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unusual facts about Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta



2001 White House shooting

In July 2001, Pickett, then 48 years old, was sentenced to 3 years at the Federal Medical Center, Rochester, followed by 3 years of probation.

Abeokuta

Between 1877 and 1893 the Yoruba Civil Wars occurred, and Abeokuta opposed Ibadan, which led the king or alake of the Egba to sign an alliance with the British governor, Sir Gilbert Carter.

Abeokuta North/Obafemi Owode/Odeda constituency

Chief M.K.O Abiola was a prominent Nigerians from Abeokuta North.

Africa General Service Medal

Nigeria 1918, was granted for service during a revolt by the Egba people between Abeokuta and Lagos known as the Adubi War.

Chantal McCorkle

After being transferred from FCI Dublin in California, as of July 2009 she was an inmate at FMC Carswell (Fort Worth, Texas) in the United States with an expected prison sentence expiry date of 7 July 2014.

Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips

He is a grandson of Phillip Bamgbose and Theresa Fatola Adeogun of Ajale Compound Igbajo, Osun State, Federal Republic of Nigeria, and of Henry Isaac Kobina-Badu Williams, of Cape Coast, Republic of Ghana and Joanna Olasumbo Williams of Itesi, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Dimeji Bankole

The son of Abeokuta chief, Alani Bankole, he was a businessman before being elected to the House.

Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta

The Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Abeokuta came into existence on 21 April, 1983, when the state hospital, Idi-Aba, was handed over to the federal government by the then state Governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba for development into a federal tertiary health institution for the people of Ogun State and Nigerians in general.

Frank Locascio

As of December 2011, LoCascio is imprisoned at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Massachusetts.

Henry Stanhope Freeman

The Ogun River leading to Abeokuta was not safe for canoe traffic, with travelers at risk from Egba robbers.

In his Annual Report for 1863, Freeman said that trade had almost stopped altogether due to the by war between Ibadan and Abeokuta.

Madam Tinubu

Madam Efunroye Tinubu was an active adversary of the British Colonial Government of what is now Nigeria that was banished by it from Lagos to her native Abeokuta.

Marjorie Senechal

The family soon moved to Lexington, Kentucky, and Senechal grew up as a "narco brat" on the grounds of the Lexington Narcotic Hospital, a prison farm for drug addicts, where her father was associate director.

Moshood

Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, tertiary learning institution in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

Moshood Abiola Polytechnic

The Ojere campus is in the South-Eastern part of Abeokuta, covering about 960 hectares of rolling land bounded by the Ogun River to the south.

Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Abeokuta

At the handing over ceremony on that day, the Ogun State Military Governor, Navy Captain Oladeinde Joseph, commended the Nigerian Navy for bringing a model secondary school to Abeokuta.

The Nigerian Navy Secondary School Abeokuta, is a secondary school located in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Owu kingdom

The Olowu of Owu, Oba (King) Dr. Olusanya Adegboyega Dosunmu II (Amuroro Ruling House) ended the conferment of Ogboni traditional titles in Owu Abeokuta because the Ogboni culture is alien to Owu culture.

Papalolo

Plays on Nigerian TV included the very successful comedy Owo Tabua (Plenty Money), which was syndicated on NTA, Ibadan, Lagos Television (LTV 8) and Ogun State Television, OGTV, Abeokuta.

Rabiu Kwankwaso

He bags a Doctor of Science (Hons) from University of Maiduguri and awarded a Doctor of Science and International Relations (Honoris Causa) for his contribution to public service by the Crescent University (University of Islamic Mission for Africa) Abeokuta, Nigeria in September 2012.

Reuben Abati

Reuben Abati, born November 7, 1965 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, is Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria.

Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh

In 1851, she led an all-female army consisting of 6,000 warriors against the Egba fortress of Abeokuta.

Sol Wachtler

He served a 15-month sentence, first at the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, N.C., and later at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn., after he had been stabbed in the shoulder while dozing in his cell.

Susan Rosenberg

Rosenberg was one of the first two inmates of the High Security Unit (HSU), a high-security isolation unit in the basement of the Federal Correctional Institution (currently the Federal Medical Center) in Lexington, Kentucky.

William Rice Mulliner

He met the Bashorun of Abeokuta, who told him that the recent robberies of traders' property were due to the war with Ibadan.


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