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Open Daddy’s private notebookA Celestial Church historical account identifies Moses Ajovi as coming from Ijofin and travelling with S. B. J. Oshoffa to Lagos during Passion Week in 1951. This is a church historical account, not a photograph or proof of Okelarin kinship.
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Share a memory privatelyThe Nigerian Official Gazette of 15 June 1965 includes Ijofin in a customs-goods listing. The local research brief flags it as a source for place and name research; no individual family connection is established here.
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Share a memory privatelyA later historical judgment discusses Ijofin settlement and a 1961 declaration. It offers documentary context for the place; it is not a period image.
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Share a memory privatelyThe Methodist Imota history names Okelarin, also called Biolowotan, in its account of the early Christian group of 1890–1897, and Chief J. K. Okelarin in later church life. Their connection to the known family branch remains unknown.
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Share a memory privatelyThe historical judgment referenced in the research report names Johnson Kalejaiye Okelarin and records J. K. Okelarin’s 1978 appointment as Olisa of Imota. This does not establish a link to Adebayo’s branch or appoint a Family Head.
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Share a memory privatelyThe local archive research records “Villagers in Nigeria (1)”, a real 1960 photograph by Zdravko Pečar from the Museum of African Art, Belgrade, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Its exact town is not identified: period context, not confirmed as Ijofin/Imota.
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It is linked as national context only; no town image is substituted for a missing Ijofin or Imota photograph.