Obafemi Awolowo, Yakubu Gowon’s Foundations Shaped My Philanthropy

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Obafemi Awolowo and General Yakubu Gowon’s human inclinations and administrative styles define His Royal Majesty&comma; Oba Adedokun Abolarin Aroyinkeye’s free education enterprise<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;traditional-rulers-appeal-to-buhari-to-review-border-closure&sol;">OpenLife<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that Chief Obafemi <strong>Awolowo<&sol;strong> and General Yakubu Gowon’s human inclination and administrative styles are the critical kernels that currently shape the free education enterprise of His Royal Majesty&comma; Oba Adedokun Abolarin Aroyinkeye<br &sol;>&NewLine;I&comma; The Orangun Of Oke-Ila Orangun&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The highly respected monarch is the proprietor of Abolarin College&comma; Oke-Ila Orangun in Osun State&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Abolarin College currently has 134 rural&comma; indigent students from all over Nigeria&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The monarch’s interest in the future well being of children is unequaled&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On several occasions&comma; the former senior legislative aide to former Senate President&comma; Senator Ayim Pius Ayim&comma; is not tired disclosing how Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s free education in the old Western Region and the administrative style of Yakubu Gowon define the essence of his free education&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;At the moment&comma; Abolarin College&comma; school runs in Oke-Ila&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">Osun State<&sol;a> on free tuition fee&comma; free hostel&comma; free-feeding including free internet and uniform&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Every child has access to free laptops and an uninterruptable power supply 24 hours daily&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;So passionate is Oba Abolarin about education that he takes time off his busy traditional schedules to lecture the students in Government and History&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However and interestingly so&comma; the uniqueness of Abolarin College is that the school is remarkably for the poor&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Only poor students are admitted into the school&period; Once it is discovered that the parents of a candidate are rich&comma; such a candidate will be denied admission&period; That is how passionate Oba Abolarin is about education&comma;” an Osun State indigene told OpenLife in an interview&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Continuing&comma; the Osun State indigene said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;oba-olufolarin-ogunsanwo-gets-staff-of-office-as-alara-of-ilara-in-epe&sol;"> Oba<&sol;a> believes so much in the future of the poor&period; He believes that a bright future should not only be for the children of the rich&period; The poor should be supported and motivated to have a bright future&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;With this free education enterprise of the Oba&comma; many children&comma; across Nigeria&comma; who were hitherto&comma; hawking wares on the streets&comma; are now learning in an atmosphere comparable to what obtains overseas&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Yesterday’s hopeless children now look into the future with the optimism of becoming doctors&comma; lawyers&comma; engineers&comma; technology experts&comma; pilots and of course Presidents and governors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;