edited by Ololade Bamidele2024-02-292024-02-2920209789789518869https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/1338Ogun state! This gateway like no other, extensively documented in this effort, has remained a peculiar bridge between the past and the future; a profoundly inspiring (yet intensively colorful) antiquity along side an abiding modernity; which layers of all that was striking about the past coming in rapport with the best possibilities that the future holds out. Offering the unique chronicle as a testament to history and identity, has been a feat that his Excellency, Governor Dapo Abiodun (MFR) breathed life into. For this, he is owned no less than a huge debt of gratitude, both for belief in the team that put this book together, and his remarkable material investment. Through past decades, the evolution of Ogun state has been distinct and progressive, witnessing successive administrations marshal their individuals and often overlapping competences towards the continuum of endeavours that has been laid out in this historicizing project. Its pathway runs through once declining urban spread, across its different nodes. Which has subsequently been regenerated into a series of modern, flourishing, and well-connected metropolitan centres. For their peculiar, collective and intersecting investment through the years – which have presently been brought into greater fruition – we express our appreciation to all the pasts administration in Ogun states.Ogun state: Senatorial districts; History; Archives; Exteriors/interiors; Art and music; Spirituality; Traditional worship; Education; Building our future together; Economy; Festivals.enBook