The remains of the late Mrs. Comfort Ponnle will be buried Saturday, December 22 in Ada, Osun State. Night of Tribute will hold on Thursday, December 20 and Christian wake keep on Friday, December 21 in Ada, Osun State.
In our story on the late Mrs. Ponnle published yesterday, we erroneously wrote that she was to be buried yesterday.
The deeds of the late Mrs. Comfort Olufunke Ponnle in her 67 years on earth are enough reasons for those she left behind to forget their sorrows.
From her days in the civil service at the old Oyo State and Osun State, the late Mrs. Ponnle gave a good account of herself. As a member of the Planning Committee for the setting up of LAUTECH in the old Oyo State, Council member of The Polytechnic Ibadan, in the Old Oyo State, member, Committee for the Reorganisation of Technical Education in Osun State and Member/Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, UNDP-Osun State Human Development Fund, diligence was her watchword. It was to diligence she owed her Fellowship of both Yaba College of Technology and Federal Polytechnic, Ede, as well as the Fellowship of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.
The late Mrs. Ponnle and her husband spent the last four decades empowering people and showing them the way to make their ways better. One of their phenomenal contributions to nation building was through the institutionalisation of a viable annual scholarship scheme – MicCom Foundation for Educational Development (MIFED).
Apart from MIFED, she also supported her husband to contribute to the society in the form of several corporate philanthropic activities. She also engaged in several personal commitments that put smiles in the faces of so many individuals, families and institutions.
Born on November 22, 1944, in Ibadan, Oyo State, to the late Chief Salami Oluyole Balogun and the late Alhaja Humani Atinuke Asabi, she grew up in Ibadan. She had her elementary education in Ibadan and lived most part of her early life with her late uncle, Chief Ajayi Fabunmi, the Odole Atobase of Ile-Ife. The Ife chief trained her through secondary, modern school and teachers’ training college.
She attended African Church Primary School, Eko-tedo, Ibadan, from 1950 to 1957 and thereafter proceeded to Anglican Girls Secondary Modern School, Ile-Ife from 1959 to 1961, where she came out in flying colors in her final exams. It was in this school she met Tunde Ponnle, who later became her soulmate. He was a teacher in the school. They got married on Tuesday, April 26, 1966 in Ibadan.
After modern school, she proceeded to the United Missionary College, Ibadan for teacher’s training course from 1962 to 64. She obtained her Grade Two teachers certificate before moving to the University of Ife in 1969 for her associate diploma in Education, which she completed in 1970.
She earned a Higher Certificate in Telecom/Electrical Electronics from the Polytechnic of North London. She also obtained her certificate of practice from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Incorporated Engineers before returning to Nigeria.
After working in organisations, such as the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation (WNBC)/ Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service (WNBS) in Ibadan, Adebowale Electrical Industry, Maiden Electronics and the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), the late Mrs. Ponnle and her husband later started MicCom, which is an acronym of Michael and Comfort, a combination of the first names of the co-founders. The late Mrs. Ponnle is survived by her husband, five children and twelve grand children.
