Owa Ataiyero was the
paramount ruler
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of the
Ijesha
The Ijesha/Ilesha (written as Ìjẹ̀ṣà in Yoruba orthography) are one of the major sub-ethnicity of the Yorubas of West Africa. Ilesha is the largest town and historic cultural capital of the Ijesha people, and is home to a large kingdom o ...
, a sub-ethnicity of the
Yoruba, from 1901 to his death in 1920.
During his reign the first
Christian
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church was built and opened in 1903, the first telephone service was started in 1906, and the first motor vehicles drove the roads of
Ilesa
Ilesa () is a historic city located in Osun State, southwest Nigeria; it is also the name of the capital of a historic state-kingdom(also known as Ijesha) centred around that town as the capital . The state is ruled by a monarch bearing the ti ...
in 1907.
Nigerian royalty
Year of birth missing
1920 deaths
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