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A Patriot At 84: Bisi Akande And Educational Development Of Ila-Orangun – By Oyeniyi Akande
INTRODUCTION As part of the ceremonies to mark his 84th birthday on 16th January, 2023, perhaps it is not out of place to trace a short account of the documented contributions of Chief Bisi Akande to the emergence of public secondary and post-secondary schools in Ila-Orangun and its environs so far. 2. By March 31, 2021, there were about forty (40) public and private secondary schools in Ila-Orangun alone [1]. How many people know or still remember that it wasn’t like that some 50 years ago, say, in 1973–even up to 1979? Do we recall that there was no single private school–primary or secondary– at all and that Ila and its…
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BISI AKANDE IN THE HISTORY OF ILA-ORANGUN: Reminiscences on the 80th Birthday of Chief Adebisi Akande, By Oyeniyi Akande
INTRODUCTION To God be the glory for sparing Chief Adebisi Bamdele Akande’s life and for making his life full of achievements we are all very proud of. He is a different thing to different people, but everyone admits that he has been a source of blessing to this generation in many ways. He is a man of very humble beginning, rising by his bootstraps to have a successful career as an accountant/computer executive with British Petroleum in the oil marketing industry; a councillor in his local government area; a member of the Constituent Assembly that wrote Nigeria’s Constitution(1979) which transformed the country to the Presidential system of government; Secretary to…
