Oshodi-Isolo
Oshodi-Isolo is a Local Government Area within Lagos State. It was formed by the second republic Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande known as'Baba Kekere' and the first Executive Chairman of the Local Government was late Sir Isaac Ademolu Banjoko; the LGA is part of the Ikeja Division of Nigeria. At the 2006 Census it had a population of 621,509 people, an area of 45 square kilometers. Hon. Idris Bolaji Muse Ariyoh, has been re-elected for a second term into office July 25, 2017, as the Executive Chairman, it is represented in the Lagos state House of Assembly by Shokunle Hakeem for Oshodi/Isolo I and Emeka Odimogu Oshodi for Isolo II. In the House of Representatives, Mutiu Alao Shadimu and Tony Chinedu Nwulu both of the PDP represent the Oshodi-Isolo I and Oshodi-Isolo II respectively. Oshodi-Isolo Local Government
Silverbird Galleria
Silverbird Galleria is a shopping mall and entertainment centre in Victoria Island, Lagos. Silverbird Galleria was established in 2004 by Silverbird Group,a media and real estate company founded by Ben Murray-Bruce in the 1980s; the movie theatre, Silverbird Cinemas which revolutionalized cinema in Nigeria pioneered the first five-screens Cineplex in sub-Saharan Africa. Silverbird Cinemas possesses the largest cinema chain in West Africa with several locations in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Accra, Ghana. Silverbird Galleria has a shirts retailer, café and mobile network offices for feasible communication and internet access, all located on the ground floor. Electronic gadgets retailers and the Rhythm 93.7 FM broadcasting studio are on the first floor. The second floor has arcades and food services; the Silverbird Cinema is on the topmost floor. Additional services include a pharmacy and beauty shop. There is a Silverbird galleria located at Ikeja CityMall, Lagos, it is at the top of the escalators on the right.
The Galleria has sister locations in other parts of Nigeria and internationally: The 12-screen/Silverbird Entertainment Centre, arguably West Africa’s largest Cinema complex. Silverbird Group Silverbird Cinemas
Cocoa House
Cocoa House, completed in 1965 at a height of 105 metres, was once the tallest building in tropical Africa. It is located in the city of Ibadan in Oyo State, it was built from proceeds from commodities of the Western State of Nigeria. Cocoa House, the 26-storey Cocoa House, Ibadan, is the property of Odu'a Investment Company Limited, Ibadan known as "Ile Awon Agbe"-translates as the "House of Farmers" was commissioned for use in August 1965; this building is owned by a subsidiary of O'dua group of companies. The building was gutted by fire on January 9, 1985 and rehabilitated for use in August 1992
Mushin, Lagos
Mushin is a Local Government Area in Lagos. It is located 10 km north of the city core, adjacent to the main road to Ikeja, is a congested residential area with inadequate sanitation and low-quality housing, it had 633,009 inhabitants at the 2006 Census. After the 1960 independence from Great Britain, there was large migrations to the suburban areas; this led to intensive overcrowding. As a result, poor sanitation and inadequate housing lead to poor living conditions. However, since the rise of industrialization in Nigeria, Mushin has become one of the largest beneficiaries of the industrial expansion, their local commercial enterprises include spinning and weaving of cotton, shoe manufacturing and motorized-cycle assembly, along with the production of powdered milk. Once a staple source of revenue in Nigeria, agriculture is a large central market; the town is home to a hospital as well educational facilities reaching the secondary school level. Mushin lies at the intersection of roads from Lagos and Ikeja.
