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  • ‘Aregbesola has shamed critics’

    ‘Aregbesola has shamed critics’

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has urged critics of Governor Rauf Aregbesola to come and see how the governor is creating something out of nothing.

    A statement by the Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Kunle Oyatomi, said: “Those who do not see anything good in Aregbesola should come to Olaiya junction in Osogbo, today, when the governor will open a dual-carriage way dedicated to workers.

    “Despite financial difficulties the state is experiencing, workers’ interest remains paramount in the governor’s, so much so that he named a major access way ‘Workers’ Drive’.

    “Things are changing; people are marvelling at how it is possible for Aregbesola, despite financial difficulty, to accomplish projects which richer states are not doing.

    “Those criticising the governor refused to recognise the uncommon intelligence needed for any leader to work his way skilfully around such economic impasse as Osun has gone through since 2014.

    “The classic infrastructural road network in Osogbo will become the hub of profitable economic networking which only good infrastructure promotes. With the naming of the new ‘Workers’ Drive’, Aregbesola has shamed the opposition which accused him of not doing much for workers.

    “A man who cares less for workers would not think of naming a major street in Osogbo after them. When Aregbesola became governor, he inherited an administration and economic space which was considered the third poorest in Nigeria. But today, Osun is acknowledged as among the best ten states, whose economy is seen as progressive, socially responsible, peaceful and with the least number of unemployed youths.

    “Those who will have the courage to be at Olaiya will never go back home and say Aregbesola has done nothing for the state. The story is indeed changing. What is visible and touchable on ground is an unstoppable vindication that Aregbesola is doing what nobody ever has done in Osun.”

  • Aregbesola pays tribute to Adeboye at 76

    Aregbesola pays tribute to Adeboye at 76

    THE Governor of Osun,  Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has described the Global General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye,  as ‘the voice of peace and comfort in a troubled and edgy world’ and a harbinger of hope to millions of souls across the world. Aregbesola dropped this accolade in a message commemorating the 76th birthday of the foremost man of God yesterday.

    The governor, in a statement yesterday, described Adeboye as a beacon of hope for the numerous hopeless souls, reconciling them with God through his sermons and evangelical engagements all over the world. Aregbesola said few people are chosen by God for this kind of evangelical assignment in a generation, saying such chosen few are rare breed and special creation, who sparingly grace this earthly terrain.

    Aregbesola noted that Adeboye is an epitome and embodiment of knowledge, deep faith and a messenger who spread the word of God across the globe untiringly despite his graceful old age. According to the governor, the arrival of the man of God at the threshold of 76 years is an august occasion, which is very special to his congregation across the globe, Nigeria, Osun State, friends and well-wishers across other faiths.

    “Pastor Adeboye is a well educated man who gave up his brilliant academic career to do the work of God. He is a man of deep faith with apostolic fervour who has taken Christian evangelism to the nooks and crannies of this nation and the uttermost parts of the world. There is virtually no community in Nigeria where his church is not firmly established or any part of the world where there is no parish of the RCCG.

    “He is also a man of prodigious energy. Even at 76, he doesn’t appear to be slowing down, but his light continues to shine brighter and brighter. He is personally a very humble and meek man. He radiates love and deep affectation, always welcoming all and generous to a fault. He played fatherly role to all. His accommodation knows no bound, transcending, religious, ethnic and class lines. I have found his calming words very assuring even at my most challenging times, whenever I am privileged to meet him.

    “He is a voice of peace and comfort in a troubled and edgy world; bringing hope to the hopeless and reconciliation with God to the faithless, through his sermons and evangelical engagements all over the world. He is the essential Omoluabi, a gift from our state, Osun, to the world. He has brought honour and glory to our state, indeed the Yoruba race, in particular his Ijesa homestead.”

  • Aregbesola gets kudos for Osun’s development

    Aregbesola gets kudos for Osun’s development

    Participants at a two-day capacity building workshop by Medium Term Sector Strategy (MTSS) in Osun State have hailed Governor Rauf Aregbesola for charting the course for the growth and development of the state.

    In its bid to drive development through budget preparation and implementation, the government, through the Ministry of Economic Planning, Budget and Development, organised a capacity building seminar for Sector Plan Development teams.

