Showing posts with label Eruwa Pineapple Plantation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eruwa Pineapple Plantation. Show all posts

Saturday, September 20, 2014

In 1956, when the Queen Elizabeth, the 2nd of England visited Nigeria






In 1956, when the Queen Elizabeth, the 2nd of England come to Nigeria, she visited the Eruwa Pineapple Plantation (now in Oyo State). My grandfather was the plantation manager then.
The farm used to supply the pineapple to the Lafia Canning factory in Ibadan, owned by Western Nigeria Development Corporation, WNDC, at the time. The citrus canned by the Lafia factory was supplied from the Apoje Farm Settlement near Ijebu Igbo (now in Ogun State)
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