Mamintal Alonto Adiong Jr. was born to a powerful political family, and so was raised in local Lanao del Sur politics. His father, the late "Mike" Adiong Sr., was also a former governor, and his brother Ansaruddin Alonto Adiong is the current...

Senator Alauya Alonto was born in Ramain, Lanao, shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. He studied under the tutelage of Hadji Nosca Alum, the highest Pandita of Lanao and took up Arabic literature and jurisprudence. In 1912 he...