Oyo Herald

It was a gathering of who is who in Oyo state APC over the weekend at the residence of Prince Kolawole Asasola has he holds the end of the year party.  From the Senator representing Oyo central senatorial district, Senator Teslim Folarin,  Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Niyi Akintola to party faithfuls from all the 11 local governments in Ibadan,  the Akobo residence of the  senatrial hopeful, Prince Kolawole Asasola was a behevee of activities.  In his welcome address, Prince Asasola thanked the people for associating with him and assured them that, the relationship shall produce a better future for the state.  He advised the people  not to loose hope in the country despite many challenges assuring them that things will be better very shortly.  Prince Kolawole Asasola, son of the late Olubadan Asanike   also used the occasion to commensurate with the people of Ibadan and Oyo State over the passing of His Imperial Majesty, Oba Soliu Adetunji, the Olubadan of Ibadan land who joined the Anc...

The maiden edition of Iyake festival, the celebration of wonders of Ado Awaye Hills, will holds between December 1st and 4th this year.  The four day program is put together by the Ado Awaye Tourism Heritage Development initiative under the leadership of His Royal Majesty, Oba Rev'd Olugbile Folakanmi, the Alado Of Ado Awaye. According to the press statement signed by the Chairman, Central Planning Committee of the festival,  Alhaji Alade  Bello, the program will kick start with a Bike Race from Ibadan to Ado Awaye and a four aside football competition on day one .  The second day tagged " Exploring the wonders of Ado Hills is an Uphill activities at the bank of the only supended lake in Africa and second in the world, Iyake lake.   Third day is a Fitness day,  Festival Discuss, Documentary and Games. There will also be vigil at the foot of Ado Hills where Gelede dancing troops from Ado Awaye  and Ijio will be entertaining people all night. The fourth day which is the grand fi...

My friend Ariyo has four children. It was tough; as would be expected for him to send the kids to school. In a school term, he usually have to cough out a minimum of N500, 000.00 (half amillion naira) because his children attended a 'mid-priced' school. Coughing out such amount every 3 months was killing my friend. He also have to pay house rent. My friend was perpetually in debt. He ran helter-skelter to make available the best he could through savings, goodwill assistance and difficult loans. Often times he was only able to pay a quarter or half of the half a million. His debt burdens mounted every 90 days. By the time he was owing nearly N2M in school fees, he finally came to his senses. He withdrew his first two children from the so-called private school and enrolled them in a public school! He told me in confidence that despite his 'huge' investments, his wards were only 'dragging by' academically as a result of poor quality of teaching, teaching staff and ...

As  Ghanians are planning big for the funeral of their departed leader John Jerry Rawlings a Ghanian Professor, Kwame Addo has written a book about the life and time of the late Hero and the book is expected to hit Nigerian market soon. The book 'CHANGES’ the Dawn of a Revolution, tells the story of Ghana’s June 4th 1979 revolution and the events directly related to it. It reveals an African uprising captured in ‘real time’ (1979) by Kwame Addo, an artist, as the continent continues to rediscover the true essence of its democracy; reminding us of the people’s power and their desire to survive in a free, just and accountable society. This insightful illustrated document is timely and informative after incubating for forty years. The A4 size, 34 pages comic format, cloaked in a captivating semi hard cover is available in English, French and Spanish. Professor Kwame Addo, a Visionary and great personality from Ghana has achieved so much at the international level. Some of his major ac...

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Following his deft and zeal for human all-round development especially, youths, Prince Kola Asanike, a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Oyo State, has established a vocational institute to train interested youths in various entrepreneurship skills in order to guarantee their financial independence for both immediate and long term cares. The institute, which according to Asanike, would be free of tuition fee in all subjects would commence candidate's admission and  enrollment in December to be followed by the  resumption of students in January. Asanike's message was contained in a goodwill statement sent to the Ayeyemi group in Ibadan Southeast local government area of Oyo State. Delivering the message on behalf of Asanike at the monthly general meeting of the group, the spokesman for the Asanike campaign organization, Mr. Sheriff Adedeji stressed that "the institute would commence academic activities in January 2021 with not less than four vocational subj...

The Polytechnic Ibadan Appoints Femi Olalere as Acting Advancement Officer  Ibadan, Nigeria. August 24, 2020. The management of The Polytechnic Ibadan, Oyo state, one of Nigeria’s foremost tertiary institutions, has announced the appointment of Mr. Femi Olalere as the Acting Advancement Officer of the great institution.  In  the appointment letter issued and signed by the Rector of the institution, Profesor K.A Adebiyi on August 1, 2020, the appointment  became effective August 1 2020 is expected to last till July 31, 2021.  With this development, Olalere will be responsible to the Rector for the day-to-day running of the Advancement Office of the institution.   In his role, he would also be saddled with the duty of teaming up with some  other members of the institution to assist in attracting grants, donations, endowments, scholarship  and goodwill that would further contribute to the  growth and development of the Institution.  Until his appointment, he was a lecturer in the Departme...