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How Oba Babatunde Akran shaped modern Badagry 

Posted on January 16, 2026 by CoreNews Africa

​How Oba Babatunde Akran shaped modern Badagry

For nearly half a century, Oba Babatunde Akran sat at the centre of Badagry not as a distant royal figure, but as a listener…

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