Takete-Ide Amuro

Pacesetters & Community Firsts

People and milestones recorded by the community manuscript as notable firsts in Takete-Ide.

Takete-Ide’s history is being preserved through documentary evidence, community records and oral testimony. Some accounts on this page continue to be researched and verified with elders, family representatives and the traditional institution — see the status badge beside each section. If you can help confirm, correct or expand this record, please contribute what you know.

A Chapter of Firsts

Documentary Evidence

Chapter Ten of the supplied manuscript brings together a community record of people and institutions described as the first in their field or role. The list below keeps the manuscript’s framing rather than treating each entry as independently verified biography.

Source note: From the Hilltops to the Valley: The History, Heritage and People of Takete Ide. Summarised from the supplied community historical manuscript. For this website update, the manuscript is treated as the primary community source for Takete-Ide history and heritage, except for Baptist Church-specific material, which continues to use separate Baptist church and archival sources. Where the manuscript itself contains incomplete dates, unclear wording or internal differences, the website preserves that uncertainty rather than inventing a correction.

1

First church

Sudan Interior Mission (S.I.M), 1919; later ECWA

2

First pastor

Late Pa. Agbale

3

First choir

Established 29 December 1930

4

First choirmaster

Late Pa. Ezra Afolabi

5

First bricklayer

Pa Peter Olowodara

6

First literate person

Pa Peter Olowodara

7

First school

S.I.M School, Takete-Ide, established 1943

8

First dispenser / community health worker

Pa S. B. Makanjuola

9

First person recorded as travelling abroad

Late Pa. Eseyin Ernest Lazarus, Birmingham, United Kingdom, circa 1964

10

First vehicle owner

Late Pa. Paul Olayemi, about 1965

11

First church wedding

Late Pa. and Mrs Bolarin Olukomogbon, 1971

12

First graduate

Titus Ayeni, Agricultural Science, Ahmadu Bello University, 1966

13

First female graduate

Mrs Ebun Obaro, English Education, University of Ilorin, 1982

14

First PhD

Dr David Atte, Geography, 1979

15

First professor

Olu Atte, 1995

16

First nurse

Mrs Omoboni Mokunolu

17

First banker

Pa Bolarin Olukomogbon

18

First journalist

Mr Dickson Adeyanju

19

First chartered accountant

Mr Henry Abimbola

20

First commissioner

Dr David Atte, Kwara State, 1983

21

First House of Assembly member

Chief Eric Olorunjuwon Fiki

22

First Local Government Vice-Chairman

Chief Emmanuel Elesho

23

Pioneer principal of GDSS Takete-Ide

Chief Kayode Fanwo

Additional firsts preserved in the manuscript

A second pass through the manuscript identified additional entries that were not included in the first website update. Where the source itself is incomplete or unclear, that uncertainty is shown rather than filled in.

24

First farmer recorded to own a car

Pa Osho — the year is incomplete in the manuscript

25

First house with a zinc roof

Baba John Ayeni’s house, Odo-Takete

26

First upstairs building

Attributed to James Orunmbe in the manuscript; the accompanying wording is unclear and should remain under transcription review

27

First CBN staff member

Late Sunday Fadayin

28

First teacher

Pa T. K. Eseyin

29

First headmaster

Pa Enoch Bodunde Eseyin

30

First college principal

Late Pa Sunday Funsho Aguda

31

First Director-General in the civil service

Chief William Omoniwa

32

First aide-de-camp to a state chief executive

Capt. Gbenga Olayemi, 1998–99

Verification note: The website is publishing these entries as a structured transcription of the supplied community history. Documentary records, family archives, school records and corrections from the community can be used to strengthen individual entries over time.