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Politician. Lawyer. Businessman. Oloye Sir Adeyemo Alakija, Listen ⓘ KBE (25 May 1884 – 10 May 1952) was a Nigerian lawyer, politician and businessman. He served as a member of the Nigerian legislative council for nine years starting in 1933. In 1942, he became a member of the governor's Executive Council.
Died: Saturday, 10 May 1952. Adeyemo Alakija was a Nigerian businessman, lawyer, politician and Freemason who forever changed the political course of his homeland. Freemasonry, though a speculative science in nature, teaches its initiates to participate in the world around them.
Oloye Sir Adeyemo Alakija, Listen ⓘ KBE (25 May 1884 – 10 May 1952) was a Nigerian lawyer, politician and businessman. He served as a member of the Nigerian legislative council for nine years starting in 1933. In 1942, he became a member of the governor's Executive Council.
Adeyemo Alakija was born Placido Assumpcao in 1884. He changed his name to the original family name, Alakija in the year he was called to Bar in the London Inner Temple, 1913. This was possible because his family knew of their origin in Abeokuta. His father was one of the Yoruba Brazilian slaves who returned
Sir Adeyemo Alakija, KBE was appointed the fifth District Grand Master for Nigeria in 1950 following the death of Dr. G. Munn Gray. He was installed by Sir Charles William Tachie-Menson, who was then the District Grand Master for Gold Coast (now Ghana).
SIR ADEYEMO ALAKIJA K.B.E., P.A.G. REG (1950-1952) Following the death of Dr. G. Munn Gray, the fifth District Grand Master to be appointed was Sir Adeyemo Alakija K.B.E., P.A.G. Reg. He was installed by the late Sir Charles Tachie Menson, O.B.E. District Grand Master, Gold Coast.
Adeyemo Alakija was a Nigerian lawyer, politician and businessman. Alakija was born on May 25th, 1884 as Placido Adeyemo Assumpçao in Lagos, Nigeria. He was descended from freed Brazilian slaves who had returned to Nigeria, which was common at the time.