    Participants at the Ede workshop include private sector organisations, civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations, community leaders, political parties, security agencies, members of organised labour, members of Exco and heads of government agencies and corporations.

    The Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Cooperative, Mr Ismaila Alagbada, noted that the training will give direction to stakeholders in the Osun project.

    He said the workshop gave participants the opportunity to peep into the Aregbesola administration and its 10-year plan of building the state to become self-sustaining.

    Alagbada said any state determined to grow beyond monthly allocations from the Federal Government should give development a human face the way Osun is doing.

    He said: “I am happy to have participated in this very useful workshop. It is an opportunity to join in the planning for the growth and development of our dear state.

    “The governor is passionate about the growth of Osun; we have seen that through this workshop. For Aregbesola to approve this, it shows he wants every stakeholder to be on the same page with him.

    “This is what any state or society that is determined about growth and development must do.”

    The Coordinator of Osun Civil Societies Coalition, Comrade Waheed Lawal, said the sector plan teams saw the essence of prioritising programmes based on people’s needs.

    He said through such workshops, unnecessary programmes would not be included in budgets of government agencies.

    Lawal, who said every sector team needed to understand the workings of the Medium Term Sector Strategy (MTSS) for proper budgeting, added that Osun is setting the standard for development.

    He said Aregbesola’s vision to develop the state remained clear, hence the approval of the workshop to share the vision with stakeholders.

  • Aregbesola, Osinbajo’s wife, others pray for safe return of abducted Dapchi schoolgirls

    Aregbesola, Osinbajo’s wife, others pray for safe return of abducted Dapchi schoolgirls

    •Officials’ wives conference opens

    Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has urged Nigerians to pray for the safe return of the 110 Dapchi schoolgirls who were abducted in Yobe State recently.

    Also, the wife of the Vice-President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, noted that the virtues of motherhood had declined.

    She said those who abducted the girls were born by women, have sisters and probably have daughters too.

    Aregbesola spoke at the opening of a two-day conference of Osun Officials’ Wives Association (OSUNOWA), with the theme: Virtuous Woman: Pushing for Greater Development.

    The governor urged the participants to pray to God to touch the hearts of the abductors to release the girls and others in their captivity.

    He said: “I want to use the opportunity of this gathering, being a gathering of mostly women, to ask that we all pray for the safe return of some girls who are supposed to be in school but were kidnapped by some criminals in the northern part of our country.

    “Let us pray for the safety of the girls and their return. We should all, as women and Nigerians, pray to God to touch the hearts of the criminals to hasten the release of those innocent girls and those with same experience.”

    Aregbesola described the abductors as cowards.

    To the women, the governor said: “Don’t fail to let your conference address the issue of those cowards who kidnapped our girls. Tell them in your resolutions that if they are not cowards, they should stop denying innocent girls their freedom but face soldiers in the region for peace keeping.”

    He noted that ?women are central to life as guarantors and caretakers of the human race.

    Aregbesola said nature has made women to be the stronger gender from the biological point of view.

    Mrs Osinbajo, who was the Mother of The Day, hailed the government for developing infrastructure across Osun State.

    ?The Vice-President’s wife noted that the theme of the Conference is apt and carefully selected, saying every woman must assess herself to see that she is pushing for greater development.

    She urged the participants to be fully involved in the presentations and other programmes that have been scheduled for the conference.

    Mrs Osinbajo said: “The challenges we face as a nation is a product of the negligence of our civic responsibilities as women and mothers. What is development today may not be development tomorrow. That is why we need greater development.

    “We need to assess ourselves as individuals, women, mothers and wives? of government officials, particularly on the need to impact on our collective lives and in the lives of other people.”

    The wife of Osun State governor, Alhaja Sherifat Aregbesola, said the conference was borne out of the concern to extend the frontiers of human development.

    She said the conference would be a forum where government ?officials’ wives would be further retooled and equipped with extant and emerging knowledge on various aspects of life.

    She said: “Our development focus will embrace training in skills and economic empowerment, creation of awareness and intervention in critical health-related issues, civic and development policy advocacy, among others.

