A former Senator, Shehu Sani, has called on the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), to immortalize late global trotter Moshood Ajala, for his vast travelling exploits around the world.
Senator Sani disclosed this in a post via his official X account, stating that Ajala should be conferred with a posthumous award by the FRSC, suggesting that a street could be named after him in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
His post read “In 1957, a young Nigerian Moshood Olabisi Ajala embarked on a worldwide Journey with a scooter. He travelled to over 40 countries.
“He met with Soviet leader Nikita Sergeyeve, Israeli PM Golder Meir, Shah of Iran& Egypt President. He died in 1999. The FRSC should immortalise him with a posthumous award. A street should be named after him in Abuja,” Sani added.
Moshood Adisa Olabisi Ajala, also known as Ọlábísí Àjàlá, was a Nigerian journalist, travel writer, actor, and later, a Lagos socialite, News About Nigeria gathered.
He is famous for being a globe-trotter, with escapades in Israel, Egypt, Palestine, India, the United States, and several other countries around the world. In 1957, he embarked on a worldwide journey with a scooter and travelled to over 40 countries, as pointed out by Senator Sani.
During his travels, he met with Soviet leader Nikita Sergeyeve, the then Israeli Prime Minister Golder Meir, Shah of Iran, as well as the Egypt President.
His only published book, which covered his travel adventures, was titled An African Abroad, published in 1963, according to available data.
His name is used as slang today in the Western part of Nigeria to tease people who cannot seem to stay in one place. They are called: ‘Ajala the traveller’. Ajala died on February 2, 1999, at the age of 64.
