Nigeria, May 14 -- Although I did not meet Dr Omololu Olunloyo until early 1962, it was only a matter of time before that happened, as he, Dr Lekan Are (whose mother was from the Aboderin family), and my maternal brother, Chief Olubunmi Aboderin, had known each other before they entered secondary school. Both the Olunloyo and Aboderin families had Kudeti origins.

Omololu Olunloyo and Lekan Are entered Government College, Ibadan in 1948, while Olu Aboderin entered Ibadan Grammar School in 1949. The three friends sometimes spent parts of their school holidays together, or separately, at the Oke-Bola residence of Mr (later Chief) Moyosore Aboderin, a wealthy man whom they recognised as a "big brother." He was about 15 years older than them....