Babatunde Odufuwa.

Lagos, subsequent to the re-modernization project achieved by the current administration of Governor Raji Babatunde Fashola, is gradually becoming a major tourist destination, being one of the largest cities in Africa and in the world.

* Babatunde Raji Fashola Lagos State Governor

2011 – present Dr Babatunde Osotimehin ( Nigeria )

* 1927 – Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer, educator, and activist ( d. 2003 )

A few months out of high school he " discovered the work of Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji ".

Babatunde " Tunde " Idiagbon ( 14 September 1942-24 March 1999 ) was a Nigerian army officer and a one-time member of the Nigerian military juntas of 1966 – 1979 and 1983-1998 Nigerian military junta which ruled that country.

Tunde Baiyewu ( born Babatunde Emanuel Baiyewu, 25 November 1968 ) is a British singer of Nigerian descent and is a member of the easy listening duo, Lighthouse Family.

* " Jingo ", alternate title for " Jin-go-lo-ba ", a song by Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji

Niyabinghi rhythms were largely a creation of Count Ossie, who incorporated influences from traditional Jamaican Kumina drumming ( especially the form of the drums themselves ) with songs and rhythms learned from the recordings of Nigerian musician Babatunde Olatunji.

Combining Jamaican traditions with newly acquired African ones, Count Ossie and others synthesized his country's African traditions and reinvigorated them with the influences of Nigerian master-drummer Babatunde Olatunji, as a comparison of Count Ossie's Tales of Mozambique and Olatunji's earlier Drums of Passion will reveal.

Odufuwa hails from Oke-Aye in Ijebu North East Local Government Area ( I. N. E. L. G ) of Ogun State.

* Ijebu North

* Ijebu North East

* Ijebu East

Ijebu Ode is a Local Government Area and city located in south-western Nigeria, close to the A121 highway.

They are mostly referred to as Egure " this way to "; some of them include Odo-Agamegi, Ogbo, Italupe ( a neighbourhood within Ijebu Ode ), Ososa, Imomo, Imawen, Odo Ogbun, Apa ( Mesan ), Okelamuren, Abapawa, Erunwon, Isonyin, Oke-Eri, Imagbon, Ijebu-Isiwo, Odo-lewu, Odo-Arawa, Idowa, Iworo, Ala and Atiba amongst others.

the current Ogbeni Oja of Ijebu land, Dr Sonny Kuku OFR, Late Chief Timothy Odutuyo Kuti ( Abusi Edumare as he was fondly called ) former school principal, industrialist, a businessman, philanthropist the founder of Abusi Edumare Academy Ijebu Igbo ( acknowledged to have groomed business, religions and political leaders ) Prince Micheal Oyedele an industrialist, chief Adegunle soetan ( Aro of Egbaland ), Iyalode jojolola soetan ( 2nd Iyalode of Egbaland ).

Although linguistically related to the Yoruba ethnic group, however, through centuries of intermingling modern day Itsekiris are of very mixed ethnic origins ( primarily of Yoruba ( Ijebu, Ilaje, Ondo and Owo ), Edo, Urhobo, Ijo, Anglo-Scottish and Portuguese descent ) and are today mainly Christian ( Protestant and Roman Catholic ) by religion.

The military defeat at Imagbon of Ijebu forces by the British colonial Army ensured a tentative European settlement in Lagos which was gradually expanded by protectorate treaties, treaties which proved decisive in the eventual annexation of the rest of Yorubaland and, eventually, of southern Nigeria and the Cameroons.

Further attempts by the Sokoto Caliphate to expand southwards were checked by the Yoruba who had rallied to resist under the military leadership of the City State of Ibadan which rose from the old Oyo Empire, and of the Ijebu city-states.

* May 19 – Battle of Yemoja River: British troops defeat Ijebu infantry in modern-day Nigeria, using a maxim gun.