    “Similar associations have attained a lot of mileage in our sister-states. We are happy to note that recently Ondo State inaugurated its own association. This is a good development, which promises to create a stronger bond and enhance integration among women in the Southwest.”

    ?Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi hailed the virtuous women among the wives of leaders.

    The governor noted that most politicians and leaders would have misbehaved if they were not blessed with virtuous women as wives?.

    He said: “A virtuous woman is someone who is foresighted and noble. A virtuous woman, therefore, plays a major role in development. I, therefore, congratulate the wife of Osun State governor for bringing up this programme.”

    Other dignitaries at the programme included the wives of Ekiti, Lagos and Oyo state governors, Mrs Feyisetan Fayose, Mrs Bolanle Ambode and Mrs. Florence Ajimobi.

    Others included the Secretary to the Governments of Osun and Oyo states, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti and Mr. Olalekan Alli as well as the Chief of Staff to Osun State Governor, Mr Gboyega Oyetola.

     

     

  • Aregbesola charges youths to take their historic position

    Aregbesola charges youths to take their historic position

    …as Southwest youths converge in Osogbo

    The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has challenged Nigerian youths to wake-up from slumber and hold firmly to their future by being productive and hardworking in all they do.

    He said for Nigeria to reclaim it glorious position of providing genuine and outstanding leadership among the comity of nations, her youths must ?rise to the present challenges and take their historic position to lead the black race.

    Governor Aregbesola stated this at the 2018 South-West Conference of the Junior Chamber International (JCI) held at Leisure Spring Hotels, Osogbo, the state capital.

    Aregbesola who was represented by the Commissioner for Special Duties, Hon. Mudashiru Toogun, described youths as most energetic, productive, proactive as well as the hope for better future, saying youths must not be found wanting in the effort to take the country to greater heights.

    He called on Nigerian youths to take the bull by the horn by contributing their very quota to the growth and development of the country as “the strength of a nation is measured by the strength of her youths”.

    Governor Aregbesola warned youths against getting involved in social vices but rather champion the virtues of hard work, integrity, honesty, pursuit of knowledge and the quest for innovation and path finding.

    He said for Nigeria to actualize her set objectives the youths must refrain from acts capable of rubbing the corporate integrity and reputation of the country? in the mud.

    According to him, ?the theme for the programme, “Citizens in Action: Recipe for National Development” is very apt and accurate in diagnosing the lapses in our system as well as looking for the way forward out of the existing quagmire.

    ?”The trend in other parts of the world is that young people are increasingly setting the pace. People like Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, the online retain corporation, Mark Zukerberg who invented Facebook, Jerry Yang who created Yahoo, David Cameron, the immediate past Prime Minister of Britain and several others who, as young men in their 20s and 30s, have taken direction of the world in business and politics.

    “In our land, we have Anthony Enahoro who was elected into the Federal House of Representatives in his early 20s, Adeyemi Lawson, who at 24 became the chairman of Lagos Island Local Government, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe who, as young men, became political colossus.

    Regrettably, too many of our youths have been wasted and are also poised to self-destruct.

    “The youths are the hope of our race and they must take their historic position. It is very disturbing that many of our youths are been found wanting. This is most regrettable.

    “It is regrettable that some youths of this generation are looking for unearned wealth and easy life, prompting them to engage in advance fee fraud, internet fraud, ritual killing, kidnapping, armed banditry and other violent crimes.

    “If this trend continues, the future is indeed bleak, hence the need for youths to separate seeking information from entertainment, as the world is becoming increasingly competitive and digitalised”, he added.

    Governor Aregbesola told the gathering that his administration has secured a better future for the people of the state through the provision of quality and functional education.

    ?”This is why our administration has taken education to be of utmost importance and driven the innovations we have made in education, including building new schools, free school feeding and providing e-learning tablets.

    “Youth development and engagement has also been given attention by our administration in Osun. After my inauguration, we set up Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES) which engaged 20,000 youths in public works in less than 100 days after our inauguration.

    “Two years later, we took in another 20,000. This feat was unprecedented in Nigeria.

