Skip to main content

Makinde, Ladoja, Adelabu, Others Pay Tribute To Late PUNCH Director |OGBOMOSO INFO|



Leading personalities across all walks of life have continued to extol the virtues of the late agronomist and director with PUNCH Nigeria Limited, Dr Lekan Are, who passed on at the University College Hospital, Ibadan on Saturday after a brief illness.

Ladoja said, “What will I say concerning Dr Lekan Are? He was there for everybody. I don’t know how he used to manage. Whenever anything happened to anybody he would find time to call and later visit you to give you a piece of advice.
“He was somebody that I grew up to know since I was six years. Three months ago, he called a meeting, I was there with him, the wife and his son, Damola. It was from 10am to 4pm. I didn’t know that would be the last; I didn’t know that it was meant to say farewell.”
Adelabu, who said Are’s departure was painful, described him as a father figure, saying, “he was close to my grandfather, the late Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu. Also, because of the Government College, Ibadan connection, he was very passionate about my old man. He always said that Adelabu was his mentor and that inspired him to attend to me.
“He was one of the great men that I grew up to know. He was very educated, hardworking and civilised. He was very strict and would not take nonsense. What endeared him to me was his patriotism and love for Ibadan, which is second to none. He was the president of the old students’ association of government college for about 20 years. He was the driving force behind the old boys’ association.”
Makinde wrote in the condolence register, “Papa, you came, you saw and you conquered in the field of humanities, education, journalism and hospitality.
“You had a benchmark for generations yet to come. You will be sorely missed. Good night, Papa.”
Folarin wrote, “You always thought very highly of me. Thank you and good night.”
Prof. Biyi Afonja, who described the late Dr Are as a fond friend of over five decades, said, “We”ll meet again at the feet of the Lord. Condolences, you will be sorely missed.”
Prof. Adekunle Akinyemi said the late industrialist had left a mark too difficult for anybody to surpass.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Akudaaya: Tinubu, Abacha and Shettima’s Theory of Ruthless Leadership | Festus Adedayo

  OPINION By Festus ADEDAYO In what seems to affirm that he wears controversies like apparel, vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Party (APC), Kashim Shettima, leapt into yet another at the twilight of last week. On Thursday at the 96th-anniversary celebration of the Yoruba Tennis Club in Ikoyi, Lagos state, Shettima was quoted to have said that Nigeria needed the “hospitality” of General Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s despotic military ruler; Nigeria’s own contribution to the list of infamous rulers who ruled the world with infernal ruthlessness. As the controversy over what he actually said raged, Shettima came out with a clarification: He actually said that in 2023, Nigeria needed a president who possessed “a dose of ruthlessness and taciturnity”. Nigerians have since been engaged in dissecting what lay atop the mind of a man who could be the country’s vice president. “We need a leader with a dose of ruthlessness and taciturnity of General Sani Abacha… Nice men do not ma...
Post a Comment
Read more

Oyo Speaker Meets Senate Leadership, Deliberates State Assembly, LG Autonomy |OGBOMOSO INFO|

The Speaker of the 9th Oyo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin met the Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan to deliberate issues around financial autonomy for States Assembly and local governments. The brief meeting which was held yesterday after a national legislative assignment in Abuja, it’s considered necessary to improve cooperation between the National Assembly (Nigerian Senate and House of Representatives) and the State legislative arm. According to Ogundoyin, the wide gap between the National and the State assembly needs to be bridged to ensure that the common interest of the people are genuinely and adequately represented. He noted that the local government and State Assembly are closer to the people, saying the financial autonomy is essential towards meeting grassroot needs and making the State lawmakers run their legislative duties without hindrances. He said, “The distinguished Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan is a stakeholder in the nation...
Post a Comment
Read more

LAUTECH: Solving One Problem But Creating Another |Adewuyi Adegbite

    By Adewuyi Adegbite The sole ownership of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso (LAUTECH) by Oyo State is a welcome development. Joint ownership of the institution by Oyo and Osun states has culminated into protracted crises in the institution, which has had telling effects on the students, the staff and its rating as the best state university in Nigeria as well as the relationship between the owner states. Thus, the taking over of the institution by the Oyo State Government is applauded by all and sundry as a pragmatic way of engendering peace. However, the report credited to the Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde that the institution would be run as a multi-campus is sad news for all Ogbomoso indigenes as well as lovers of justice. I wish to advise the Oyo State Government to reconsider the idea in the interest of peaceful coexistence among the various zones of the state, which is homogenous. Numerically and population-wise, Ogbomoso geo-political zo...
Post a Comment
Read more