Friday 10 June 2016

This Is Not Dubai; Checkout The Glamorous Tinubu Square On Lagos Island. Photo



This is not Dubai or London, this is Lagos. Pictured is the popular Tinubu Square on Lagos Island -which emits glamor especially at night. Tinubu Square on Lagos Island, a place previously known as Independence Square, is named after the late Oloye (Madam Efunroye Tinubu).

 Ita Tinubu (Tinubu's precinct or Tinubu Square) had been known by that name long before the country's independence, but it was renamed Independence Square by the leaders of the First Republic.

Note;  Madam Tinubu was a slave trader and adversary of the British Colonial Government of what is now Nigeria that was banished by it from Lagos to her native Abeokuta. She was an active participant in the Atlantic Slave Trade who resisted its suppression.

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