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© Oba Dr. Adedapo Adewale Tejuoso, CON, D.Sc All rights reserved. This book is copyright and so no part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, electrostatic, magnetic tape, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the express written permission of the copyright owners. First Edition ISBN: 978 - 978 - 951 -649-0 Published by: Pumark Nigeria Limited [Educational Publishers] Suite 14, Wing 1 - Jimmyco Shopping Complex - 19/21, Abeokuta Express Road, Beside ConOil/Sweet Sensation, Abule-Egba Junction, Agege, Lagos. Tel: 08022235233, 09093202174 E-mail:[email protected] Authors Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 08035592930 GRA, Ibara Abeokuta. Preface to the Royal Roots A Woman Industrialist: A Biography of Chief Mrs. Bisoye Tejuoso by Mrs. Omodele Karunwi is being preserved in its entirety because Mama was seen, spoken to, and her daily activities were captured in the book. A remarkable statement in the foreword to the book by a renowned scholar, diplomat, administrator of highest esteem, Pa S. O. Adebo, touched me deeply and is hereby summarised. - The last paragraph - "Mrs. Karunwi's book will not be the only book to be written on this remarkable daughter, Chief Mrs. Bisoye Tejuoso, of Egba land. But it is the first and Mrs. Karunwi deserves commendation for having written in a style so lucid and so pleasant to read" signed S. O. Adebo 28 May, 1991. - And as a cognac drink after a good meal, the editor Mrs Omodele Karunwi in her Preface had this to say; "Chief Bisoye Tejuoso has played her role successfully as a mother and head of her family, as a religious leader and an industrialist". It is hoped that her achievements will be an INSPIRATION to the present generation particularly to young women aspiring to make BUSINESS a career. More of her quotable golden gems will be found in the book of her accounts of Mama's life and times. This book aims at making its own contribution to the writing of lives and history of women in Nigeria as you read on. On my own part, I want to appreciate the very woman, a mother in a million who loved me so well, that gave her life for mine. My contribution in this project is to BLESS her memory, and to preserve in writing the PRECIOUS woman that gave me a wonderful life. To preserve her acts of love, selflessness, hard work, trust in God and a solid foundation she met, laid on and left for us, grandchildren, great grand children, born and yet unborn. (1) We thank our heavenly father, for keeping all of us together for these past 20 years since her exit (19-9- 1996 -19-9-2016). I thank the Oloris, Molara, Yetunde and Labisi for peaceful co-existence and devotion. Also, I appreciate my devoted children, their spouses, our in-laws, extended families, friends, and highly esteemed chiefs of Oke-Ona, Bades, well-wishers and prayer partners at home and abroad. (2) My unalloyed appreciation for the project team that brought this dream into reality - Chief Lekan Ogundimu, the Publisher, Elder Prince Leke Taiwo, CEO of Pumark Books (Nig) Limited and his team, for they toiled day and night to search the royal archives to put together "cuttings" from Daily Newspapers to make our story authentic, the veracity of which is backed by the 4th estate of the realm - The Journalists in the reportage. (3) Our patronage of all papers yielded dividend and we thank them for their cooperation. Our deep appreciation to Mrs. Omotunde Karunwi for her initial foresight. (4) What touches us most is last attended to, my deepest love to all the mothers of my sons and daughters, our children for yielding to the love and instructions I/we all received from "Mama - a morally excellent woman." God bless you all. Amen. Oba Dr. Adedapo Adewale Tejuoso, CON, D.Sc. Karunwi III, Oranmiyan, Osile Oke-Ona, Egba. Acknowledgement to The Royal Roots For the dream of this book to become a reality, I am most grateful to God Almighty, the Father of lights with whom there is no variables neither shadow of turning. From Him comes every good gift and every perfect gift. There is nothing a man can receive expect that which he has been given from above. And He that comes from above is above all. He that comes from heaven is above all (John 3:31). I owe everything to God. Before the stories in this book could actually become a book, and particularly for taking the present shape, some well- meaning individuals and organizations need to be acknowledged and sincerely appreciated for their efforts and contributions. For some, if not for their past efforts, perhaps there would have been nothing to put together like what you are now holding. I acknowledge the efforts of other individuals who