₦airaland Forum

Yesterday, the Gbemiga Abiodun Memorial Education Support Program awarded over Ninety Million Naira to students in Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Institutions across Ogun State.

The program awarded-:

-₦39,750,000 to 159 students from nine tertiary institutions in Ogun State.

-₦14,700,000 to 294 primary school pupils in Ogun State

-₦36,600,000 to 366 secondary school students in Ogun State.

This initiative, founded in memory of Governor @DapoAbiodunCON's son Gbemiga, is dedicated to empowering deserving students through educational support.

In honour of Gbemiga's creativity, the family has also introduced "The Creative Students Category" to encourage young talents.

The aim is to expand this initiative beyond the current three Remo LGAs to other parts of Ogun State, ensuring more students benefit from this support.

Since the program began in 2023, they have increased the number of beneficiaries from 600 to 1,000 students across different educational levels.

haybhi1:
Gracias. Na rich man be this wey dey mind the people o. Una no go talk o. Small time una no go let us hear word, saying rich men are stingy in Nigeria, they don't give out.

Lanrelagboi:
Yesterday, the Gbemiga Abiodun Memorial Education Support Program awarded over Ninety Million Naira to students in Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Institutions across Ogun State.

The program awarded-:

-₦39,750,000 to 159 students from nine tertiary institutions in Ogun State.

-₦14,700,000 to 294 primary school pupils in Ogun State

-₦36,600,000 to 366 secondary school students in Ogun State.

This initiative, founded in memory of Governor @DapoAbiodunCON's son Gbemiga, is dedicated to empowering deserving students through educational support.

Babasessy:
The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

                                                                             http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

helinues:
Nice one

fuckJones:
(A case study of Nigeria citizens & their elected oppressors).

During the Soviet dictatorship of Joseph stalin. He was a brutal dictator with mind of his own. On one fateful day, stalin came to Politburo meeting with a live chicken. Standing in front of audience, He started to pluck the feathers of the live chicken off one by one. The chicken trembled in pain, blood tricking out of its pores. It gave out grievous cries, but stalin being a cruel dictator continued without remorse plucking the feathers out until the chicken was completely Unclad. After which, he threw the chicken on the ground. The Unclad chicken was staggering in pain. stalin goes into his pocket and from his pockets, he took out some chicken food and started to throw it at the poor & hapless creature. The poor chicken in pain started eating and stalin started walking towards his seat. As he walked away, he kept dropping some feeds on the floor & the chicken followed him and sat feeding from his feet.

Joseph stalin then turned to members of his political party leadership. He said, "This chicken represents the people". "You must disempower them, brutalise them, beat them up, starve them and then leave them". "If you do this, go into your pocket & give them peanuts when they are in that helpless and desperate situation, they will blindly follow you for the rest of their life, worshiping you". "They will think you are a hero forever. They will forget that, you're responsible for their sorrowful situation in the first place." Breath taking, isn't it ?

Now! Take a look at all the people some Nigerians are busy defending on social media. Take a look at those they call their heroes. They are the same people who plunged Nigeria into the situation she is. They are the same people who are responsible for their predicaments. Did you see the numbers of people that throng to Saraki's House during this Sallah period to go collect peanuts? People trooping to Bola Ahmed Tinubu Foundation offices to collect branded One kilo bag of Rice & Noddles. Did you see the number of people of all ages who troop out to welcome Ex- convict James Ibori to South South! Do you see the number of handle mop following obi as if he is a seat? what of the one following dino malaye?

Your guess is as good as mine. Nigerians kill those they should defend and defend those they should kill! Pass to all your contacts & let your Political & Religion Leaders read, understand & digest.

anonimi:
How is it nice to steal billions that should provide free education for every Ogun child, then turn around to give some millions to a few as support for their education? Is this not the same agbalowomeri formula for Tinubu hiking tertiary school fees for every student, then giving a few of them loans

helinues:
Must you guys cry profusely on everything

Make una stop this bitter politics jare

anonimi:
How is this a rebuttal of what was said

BabaHenry:
You don't even know what they are talking about.
You just rushed to typed your shit as usual...

Gbemiga is the late son of the current Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State

Sharingiscaring:
This is commendable. There's no better way to honor the memory of late Gbemiga.

nabegibeg:
This is pure scam

You people are too sentimental.

You will know if this memory is still alive or initiative after dapo lives offices.

haybhi1:
My bad, I just commented and real only the headline, not the content–funny thing, it's my first/second time doing something like that, cos I'm on the run atm.

Anyway, don't mind my bullocks. Sorry. It won't repeat itself.

Also, you goofed saying 'as usual', I don't go about here spilling rubbish. Not in my nature

Alliswell248:
Try and do yours , you that is not sentimental.

Enemy of progress