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A BRIEF HISTORY OF M.K.O ABIOLA.

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A Brief History Of M.K.O Abiola. Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola (August 24, 1937 – July 7, 1998), often referred to as M. K. O. Abiola, was a popular Nigerian Yoruba businessman, publisher, politician and aristocrat of the Egba clan born in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Moshood was his father’s twenty-third child but the first of his father’s children to survive infancy. MKO showed entrepreneurial talents at a very young age, at the tender age of nine he started his first business selling firewood. He would wake up at dawn to go to the forest and gather firewood, which he would then cart back to town and sell before going to school, in order to support his old father and his siblings He later established a band at age fifteen where he performed at different functions in return for food. He in the end came to be acclaimed enough to begin requesting money for his exhibitions and utilized the cash to uphold his family and his optional instruction at the Baptist Boys High School Abeokuta, where

Killi-we Nwachukwu: The story of an Igbo Superman

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Killi-we Nwachukwu: The story of an Igbo Superman: Uzoma Nwaozuzu Nwachukwu, was an Igbo Superman. He hailed from Mbaitolu in Imo state. He was born in 1931 and died October 31, 1992. He was nicknamed "Killi-we" Nwachukwu because of his enormous natural strength. Killi-we Nwachukwu was for more than three decades celebrated as a homegrown Nigerian superman. Some of his legendary feats of strength included lifting of buses, having cement blocks crushed on his head, allowing cars to drive over his body, using teeth to carry bags of cement, using bare hands to hammer nails, breaking coconuts on his head, six people standing on his body at the same time, etc. How He Got His Nickname "Killi-we". Killi-we is a nickname he got after a fight with a stubborn man called "Tick man", who refused to pay him his money for a truck load of goods he conveyed from the market to the man's house. He used to push a wooden two wheel truck with which