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FROM WEALTH TO LEGACY: Why Nigerian Industrialists Must Invest in the Next Generation Now

   Human capital development is very important to the development and stability of every society. In the 21st century a nation's development plan shouldn't be entirely focused on the economic and political (Infrastructure,GDP, GNP) aspect alone but also, we must prioritise the people-investment in education, healthcare, skill acquisition and empowerment opportunities all contribute to growth, innovation and productivity in individuals.     This kind of human capital investment is vividly demonstrated in countries like America, where billionaires and entrepreneurs—often products of the nation's opportunities give back generously to society. Consider Bill Gates through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Warren Buffett (who has donated over $60 billion to support poverty alleviation and other causes), John and Laura Arnold, and Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which has committed billions to education innovation and health...
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HUMAN RIGHTS @ 75

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     On the early hours of 13th December 2023. I was at an  event organised by the Human Rights Center, and the Human Rights Clinic of the University of Lagos, to commemorate the 75th Universal Declaraton Human Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages. The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels (all contai...
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Monarch Improves Lives of Indigent Students

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The Orangun of Oke-Ila Oragun, Osun State, Oba Adedokun Abolarin is redefining qualitative education with the establishment of Abolarin College in the state, for brilliant but needy students, Abolarin shared with Funmi Ogundare his vision of grooming outstanding students. Already, students of the college are winning state and national awards in creativity Twenty-eight students of the Abolarin College, Oke Ila-Orangun, passed the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) as they all surpassed the cut-off score of 150 marks that JAMB stipulated for admission into tertiary institutions. While 15 students scored 200 and above, 12 of them scored between 180 and 199, while one person scored 165. The highest, Master Gabriel Micheal had a total score of 266 in his subject combination, while Master Sadiq Adebayo scored 165. It was the first public examination for which the students from the less privileged background would be sitting since the establishment of Abolarin ...
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THE ABOLARIN COLLEGE

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The Energetic Pencil Worker

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HorppyArt✔ This is  Odutokun Opeyemi Nasir_Deen popularly known as HorppyArt by the few people who appreciates his talent. He is a Grade 11 student of the prestigious Abolarin College, Oke Ila, a school strictly for the indigent and less privilege Nigerian students.His Talent was notice by his school proprietor HRM OBA ADEDOKUN OMONIYI ABOLARIN, AROYINKEYE 1 who handed him over to a close brother of his,who is also an artist, he owns the famous GENESIS GALLERY, Osogbo. after his good performance at the EXPO 2019 a talent display program organized by the Nigerian Television Authority [NTA] in Abuja late 2019. His special gift of making beautiful sketches and drawings is extra-ordinary as the lad has so far made beautiful pencils and paint works of great people around him such as the sketch of The State of Osun Governor, his school proprietor , The Ooni of Ife, Madam Reverend Esther Ajayi and many other great Nigerians. Here are some of his wonderful pencil works below ...
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