 Today's throwback, Madame Tinoubeba woman whose name and legacy still define legacy's reward for tenacity reaches Nigerians of the 1800s and the early 1900s and the timeless lessons we must learn from them for lasting riches. I must start this short literary bio-peak with a stand intellectual warning. Madame Efouroye Tinoubeba's bitter sweet life when put to review by modern literary critics must not be subjected to the ash lens of presentism, that is the practice of interpreting and evaluating past events and historical figures based on present-day moral, social and cultural standards. Efouroye Tinoubeba was a peculiarly enigmatic Yoruba female merchant and slave trader in pre-colonial and colonial Lagos, Nigeria. Efouroye Tinoubeba was a politically and economically astute and influential figure in Lagos during the reigns of obas or kings, adele, dosumu, uluwole, anakitoe. Having the latter two obas to attain the throne, she married oba adele while he was in exile and followed him to Lagos on his re-installation. She used his connections to establish a successful trading network with the Portuguese, Spanish and Brazilian merchants in slaves, tobacco, salt, cotton, palm oil, coconut oil and firearms. She reportedly owned over 360 personal slaves, some of whom she used to constitute a standing militia. She indeed had her own army. She reportedly, she reportedly next to the allotter of Otto and the mainland, had owned the largest piece of real estate of mainland Lagos. Asparling Kolanot Farm, Igbo-Obi, from whence the Igbo-Obi name was coined was said to have encompassed the all of where the National Orthopedic Hospital is in Igbo-Obi today and as far westward as Obela and where Luwole. Lagos University Teaching Hospital is presently located. Madame Tinumbu died in 1887 and was buried in Ojokodok Hortes of the ancient city of Abel Gutan after she had been declared personal non-gratia in Lagos due to her refusal to stop trading in slaves and also after she had deployed her wealth and connections to supply arms and ammunition to Igbo forces in the battle with which they liberated themselves from the rapacious daonies. The role which and are the highly esteemed title of the Yellow Day Igbo, the famous Tinumbu Square on Lagos Island, a place originally known as Ita Tinumbu Tinumbu's Cup was changed to Independence Square in the first republic before it was reverted to its former original name. Also a statue memorializing our stance in Abel Gutan today, the didactic, Madame Tinumbu's heroic life both before and after her death portrays a woman of purpose determination, greed and strategy. She, like many go get a man of all times, refused to let fear define her life. She reportedly married up to five times her first in a native Luwole, second to Oba Adelae and first later to work captains in Lagos on Abel Gutan after an eviction from Lagos. That's it on the show tonight. I'm Bola Oba.