    “The policy had ramifying micro-economic impact on Osun. The N200 million monthly allowance we gave them percolated the grassroots in buying food, paying rent, transportation and buying household goods. Three things then followed. One, Osun recorded the lowest unemployment rate in Nigeria.

    “Secondly, the crime rate in the state also fell to national lowest. Lastly, the GDP of Osun rose to become the seventh highest nationally” Aregbesola stressed.

    Earlier, the National? President of JCI, Mr Adeniyi Rasheed Balogun, challenged Nigerian youths not to rest on their oars in ensuring that they continue to use their youthful energy to make a difference towards national growth and development.

    He said JCI with its striking themes was bent to be at the forefront of building the Nigeria of citizens’ dream by uniting all sectors of society to make sustainable impact.

    In his remarks, the Executive Vice President of JCI (Southwest) and Conference Chairman, Mr Abiola Olorunnisola, said the 2018 Conference’s theme was critically chosen looking at the national need for a better community with the focus on citizens in action as Nigeria’s development is dependent on individuals’ actions and inactions.

    He said the conference was put together to awaken Nigerian youths to their responsibilities for national growth and development and as well to inspire the younger generation to make positive impact in national development.

     

     

  • Aregbesola lauds ABUAD

    Aregbesola lauds ABUAD

    • Proffers solution to herdsmen menace

    Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has described the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) as a model institution in Nigeria and Africa that is changing the face of education.

    Aregbesola who visited the university on Thursday said ABUAD is living up to its mission to provide quality education and make a positive impact in Nigeria, Arica and the whole world.

    The Osun Governor was received by ABUAD Chancellor/Founder, Aare Afe Babalola, his wife, Mrs. Modupe Babalola, Vice Chancellor, Prof Michael Ajisafe, other principal officers and senior officials of the university.

    The august visitor also inspected the new ABUAD Teaching Hospital which he noted would change the face of healthcare delivery in the country.

    Aregbesola praised Babalola for his quest to salvage the education sector through the ABUAD vision.

    He said: “ABUAD is a university with vision and mission, the university was established to change the face of education in Nigeria and Baba (Afe Babalola) is meeting the target.

    “He is giving Nigeria a good future with his project. This is a university where students are being prepared for future greatness and Baba is not only interested in students getting certificates but giving them an assured future.”

    Delivering a lecture, Aregbesola said the herdsmen uprising could be addressed by adopting modern methods of animal husbandry.

    This, he said, can restrict the animals for proper monitoring.

    He said: “I am not trying to justify killings or trying to say that the Fulanis should dominate Nigeria, but what I am saying is that Nigeria has failed to be technologically and innovatively advanced due to bad leadership.”

    “As we speak now, there are no green grasses in any part of Europe and they produced cattle Africa cannot even boast of.

    “They prepared their pasture, foliage and fodders during the six months of rainy season and kept to feed their cattle during the dry season.

    “The cattle are restricted within the ranches and I believe that if some nations could be thinking like this, Nigeria has no reason not to toe the same line.

    “We must turn this situation into huge economic opportunities for our people,” he said.

    In the Southwest, some of the farmers are still using the old and primitive hoes and cutlasses for farming.

    “This is the more reason why many of these peasant farmers can’t stand straight as 60. Even many of them look aged and their hands deformed and body diseased.”

     

  • Aregbesola to Osun workers: be tax agents

    Aregbesola to Osun workers: be tax agents

    Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has said that with the right revenue drive and a culture of tax payment among the people, the state, with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of about 2.44 trillion, has no reason to be poor.?

    Addressing permanent secretaries, directors, general managers and executive secretaries of government agencies and corporations in Osogbo, the state capital, the governor urged the civil service to help the government promote the culture of tax payment among the residents.?

    He decried the state’s poor economy, despite its huge GDP, saying it is more than that of some African countries.

    Aregbesola urged Osun State residents to change their attitude towards tax payment.

    He said: “If a territory or space like Osun can produce goods and services estimated at N2.44 trillion, then we have no reason to be poor. But it’s a pity that we can’t hide our faces from the fact that we are poor, and this is because our revenue generation is so poor.

