Career

Madam Tinubu was a slave trader and adversary of the British Colonial Government of what is now Nigeria that was banished by it from Lagos to her native Abeokuta. She was an active participant in the Atlantic Slave Trade who resisted its suppression. She became the first Iyalode of the Egba clan and was able to build a small financial empire through trading in arms and salt.

She died in 1887.

Tinubu Square on Lagos Island, a place previously known as Independence Square, is named after the late Oloye. Ita Tinubu (Tinubu"s precinct or Tinubu Square) had been known by that name long before the country"s independence, but it was renamed Independence Square by the leaders of the First Republic. Madam Tinubu was buried at Ojokodo Quarters in Abeokuta.