The Yoruba Ijebu clan of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria, claim that she was actually a noblewoman of theirs known as Oloye Bilikisu Sungbo, which is similar to the name mentioned in the Qur ' an, Balqis.

Ikangba is the name of a housing estate in Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, Nigeria.

Ijebu ( also known as Jebu or Geebu ) was a Yoruba kingdom in pre-colonial Nigeria.

Obanta ( originally Ogborogan ) was the first king of the Ijebu kingdom in what is now Ogun State, Nigeria.

* Peter C. Lloyd, " Ijebu " African Kingships in Perspective

Ambassador ( retired ) Oluyemi Adeniji ( born July 22, 1934 in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State ) is a Nigerian career diplomat and politician who was the Special Representative of the General Secretary with the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone ( UNAMSIL ) from November 19, 1999 to July 16, 2003.

It was made popular by Alhaja Batile Alake from Ijebu, who took the genre into the mainstream Nigerian music by playing it at concerts and parties ; also, she was the first waka singer to record an album.

Some of the popular towns of the Ijesa are Ibokun, Erin Ijesa, Ipetu Jesa, Ijebu Jesa, Esa-Oke, Ipole, Ifewara, Ijeda, Iloko, Iwara, Iperindo, Erinmo, Iwaraja, Idominasi, Ilase, Igangan, Imo, Eti-oni, Iboku, Erin-Ijesa and many others.

Within about an hour with the help of reports from seismic stations in Alaska, Arizona and California, the quake's epicenter was placed at 51 degrees North latitude and 158 degrees East longitude.

Apollo and Artemis in the North East corner

Afroasiatic languages are spoken predominantly in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel.

The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic ( including all its colloquial varieties ), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa.

Afroasiatic languages are today primarily spoken in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel.

Buildings made of sun-dried earth are common in West Asia, North Africa, West Africa, South America, southwestern North America, Spain ( usually in the Mudéjar style ), Eastern Europe and East Anglia, particularly Norfolk, known as ' clay lump.

These include: Albania, Afghanistan Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Holy See ( Vatican City ), Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Order of Malta, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

In 2011, the leader of the Ainu community in Kamchatka, Alexei Vladimirovich Nakamura requested that Vladimir Ilyukhin ( Governor of Kamchatka ) and Boris Nevzorov ( Chairman of state Duma ) include the Ainu in the central list of the Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East.

MtDNA Haplogroup D is found frequently throughout East Asia and Central Asia, and is also common in some populations of North Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Americas ; in addition, it has been found with low frequency in some populations of Europe and Southwest Asia.

Alfred had been on his way to relieve his son at Thorney when he heard that the Northumbrian and East Anglian Danes were besieging Exeter and an unnamed stronghold on the North Devon shore.

The Alaska site provides more protection against North Korean missiles or launches from Russia or China, but is likely less effective against missiles launched from the Middle East.

* 1990 – More than 127 Muslims are killed in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitary troops.

The constituency today includes the wards of Aberavon, Baglan, Briton Ferry East, Briton Ferry West, Bryn and Cwmavon, Coedffranc Central, Coedffranc North, Coedffranc West, Cymmer, Glyncorrwg, Gwynfi, Margam, Port Talbot, Sandfields East, Sandfields West and Tai-bach.

It was nominated for " Best Coastal Resort " in Scotland along with St Andrews in Fife, North Berwick in East Lothian, and Rothesay in Argyll and Bute.

Category: Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East

In this image, North ( the direction towards the North Celestial Pole ) is up and East is left, and the white line is the rotational axis of Altair.

The salinity steadily decreases towards North and East.

Baseball is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia.

For purposes of scoring and reference, each player is identified by one of the points of the compass and thus North and South play against East and West.

They have also been identified with an East Germanic group, whose remains have mostly been found in the North of modern day Bavaria.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

Artifacts such as bowls, rock carvings and sacred statues with breasts have been recorded from 15, 000 BC up to late antiquity all across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.