added value to the works on ground, what others have done, to produce this book. Those who are acknowledged and others who are inadvertently unacknowledged, I feel that the weight of my ingratitude is so much heavy on me that the swiftest wing of recompense is too slow to level up with them or overtake them. All I can say for now is 'I sincerely appreciate you and I thank all of you.' Of a truth, my mother, the late, Chief (Mrs). Esther Bisoye Tejuoso was a news maker, from cradle to grave. At every stage of her life, my mother’s activities generated news items and creative stories that occupied a pride of place in Nigeria's leading newspapers and magazines for more than three decades, especially in the 70s, 80s and 90s. I must acknowledge and appreciate various comments made, features written and interviews that were well reported concerning the life, times, death and burial of my mother. Some of the Newspapers and Magazines that must be acknowledged are now extinct while a few others are still alive and active in the business of news reporting. Among the former are Daily Sketch, The Monitor, 'National Concord, Mid-Week Digest, Lagos Horizon, Fame, Third Eye, TNT, The Week, Today's Choice and The Post Express. The news media that performed valiantly then and are still alive up till now that I appreciate include: Daily Times, The Guardian, Nigerian Tribune, Punch, This Day, Vanguard, Tell and Newswatch. I am most grateful to the Publishers of these news media for their kind permission to make use of the related published items which were newspaper cuttings and clippings at that time. I appreciate the individuals working with these news media who reported the stories with avid professionalism. I am grateful to all members of staff of the Palace Secretariat, especially Mrs. Mercy Chibundum and Mrs. Grace Abioye who rendered untiring typesetting services to produce this book. I acknowledge the contributions and advice I received from my amiable tripartite Oloris, my children and grandchildren for their support at all times. If there is anyone whose interest and enthusiasm to see this book published if not more than mine, then that person is my friend of many years, Chief Lekan Ogundimu. I most sincerely acknowledge his priceless contributions and advice. I also appreciate the immense contributions of the publisher, Pumark Nigeria Limited, as led by the Managing Director/Chief Executive Office, Elder Leke Taiwo, and his staff for collating the pieces of stories together, making it a unified whole that this book has turned to. Finally, I am grateful to Mrs. Omodele Karunwi whose biography of Chief (Mrs.) Bisoye Tejuoso is included as a part of this book. I sincerely appreciate all of you. Thank you all. Oba Dr. Adedapo Adewale Tejuoso, CON, D.Sc. Karunwi III, Oranmiyan, Osile Oke-Ona, Egba. Foreword to The Royal Roots The Osile of Oke Ona Egba; Oba Adedapo Tejuoso, Karunwi III has authored, co-authored, and contributed to several publications since he qualified in the mid sixties as a medical doctor one year after me in Trinity College Dublin, Eire, house officers together at LUTH and training as a specialist Public Health Physician a year before me in Bristol University, UK. Virtually all his major literary inputs came after him; a great grandson of Karunwi I, ascended the throne of his forebears as the 8th Osile of Oke Ona Egba. This publication differs from virtually all the others that precede it in one important aspect - it has a FOREWORD which the others do not. To be invited to write a Foreword to this magnum opus is a privilege that I cannot describe adequately in words. This is more so when one recalls that no less a person than Chief Simeon O. Adebo, arguably the most accomplished Head of (the Civil) Service this country has ever had, wrote the Foreword to the biography (included in this publication), of Oba Tejuoso's mother - Chief Mrs. Bisoye Tejuoso 1 the 3rd Iyalode of Egbaland." A woman Industrialist" written by Mrs. Modele Karunwi. It is one of the few in the series of publications that Oba Adedapo Tejuoso did not co-author. To therefore follow late Baba Adebo in writing the second Foreword in the Tejuoso series is an honour and recognition that I will always cherish. Besides the 1991 biography of mama by Mrs. Karunwi, there is also included in this book, the 2004 reproduction of a brochure and information on the Iyalode Tejuoso Malaria Foundation initiated, founded and sponsored by Mama's eldest grandson, Lanre, who not only followed his father, the Osile's professional footsteps, but is now a Senator of the Federal Republic and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health.

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