    “Some African countries, which have presidents, don’t have that much of GDP as Osun. It’s saddening that we still find ourselves in this economic mess because our attitude to tax payment is poor and we are directly at fault for it.

    “I want to tell you that if we continue like this, then we are encouraging poverty. You public servants should begin to worry that it is only you who pay tax. It should interest you, as public servants, to ensure that every taxable adult in Osun pays his or her tax.

    “If we don’t quickly do something about our revenue generation, the dream of a better Osun that will be the cynosure of all eyes might painfully be a mirage. I came to Osun to become governor because I am from this state. I want it to develop. I want you too to begin to have the mindset that Osun must develop through you…”

  • Why Osun adopted parliamentary system, by Aregbesola

    Why Osun adopted parliamentary system, by Aregbesola

    Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has explained why his administration adopted the parliamentary system of government for local government administration.

    Speaking at the swearing-in ceremony for councillors representing the wards in the local governments, local council development areas (LCDAs), area councils and administrative offices, on Tuesday evening, the governor said the adoption of the system was in fulfilment of the people’s wish to deepen democracy.

    He said the parliamentary system would also entrench genuine democratic practice at the grassroots.

    Aregbesola said he was sensitive to the overwhelming wish of the people, as stated in the report of the Gbadegesin Adedeji-led committee on political reforms, that the parliamentary system of government be adopted.

    The governor noted that by adopting the parliamentary system, the state had complied with the wish of the people.

    According to him, the experience in the First Republic attests to the fact that the parliamentary system deepens democracy and offers far greater political representation and effective governance than any other system.

    Aregbesola argued that the decision to adopt the parliamentary system of government was also in fulfilment of Section 7 (1) of the Nigerian Constitution, which stipulates that “the system of local government by democratically elected local government councils is under this Constitution guaranteed and, accordingly, the government of every state shall, subject to Section 8 of this Constitution, ensure their existence under a law which provides for the establishment, structure, composition, finance and functions of such councils”.

    The governor said his administration’s action to adopt the new system was not against the constitution or contrary to the tenets of democracy but to galvanise good governance and effective representation.

    He said the parliamentary system was more democratic, compared to the executive, in that the latter tends towards dictatorship, arbitrariness and absolutism, since power is concentrated in one man’s hand with little or no check.

    Aregbesola said: “Our decision is not against the constitution, as quoted earlier. Nowhere did it mention executive or parliamentary – only that it must be democratic – and parliamentary system is as democratic as you can ever get.

    “You will recall that in 2012, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria asked for a memorandum on the review of the 1999 Constitution. A 15-man committee was set up in Osun under the chairmanship of Gbadegesin Adedeji to aggregate the opinions and views from the state.

    “The committee held public sittings for three weeks during which members of the public, institutions, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and others made submissions.

    “In the end, it was the overwhelming wish of the people, as stated in the committee’s report, that parliamentary system of government be adopted at all levels of government. What we have done, therefore, is to defer to the wish of the people in their clamour for parliamentary system of government.

    “To appreciate this gesture, in a parliamentary system, the executive emerges from and is formed in the parliament, making the members of Parliament to be members of the executive as well and the leadership of the executive to be first among equals, primus inter pares.

    “In a parliamentary system, decisions are taken collectively and must be agreed upon by the majority in the House while members of the executive, who are also parliamentarians, can and are daily called to answer questions on any executive action taken.

    “Because the executive members are appointed from parliament, a lot of cost is saved, compared to when fresh ‘persons have to be appointed as ministers, commissioners, chairmen of councils, etc’.

    “This system saves campaign cost and reduces the impetus for corruption in that a candidate only need to campaign in his or her constituency, unlike in the executive system where a presidential candidate must tour the whole country and a governorship candidate must tour the whole state while a chairmanship candidate must tour the entire local council.”

     

     

     

  • Low productivity still a major challenge in civil service – Aregbesola

    Low productivity still a major challenge in civil service – Aregbesola

    Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, said on Friday that low productivity remains one of the greatest challenges in the nation’s civil service.

    Aregbesola stated this in Osogbo while presenting awards to outstanding civil servants in the state.

