1938
The Apostolic Church takes root in Takete-Ide
The manuscript records Rev. K. P. Titus as an important influence in the establishment of The Apostolic Church and later encouragement of some converts to settle closer to the Kabba–Ilorin road.
Further Migration
Takete-Tedo, Okegada
A later chapter in Takete-Ide migration history, beginning in the late 1940s and growing through kinship, road access and communal labour.
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 second settlement, one Takete-Ide community
Oral HistoryChapter Six records a further migration from the main Takete-Ide settlement to the more accessible Okegada area near the Kabba–Ilorin road. The account links the movement to the influence of Rev. K. P. Titus and the practical advantages of access to the federal road.
The account does not treat Takete-Tedo as a separate people. Its central theme is continuity: families moved for practical reasons while maintaining their identity, farms, kinship and ties with the main Takete-Ide settlement.
Source note: From the Hilltops to the Valley: The History, Heritage and People of Takete Ide, Chapter Six. Names and sequence follow the recollection of Dr Daniel Duro Maiye as reproduced in the manuscript. Spellings are retained as closely as possible to the source. 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.
Migration milestones
1949
Overseer Cornelius Maiye moves to Takete-Tedo
The manuscript identifies Overseer Cornelius Maiye as the first Takete-Ide indigene to move to the Takete-Tedo section of Okegada in 1949.
Following years
A settlement grows through communal labour
Additional Takete-Ide families followed. The account remembers houses being built with the help of local builders and communal labour, including children carrying sand and water as they grew old enough to assist.
Continuing identity
One community across two settlements
The manuscript repeatedly presents Takete-Tedo, Okegada as part and parcel of the wider Takete-Ide community despite the physical distance between the settlements.
Earliest recorded neighbours at Okegada
- Overseer Cornelius Maiye — Takete-Tedo
- Pa Malachy Iselewo — Aiyede-Tedo
- Chief Elewa Agunbiade — Okagi-Tedo axis
Building through communal labour
The manuscript remembers Overseer Cornelius Maiye as a local builder who supervised several early houses with help from builders in neighbouring communities. Labour was communal: people carried sand and water and worked together to establish homes for incoming families.
Takete-Ide settlers recorded in the manuscript
The following names are reproduced as a structured community record. They follow the spelling in the manuscript as closely as possible and remain open to family corrections and additions.
Moses Atteh
Pa Malaki Anjorin
Pa Ayorinde
Pa Adangbawo
Pa Lot Babaode
Pa Mathew Idowu (Elero)
Pa Abraham
Pa T. K. Eseyin
Pa Chief Olorunleke
John Oloja
Jonah Oloja
Pa Job Olarewaju
Pa Obedi Medaiyese
Pa Ezra Afolabi
Pa Enoch B. Eseyin
Pa Joel Omole
Pa Adehoro Eseyin
Pa Emmanuel Eseyin (Olifere)
Pa Elisha Atteh
Pa Owoniyi
Pa Joseph Obafemi