at Egbado College (now Yewa College), and attended the Technical College, Ibadan (now Ibadan Polytechnic) in 1966. He became a trainee at the Times Press in Apapa, Lagos. In 1967, he entered the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, where he obtained his NDA Certificate of Education. He attended many professional courses d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oyo State
Oyo State is an inland state in southwestern Nigeria. Its capital is Ibadan, the third most populous city in the country and formerly the second most populous city in Africa. Oyo State is bordered to the north by Kwara State, to the east by Osun State, and to the southwest by Ogun State and the Republic of Benin. With a projected population of 7,840,864 in 2016, Oyo State is the fifth most populous in the Nigeria. The vast majority of Oyo State residents are Yoruba, and the Yoruba language remains dominant. Nicknamed the "Pace Setter State", present-day Oyo State sits on territory formerly ruled by various kingdoms and empires. The Oyo Empire was a powerful Yoruba empire that ruled in much of the area from c. 1300 to 1896. Built in the 1830s, modern city of Oyo is considered a remnant of the imperial era, being referred to as "New Ọyọ" (''Ọ̀yọ́ Àtìbà'') to distinguish itself from the former capital to the north, ' Old Oyo' (''Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé''). The Alaafin of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunji Kasim
Adetunji "Tunji" Kasim is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his role as Joe Bailey in ''Nearly Famous'' (on E4), Hugo Scott, an art teacher in ''Shetland'', and Ned Nickerson in The CW's ''Nancy Drew''. In 2009, he was nominated for an Ian Charleson Awards drama award for '' Julius Caesar'' (with the RSC). Early life and education He was born in Aberdeen, but moved to Nigeria soon after birth. He lived there until he was 12, and then the family moved back to Aberdeen and spent his teenage years in Kincorth. His mother is Scottish, a primary school teacher raised on a farm in Auchenblae and his father is Nigerian, a research fellow and lecturer at Aberdeen University, having previously studied there for his PhD in economics. His first thoughts of a career were of being a boxer or a dishwasher. He then studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, which is now called Royal Conservatoire of Scotland The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland ( gd, Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunji Banjo
Tunji Babajide Banjo (born 19 February 1960) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Leyton Orient, AEL Limassol and the Nigeria national football team. Biography Tunji Babajide Banjo was born on 19 February 1960 in Kensington, London, and played schoolboy football for Brent, Middlesex and London Schools before joining Leyton Orient as an apprentice in 1977. After two substitute appearances, including an appearance in the 1978 FA Cup semifinal against Arsenal, Banjo made his full debut in the first team in a 3-0 win against Burnley on 18 April 1978 and went on to make 27 league appearances for Orient. He was released in May 1982 and joined Cypriot club AEL Limassol where he suffered a bad ankle injury. He returned to Orient for the 1987–88 season as a non-contract player but made no further appearances for the club. Banjo was eligible for the Nigeria national football team through his father and made his international debut against Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunji Sowande
Tunji Sowande was a Nigeria-born United Kingdom lawyer and musician. Early life Tunji Sowande was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1912 to a well-off and musical family. His brother was Fela Sowande. His father was the Anglican priest, Emmanuel Sowande, a pioneer of church music in Lagos and a contemporary of the classical composer and organist Ekundayo Phillips. Tunji Sowande had his early education at the CMS Anglican Grammar School in Lagos and the Yaba Higher College, where he obtained a diploma in pharmacy in about 1940. He worked with the public health department in Lagos as a dispensing pharmacist for a number of years. His contemporary was the late Adeyinka Oyekan, who was to become the Oba (king) of Lagos. He is also said to have set up a private Pharmacy business alongside the said Oyekan Tunji was an excellent Baritone singer, organist, and later a Jazz Drummer and Saxophonist. Largely plying his musical skills in the conservative surroundings of the Anglican Cathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunji Otegbeye
Jeremiah Olatunji Otegbeye (14 July 1925 – 9 October 2009) was a Nigerian politician, trade unionist and medical doctor.EgbaYewa Descendants Association Washington DC U.S.A. ''"Veteran activist, Otegbeye dies at 84" ''Vanguard'', 10 October 2009. Otegbeye hailed from the Yewa community."Otegbeye: Daniel, Oshiomhole, Oni, others pay tribute" ''Vanguard'', 10 October 2009. Life Otegbeye was born in |
Sarafa Tunji Ishola
Ambassador Sarafadeen Tunji Isola (born 25 November 1960) was appointed as the Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom by President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2021. Early life and education Isola, fondly called "STI" was born in Abeokuta, Ogun State on November 25th, 1960 to the family of Egba High Chieftain, Alhaji Ibrahim Isola Tairu and Alhaja Amudalat Ajiun Isola (nee Ejalonibu). He was a pupil at the Oke-Ona United Primary School, Ilugun, Abeokuta where he recorded academic excellence and was a member of the Drama Society. His secondary education was conducted at Nawair-ud-Deen Grammar School, Obantoko, Abeokuta. Upon completion of his secondary school education, young Isola began work as a sales clerk at Wellcome Nigeria Limited (a pharmaceutical company). In his quest to develop himself further, Isola decided to travel to the United Kingdom for studies in 1978. He commenced training programmes at the Chartered Institute of Marketing, United Kingdom where he obtai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olatunji
Olatunji is both a surname and a given name of Yoruba origin meaning "Wealth awakes again". Notable people with the name include: *Babatunde Olatunji (1927–2003), Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist * Olatunji Akin Euba (1935-2020) Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist *Olajide "JJ" Olatunji (born 1993), known as "KSI," English rapper and Internet personality * Eddie Olatunji Oshodi (born 1992), English footballer * Dayo Olatunji (born 1992), English singer * Ayokunle Olatunji Fatinikun (born 1991), Nigerian American player of American football *Olatunji Yearwood Olatunji Yearwood (born September 3, 1985), better known by his mononym Olatunji, is a Trinidadian soca artist. Career Yearwood was born in Trinidad to Edward Yearwood, a well-known composer and mother Mairoon Ali, a Trinidadian actress, rad ... (born 1985), Trinidadian Soca singer and songwriter See also * Olatunji Concert, recording of saxophonist John Coltrane Given names of Nigerian origin Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
