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Item A Historical Analysis of Road Accidents in Kwara State up to 2010(Published by the College of Humanities, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria., 2019-07) Onagun, Rasheed; Adeshina, LukmanItem Historicizing the Changing Phases of Colonial Transport System in Ilorin Province, 1900 – 1960(28, 2019) Onagun, Rasheed; Awotayo, Olatunji J.Movement of people, goods and services had existed in human society since time immemorial. The colonial government effectively engaged the pre – colonial and the newly introduced colonial transport systems to exploit and developed their economic potentiality. This situation exploited the Emirate. The railway was meant for long distances freight evacuation, while the road served as a feeder to a major rail line or the other as well as human porterage. The paper adopts a historical and analytical methodology using primary sources like archival documents, oral interview, newspapers, and some secondary sources. The paper concluded that the changing phases of colonial transport system had empowered, developed and generated huge revenue to the Province. It gave rise to the creation of a new class of elites among the people of Ilorin.Item The Role of Muslim-Medicine Practitioners and the Growth of Islam in Ilorin since 19th Century: An Assessment(Department of History and International Relation, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin., 2017-12) Onagun, RasheedItem The Socio-Economic Impact of Trading in Used Household Items (Aganmu/Basiri) at Baboko Market, Ilorin, 1980-2018(Department of History and International Relation, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin., 2019-12) Adeshina, Lukman; Onagun, Rasheed; Suleiman, A. A.Item Traditional Medical Practices in Ilorin Emirate Up to 1900(Published by Department of History, UDUS., 2020-09) Onagun, Rasheed; Suleiman, A. A.A couple of factors precipitated the fame, strength and power of the Ilorin Emirate in the 19th century. These factors range from strategic location as a transit region, economy, cultural heterogeneity, military as well as medicine. The paper thereby discusses the significance and impact of traditional medicine in the sustenance of Ilorin Emirate as a power to reckon with in the 19th century. The discourse discusses how the Ilorin traditional professional healthcare providers have protected the community against diseases and epidemics, and how several common or ordinary, and severe ailments were cured. Huge success recorded in ensuring the healthy wellbeing of her people prompted the native to repose high trust and confidence in traditional medicine, and their anxiety, shunning and rejection of Colonial health services in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The paper uses secondary and primary sources such as oral interviews secured from resource persons, traditional medicinal items, and pictorial evidences of diagnosis, oracles and religious venerations to analyze how holistic medical cultures had helped to ensure and sustain the healthcare and wellbeing of the people of Ilorin in the 19th century.