Most of its inhabitants are from the Yoruba tribe and as a result Yoruba is the most common language spoken. North - Oshodi/Apapa expressway from Oshodi to flyover leading to international airport to Oshodi exit into Agege motor road South - Boundary with Surulere Local Government at the other side of Bishop Street to include Akobi crescent, LUTH, Idi-Araba communities East - Agege motor road from Oshodi to Bishop street West - Oshodi/Apapa expressway to Itire junction to include Itire-Ijesha communities in former Mushin Local Government
Trade
Trade involves the transfer of goods or services from one person or entity to another in exchange for money. A system or network that allows trade is called a market. An early form of trade, saw the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services. Barter involves trading things without the use of money. One bartering party started to involve precious metals, which gained symbolic as well as practical importance. Modern traders negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money; as a result, buying can be separated from earning. The invention of money simplified and promoted trade. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade involving more than two traders is called multilateral trade. Trade exists due to specialization and the division of labor, a predominant form of economic activity in which individuals and groups concentrate on a small aspect of production, but use their output in trades for other products and needs. Trade exists between regions because different regions may have a comparative advantage in the production of some trade-able commodity—including production of natural resources scarce or limited elsewhere, or because different regions' sizes may encourage mass production.
In such circumstances, trade at market prices between locations can benefit both locations. Retail trade consists of the sale of goods or merchandise from a fixed location, online or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption or use by the purchaser. Wholesale trade is defined as traffic in goods that are sold as merchandise to retailers, or to industrial, institutional, or other professional business users, or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services. Commerce is derived from the Latin commercium, from cum "together" and merx, "merchandise."Trade from Middle English trade, introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade, from Old Saxon trada, from Proto-Germanic *tradō, cognate with Old English tredan. Trade originated with human communication in prehistoric times. Trading was the main facility of prehistoric people, who bartered goods and services from each other before the innovation of modern-day currency. Peter Watson dates the history of long-distance commerce from circa 150,000 years ago.
In the Mediterranean region the earliest contact between cultures were of members of the species Homo sapiens principally using the Danube river, at a time beginning 35,000–30,000 BCE. Some trace the origins of commerce to the start of transaction in prehistoric times. Apart from traditional self-sufficiency, trading became a principal facility of prehistoric people, who bartered what they had for goods and services from each other. Trade is believed to have taken place throughout much of recorded human history. There is evidence of the exchange of flint during the stone age. Trade in obsidian is believed to have taken place in Guinea from 17,000 BCE; the earliest use of obsidian in the Near East dates to the Middle paleolithic. Trade in the stone age was investigated by Robert Carr Bosanquet in excavations of 1901. Trade is believed to have first begun in south west Asia. Archaeological evidence of obsidian use provides data on how this material was the preferred choice rather than chert from the late Mesolithic to Neolithic, requiring exchange as deposits of obsidian are rare in the Mediterranean region.
Obsidian is thought to have provided the material to make cutting utensils or tools, although since other more obtainable materials were available, use was found exclusive to the higher status of the tribe using "the rich man's flint". Obsidian was traded at distances of 900 kilometres within the Mediterranean region. Trade in the Mediterranean during the Neolithic of Europe was greatest in this material. Networks were in existence at around 12,000 BCE Anatolia was the source for trade with the Levant and Egypt according to Zarins study of 1990. Melos and Lipari sources produced among the most widespread trading in the Mediterranean region as known to archaeology; the Sari-i-Sang mine in the mountains of Afghanistan was the largest source for trade of lapis lazuli. The material was most traded during the Kassite period of Babylonia beginning 1595 BCE. Ebla was a prominent trading centre during the third millennia, with a network reaching into Anatolia and north Mesopotamia. Materials used for creating jewelry were traded with Egypt since 3000 BCE.
