BREAKING: Former Lagos governor, Lateef Jakande, dies at 91

  Here is the full script on the man Jakande and His many Legacies. A former governor of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lateef Jakande, is dead. Jakande, according to a family source, died at the age of 91. Popularly called Lateef Kayode Jakande, he was born in the Epetedo area of Lagos Island, Lagos State on 29 July 1929. Both parents are from Omu-Aran, Kwara State. He studied at the Lagos public school at Enu-Owa, Lagos Island, then at Bunham Memorial Methodist School, Port Harcourt (1934–43). He studied briefly at King’s College, Lagos in 1943, and then enrolled at Ilesha…

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