Takete-Ide Amuro

Pacesetters & Community Firsts

Notable firsts and milestones in Takete-Ide across faith, education, professions, and civic leadership.

Community Pacesetters

Takete-Ide’s historical records celebrate the individuals and institutions whose achievements marked significant firsts across religious, academic, professional, and civic leadership.

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 nurses and midwives

The late Mrs Sarah Moritiwon, the late Mrs Marion Ayeni and Mrs Margret Omoboni Mokunolu, the first three of Takete-Ide origin

17

First woman to build a storey building

Mrs Omoboni Mokunolu, around 1984

18

First banker

Pa Bolarin Olukomogbon

19

First journalist

Mr Dickson Adeyanju

20

First chartered accountant

Mr Henry Abimbola

21

First Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN)

Barrister Samuel Agunbiade

22

First lawyer

Barrister Dare Onietan

23

First Army Captain

Late Capt. Noah Eseyin

24

First Army Major

Late Maj. Monday Adegoke

25

First Lieutenant Colonel

Lt. Col. John Kehinde Olukomogbon (serving)

26

First Legislative Council Speaker, then Yagba LGA

Mr Abraham Oloruntoba, 1990

27

First commissioner

Dr David Atte, Kwara State, 1983

28

First House of Assembly member

Chief Eric Olorunjuwon Fiki, 1999

29

First Local Government Vice-Chairman

Chief Emmanuel Elesho, 2013

30

First Chief Press Secretary to a Governor

Mr Richard Olaniran Elesho, June 2005

31

Pioneer principal of GDSS Takete-Ide

Chief John Kayode Fanwo (Chief Obaholo), when it was Oyi L.G. Secondary School

32

First Senior Prefect (Head Boy) of GDSS

Mr Bamidele Eseyin, later the first Takete-Ide indigene to be Secretary of MopAmuro LG

33

First Head Girl of GDSS

Racheal Aina Ayeni, now Rev. Mrs Abugan Rachael

34

First beauty pageant winner

Late Eunice Omolade Ajayi (née Aiyedogbon), Miss Takete-Ide around 1985

35

First indigenous clergyman

Pastor Abiodun Oloja (The Apostolic Church)

36

First member of the Chartered Institute of Directors, Nigeria

Pastor Sunday Omoniwa, admitted July 2026

37

First to play professional football abroad

Leke James, striker

38

First television set in the community

Chief William Omoniwa, a 14-inch black-and-white Tatung run on a Honda generator, late 1970s

39

First telecommunications base station

Globacom, July 2021

40

First to bring photo printing technology

Mr Dayo Samson (Maiduguri)

Further Historical Milestones

Additional notable firsts preserved in the community historical records across public life and civic enterprise.

41

First farmer to own a vehicle

Pa Osho

42

First house with a zinc roof

Baba John Ayeni’s residence, Odo-Takete

43

First multi-storey building

Pa James Orunmbe

44

First CBN staff member

Late Sunday Fadayin

45

First teacher

Pa T. K. Eseyin

46

First headmaster

Pa Enoch Bodunde Eseyin

47

First college principal

Late Pa Sunday Funsho Aguda

48

First Director-General in the civil service

Chief William Omoniwa

49

First aide-de-camp to a state chief executive

Capt. Gbenga Olayemi, 1998–99