Abeokuta
Americannoun
noun
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But despite being among the Champions League title contenders for many seasons, not even their most partisan supporters foresaw a 5-1 second round, first leg victory over Remo Stars in Abeokuta.
From Barron's • Oct. 19, 2025
She chose to lay it out on a highway connecting the cities of Lagos and Abeokuta on 7 July.
From BBC • Nov. 15, 2023
In 1994, pursued by the military dictator Sani Abacha, he fled Abeokuta, clinging to the back of a motorbike for 10 hours.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2021
The Feminist Coalition is part of a long Nigerian legacy of women spearheading social movements, including the Aba Women’s Riots of 1929 and the Abeokuta Women’s Union founded by activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti in 1946.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2021
Nevertheless in the following year Gl�gl� captured Ishagga and in 1864 unsuccessfully attacked Abeokuta, both towns in the Lagos hinterland.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
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