    The governor said the ability of any country to develop its economy depends on the efficiency and productivity of its workforce.

    “It is unfortunate that as big as we are, and as famous as we are as a nation, we still lack the required productivity and efficiency to succeed as a country,’’ he said.

    Aregbesola, however, urged Nigerians, especially ‎bureaucrats, to rise up to the challenge by prioritizing efficiency, productivity and competence.

    “Our level of productivity as a people in Nigeria is abysmally low just as the menace has had negative impact on our economy as a nation. We have the resources but we are not productive.

    “And unfortunately, our environment typifies the low level of our productivity and we have a lot to do to improve it,’’ the governor added.

    NAN

  • Aregbesola: herdsmen killing threats to national security

    Aregbesola: herdsmen killing threats to national security

    Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has said the killing by herdsmen constitutes veritable threats to national security.

    The governor urged security agencies to end the menace.

    Aregbesola delivered an address, titled: African Knowledges and Alternative Futures, at an event to honour a professor of African History at the University of Texas, Houston, United States of America (USA), Prof Toyin Falola, on his 65th birthday.

    The event, chaired by Prof Jide Owoeye, proprietor of Lead City University in Ibadan, was also attended by scholars from different parts of Nigeria and other countries.

    Some of the dignitaries include the President of Historical Society of Nigeria, Prof Chris Ogbogbo, and Prof. Gloria Emeagwali, a professor of History and African Studies at Central Connecticut State University in USA, who delivered keynote addresses.

    Aregbesola said: “It is condemnable and it is hereby condemned very strongly. The taking of human lives, especially of unarmed innocent people, who are not in any state of war, is unjustifiable, cruel and should not be tolerated in any civilised society.

    “As a people, we need to tread carefully here on the killings by the herdsmen across the country. As bad and reprehensible as they are, they are not as deadly as the Nigerian Civil War we fought between 1967 and 1970.

    “So, I condemn the herdsmen atrocities. We must go beyond that to situate what will be our reaction and response as a people and a nation. However, I am joining other well-meaning people in calling on the security agencies to bring an end to the wittiness of this act.

    “The cardinal duty of the government is the protection of lives and property. Every life is sacred and the government should keep it so. Those who are engaged in this barbarous act should be hunted to the end of the earth, apprehended, tried and made to serve the full deed of the law. That should be our demand.

    “We should demand the apprehension of the criminals who torment the compatriots, and adequate judicial action should be taken against them. That is the only way we can tell Nigerians that their safety is guaranteed by the law and the government.”

    The governor cautioned against actions that could set the nation on fire.

    He noted that no nation or society can progress without peace.

    Aregbesola said: “This calls for all of us to be more reflective on issues… What we see in Syria, Yemen, what we are seeing in Sierra-Leone, and what we are seeing in Nigeria, makes it clear to us that peace is the only way to progress.

    “However, in the interest of black people of the world, Nigeria must not just exist. In the interest of the black race, Nigeria must not just exist but it must be strong and must be able to lead the continent to achieve its manifest, its historic destiny. That is why we must be careful in responding to some of these actions.”

    Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Olalekan Alli, said his administration believed in knowledge-driven government and governance as upheld by Falola.

    He added that the present Oyo State government would continue to place priority on knowledge-driven governance.

    The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, who was the royal father of the day, stressed the importance of education for Nigeria and African countries in overcoming socio-economic and political challenges.

    He said: “The Nigerian case calls for the intellectual input of the Yoruba to re-define the nature and pattern of relationship among the diverse and seemingly disparate ethnic groups or nations in Nigeria.

    “Scholars should lead other stakeholders and segments of society to provide intellectual response to restructuring the Nigerian federation. The African academia and intelligentsia should not concede leadership in this enterprise to indolent politicians and self-appointed opinion leaders whose stock in trade is soapbox grandstanding and parliamentary rhetoric.

    “Our claim to bring educated will only be meaningful, if we acquire knowledge, internalise its values and appropriate wisdom therefrom for finding solutions to the twin problems of underdevelopment and state collapse.”

    Orangun of Oke-Ila Oba Adedokun Abolarin said the essence of education was to serve others in achieving intellectual development.