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Apongbon street was named after Acting Governor McCrosky. Strange? Yes. Prior to his appointment as Acting Governor, he was a business man and Assessor to the court in Tinubu. He was a friend to Fagbemi Dawodu, the rich business man of Nupe origin(Tapa) turned Lagosian. When Fagbemi reverted to Christianity after abandoning Ifa that he was born into. McCrosky was his God-father at his baptism. Fagbemi was the owner of the giant house that sprawled from Broad Street to the Marina at Olowogbowo.
The CMS mission rented it to house offices and residence for Bishop Ajayi Crowther. The school founded by Crowther's son-in-law, Rev Thomas Babington Macaulay, (CMS Grammar School) was also initially housed there. The front of that building was named Bishop Street (till today). The street nearest to it is at the back was named Apongbon Street (till today) after Fagbemi's friend, McCrosky who was bald in the head but had a bushy ginger-colored beard. So all over Lagos he was known as Oyinbo a-pon-ni-gbon. (the white man with the reddish beard). A-pon-ni-gbon was shorteneded to Apongbon.