[4] The NYM was formed by members of the Lagos intelligentsia who were protesting the plan for Yaba College, which they considered would provide inferior education to Africans.
[1] The Egbe Omo Oduduwa, a Yoruba social welfare organization formed in London in 1945, was inaugurated in Ile Ife in June 1948.
In August of that year, a number of Yoruba chieftains sent him to see the Alaafin of Oyo and try to make him drop support for the nationalist National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons.
[1] In 1958, he was appointed Chairman of the Lagos Executive Development Board, which had authority to demolish unsanitary buildings and undertake town planning schemes.
[12] The board was also involved in freehold housing and estate development in Surulere, North East and South West Ikoyi reclamation schemes and up to one thousand acres reclaimed in Victoria Island.
[citation needed] Abayomi became the first Nigerian Chairman of the Board of the University College Hospital, Ibadan in 1958, a position he held until 1965.
He served on the board or as chairman of several companies for the rest of his life Sir Kofo died peacefully at home on 1 January 1979 at the age of 82, leaving behind a widow, Oyinkan, Lady Abayomi, who was herself a prominent figure in the history of Nigeria.