Long-range trade routes first appeared in the 3rd millennium BCE, when Sumerians in Mesopotamia traded with the Harappan civilization of the Indus Valley. The Phoenicians were noted sea traders, traveling across the Mediterranean Sea, as far north as Britain for sources of tin to manufacture bronze. For this purpose they established trade colonies. From the beginning of Greek civilization until the fall of the Roman empire in the 5th century, a financially lucrative trade brought valuable spice to Europe from the far east, including India and China. Roman commerce allowed its empire to endure; the latter Roman Republic and the Pax Romana of the Roman empire produced a stable and secure transportation network that enabled the shipment of trade goods without fear of significant piracy, as Rome had become the sole effective sea power in the Mediterranean with the conquest of Egypt and the near east. In ancient Greece Hermes was the god of trade and weights and measures, for Romans Mercurius god of merchants, whose festival was celebrated by traders on the 25th day o
Ikeja
Ikeja is the capital of Lagos State. Prior to the emergence of military rule in the early 1980s, Ikeja was a well planned and quiet residential and commercial town with shopping malls and government reservation areas; the Murtala Mohammed International Airport is located in Ikeja. Ikeja is home to the Femi Kuti's Africa Shrine and Lagbaja's Motherlan', it now boasts a shopping mall, Ikeja City Mall, the largest mall in the Mainland of Lagos State and has a cinema. Ikeja was settled by the Yoruba people, the locality was raided for slaves until the mid-19th century. Early in the 20th century it became an agricultural hinterland for Lagos; the opening of the Lagos-Ibadan railway in 1901 and the growth of Lagos as a port transformed Ikeja into a residential and industrial suburb of that city. In the mid-1960s an industrial estate was established, in 1976 Ikeja became the capital of the Lagos state; the Local Government administrative headquarters of Ikeja is located within the Ikeja Local Government premises.
The Chairman of Ikeja local government is Mr. Wale Odunlami. Under his tenure, Ikeja has witnessed significant infrastructural and educational development; the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has its headquarters in Ikeja on the grounds of Murtala Muhammad Airport. The Accident Investigation Bureau of the Nigerian government is headquartered in Ikeja; the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has its Lagos office in Aviation House on the grounds of the airport. Several airlines have their head offices situated in Ikeja. Arik Air's head office is in the Arik Air Aviation Centre on the grounds of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja. Aero Contractors has its head office on the grounds of Murtala Muhammed International Airport. Overland Airways has its head office in Ikeja. Other airlines with head offices in Ikeja include Dana Air. In addition, Virgin Atlantic has its Nigerian office in "The Place" in Ikeja. At one time Nigeria Airways had its head office in Airways House. Prior to its disestablishment Afrijet Airlines had its head office in the NAHCO Building on the grounds of the airport.
Bellview Airlines had its headquarters in the Bellview Plaza. Other disestablished airlines with head offices in Ikeja include Air Nigeria, on the 9th Floor of Etiebets Place. A slum in Ikeja was selected by C. J. Obasi as a production location for his upcoming Nollywood thriller, Ojuju. Districts in the city include: Oregun Ojodu Opebi Akiode Alausa Agidingbi Magodo Maryland Government Residence Area, Ikeja Ikeja is home to a large computer market, popularly known as Otigba. Begun in 1997 as a small market of only 10 shops, the current market now has well over 3000. While most vendors provide the expected computer sales and repair services, it is possible to find sales and repair services for various types of office equipment and electronic devices; as the market is unplanned, it has experienced growing pains. Some local residents are upset at the expanding market. Traffic around the area has become congested, it can be impossible to find a place to park; the electrical infrastructure overloaded and unreliable, has become stressed with the new market.
Computer and electronics stores require power to work on computers and demonstrate their products to potential customers, this added load has made the supply erratic. Railway stations in Nigeria Eko Hospital Surulere
Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education
Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education known as AOCOED, is a higher education institute located in Oto-Awori community in the Oto-Awori area of Ojo, Lagos State. Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education offers the award of Nigeria Certificate in Education and undergraduate first degree courses in Education, having affiliated to Ekiti State University; the college, called Lagos State College of Education, was established in 1958 as a Grade III teacher training college, matriculating about ninety students in its first year. In 1982, due to lack of basic infrastructures, modern facilities and increasing population, the college was moved from Surulere to its present site in Oto-Awori. Kunle Ajayi Sarah Adebisi Sosan school of science school of education school of art and social science school of vocational and technical education school of early childhood and primary education school of language Afeez Oyetoro List of schools in Lagos List of colleges of education in Nigeria Official website
