UNIQUE FRIENDS SCHOOLSDATE - 19 -30th ,Jan 2026.
WEEK 2 - 3
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL - Charts of heroes in Nigeria.
TOPIC -EARLY HEROES IN LAGOS STATE.
SUB TOPIC - Brief backgrounds of heroes in Nigeria, their achievements .
OBJECTIVES - At the end of the lesson ,the learners must be able to :
Mention some of their achievements.
CONTENT
1. HERBERT MACAULAY
He was born in 1864. He was the grandson of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther. He is considered the Founding father of Nigerian nationalism.
HIS ACHIEVEMENTS INCLUDE:
1.He founded the Lagos Daily News to promote the nationalist movement.
2. He was the first Nigerian to establish a political party in 1922 , the Nigerian National Democratic Party(NNDP).
3. He became the first national president of the National Council of Nigerian and the Cameroons (NCNC) party he co-founded in 1944 with Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe.
2. CHEIF CANDIDO ROCHA
Da Rocha, an ethnic Ijesha, was born to the family of Joao Esan Da Rocha, a former Brazilian slave;his father was 10 years old when he was captured as a slave in about 1840 and Candido was born in the Bahia region of Brazil.
Candido attended CMS Grammar School, Lagos where he was peers with Isaac Oluwole and Herbert Macaulay. He lived in Water House on Kakawa Street, Lagos, a house built by his father. The home was commemorated in literature by a novel, The Water House, written by Antonio Olinto. The house had a borehole and the first water fountain in Lagos Island; water was sold from his house to consumers. Some of his business interests included a restaurant called The Restaurant Da Rocha and Sierra Leone Deep Sea Fishing Industries Ltd. He collaborated with Lagos businessmen J. H. Doherty and Sedu Williams on a money lending business established under the name of the Lagos Native Bank. He was a founding member of the Lagos auxiliary to the Anti Slavery and Aborigines Right Society.Da Rocha died in 1959[6] and is buried at Ikoyi Cemetery.
3. SAPARA WILLIAMS
3. Cheif Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams CMG (14 July 1855 – 15 March 1915) was the first indigenous Nigerian lawyer, called to the English bar on 17 November 1879. In addition to his legal practice, he came to play an influential role in the politics of Nigeria during the colonial era.He held the chieftaincy title of the Lodifi of Ilesha.
4. Sir MOBOLAJI BANK ANTHONY
4. Sir Mobolaji Bank Anthony, KBE (11 June 1907 - 26 May 1991) was a Yoruba Nigerian businessman and philanthropist.
1. He was a council President of the Lagos Stock Exchange and was a minority investor in Aero-Contractors before indigenous shares were acquired by the Ibru Organization.[3]
2. At one time, he held the distributional rights to cars manufactured by Rootes Group.
3.He was a board member of various companies and was a fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management.
5. Joseph Kosoniola Randle MVO MBE (28 July 1909 – December 1956) was a Nigerian businessman and socialite from Lagos. He was Chef de Mission of the Nigerian Olympic team to Melbourne and was connected to various public activities in Lagos. Randle was a social crusader and philanthropist who started the Nigerian arm of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society, a member of the Lagos Town Council (though his politics discouraged extreme nationalism) and was a sportsman who was a trustee of a proposed National Stadium.
Evaluation: who establish the daily news paper ?
ASSIGNMENT:
1.Who was given the chieftaincy title of lodifi of Ilesa?
2. Who was the first indigenous lawyer in Lagos State ?
When did Da Rocha died?.
CONCLUSION: The teacher summaries the lesson .