Wednesday, 24 September 2014
A TRIBUTE TO LATE PA PROFESSOR ALBERT ADEREMI ADEDOYIN DATE: AUGUST 23, 2014
A
TRIBUTE TO LATE PA PROFESSOR ALBERT ADEREMI ADEDOYIN
DATE:
AUGUST 23, 2014
Our late Professor,
lying down there in his final home, was a humane, kind, appreciative, humorous,
humble man in his lifetime. He was a renowned scholar, an erudite, a parapsychologist
of no mean reputation. He related easily with all and sundry, both young and
old, both low and high. He was a father who really valued education and made
this trait of his character to manifest in the upbringing and education of his
two sons.
Some of us who had
direct contacts with him, when he was alive and active, know him as a very good
counselor. He would counsel you about life telling you how and why it is
essential to truly love your neigbhour
as yourself because that is the only and best way to be at peace with
everyone and to hav peace of mind individually, in a family, nationally and in
our global village. He hated hypocrisy and abhorred pretentious love.
He was a giver, he was
also generous and kind that out of his meager and low income, he would still
give to whoever came to him for financial assistance.
Our late Prof. was a
very friendly and humorous personality. If you sat with him in conversations or
on lighter mood dialogues, you would almost burst your lungs with laughter; your
frowned face with which you came to him would have dissolved into a wide smile
and laughter. He loved making everyone around him happy.
He was a very
appreciative person. If you rendered him any form of good service, he would
shower you with words and sentences full of appreciations. He was always
thankful, always grateful.
A typical, repetitive,
deep appreciation which our late Prof. told me most times when I sat discussing
with him is this, in Yoruba, “Landlord,
that is what he always called me) e ma ba mi dupe lowo Dupe ti o je ki n ni omo
laye. Opelope Dupe ti o fun mi ni omo Okunrin lanti-lanti meji, Tolu ati Wole.
Emi o le gbagbe Dupe lailai! Modupe O” And then he would heave a sign of
relief, showing satisfaction and deep appreciation. Therefore, Mummy Dupe I
have delivered this message to you, ma, to let you know how deeply and
sincerely the late Professor cherished you even to the end of his sojourn on
earth.
As an indefatigable
father, our late Professor devoted his entire life to educate his two sons. He
gave them sound education and moral instructions, that both of them, Tolu and
Wole are now living on. He taught them how to live a successful life; he taught
them the secrets of life, I hope and pray that you children will not deviate.
Professor Albert
Aderemi Adedoyin, a prince of Ijeshaland, lived on this planet earth as a human
being with flesh and blood. He must have had his frailties, his weaknesses of
character in living. No one is infallible. Every human being living now has his
and her strong and weak traits of character for there is none who is a paragon
of virtues.
Here, we commend you
our dear Prof. for your good deeds while you lived on this planet of learning
and of understanding.
We appreciate God for
your living. Indeed, you have come, you have seen, you have achieved and you
have conquered. And as you embark on your solitary journey, we pray that you
will receive eternal rest over there.
May your gentle soul
rest in perfect peace. Adieu to a Great Scholar. Farewell, Pa Albert Aderemi
Adedoyin.
“There
journeys our noble Prof.
After
he had had enough
Of
this mortal earth,
Quits,
on a lonely flight!
ADIEU
Written and delivered
by Mr. A.A. Sosanya
Saturday, 6 September 2014
OGINNI AND ALBERT ADEREMI ADEDOYIN FOUNDATION
OGINNI AND
ALBERT ADEREMI ADEDOYIN FOUNDATION
Giving
back to the community through knowledge
Enhancing
the community and lives of people through Christian Philosophy, arts and
information, communication and technology.
©August,
2014
Foundation’s Address:
No 13, Queen Elizabeth road, Opposite Group Medical
Mokola, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Foundation’s P.O. Box Address
P.O.Box 27348 Agodi Gate, Ibadan.
Contacts:
Tolulope Adedoyin Wole
Adedoyin
Director of
Programmes Secretary
08083150707 08072673852
INTRODUCTION
OGINNI AND ALBERT ADEREMI ADEDOYIN
FOUNDATION is an Ibadan based initiative founded to
commemorate and carry on the good legacies and works of the Late Pa Oginni
Adedoyin and the Late Prince Albert Aderemi Adedoyin.
The
need to create this foundation came after the demise of Prince Albert Aderemi
Adedoyin, (1938 – 2014) Author, Educationist, Politician, Literary Enthusiast,
Arts Lover, Photographer, Philosopher, Thinker, Religion Scholar and Business
Consultant.
The Foundation hopes to impact the community and the
lives of people through Christian philosophy, arts and computer education.
Our thematic
areas are: Drug Use and Abuse,
Child Trafficking, Girl Child Education, Reading Culture, Rural Education and
Empowerment, Women Empowerment, Health Advocacy, Arts Education, Christian Philosophy
and Metaphysics, Computer Education, Democracy and Good Governance etc.
MISSION
Committed
to enhancing the communities and lives of the masses through the combination of
arts and ICT Strategies.
VISION
Improving
all aspects of the quality of education and creating a conducive environment
for the mental, artistic, social, scientific and psychological development of
the masses.
OUR
AREAS OF INTEREST
·
Arts Education
·
Computer
Education
·
Good Governance
and Democracy
·
Christian
Education
·
Philosophy and
Metaphysics
·
HIV/AIDS, RENAL
and HEART Problems and other STDS
·
Poverty and
Hunger
·
Women
Empowerment
·
Gender Equality
·
Environmental
Sustainability
·
Child Mortality
·
Health
Education/Management
OUR SEVEN POINTS AGENDA
1.
Offering free
and voluntary computer training to motherless and orphanage homes and centers.
2.
Enhancing the
artistic and creative writing skills of the less privileged children by
organizing arts and creative writing workshops and classes.
3.
Organizing an
annual lecture series on Christian Philosophy and Metaphysics for the physical
and spiritual development of the public.
4.
Educating and
informing people on health related issues through posters and multimedia means.
5.
Rewarding,
awarding and recognizing those making impact in lives of other people.
6.
Distribution of
electronic books on Christian education, HIV/AIDS and other health related
issues, Christian Philosophy and Metaphysics, Democracy and Good Governance,
ICT, Creative Writing, Arts and Photography to libraries, religion
institutions, motherless and educational institutions.
7.
Donation of new
and used books to schools and libraries.
OUR
ANNUAL EVENTS
1. Oginni /Aderemi Adedoyin Annual Lecture on Christian
Philosophy and Metaphysics
2. Oginni /Aderemi
Adedoyin Painting Contest for teen artists between the ages of 6 and 15
3. Oginni /Aderemi Adedoyin Teen Authors Contest for
teen Writers between the ages of 6 and 15
4. Oginni /Aderemi Adedoyin Photography Award/Contest
for upcoming photographers between the ages of 10 and 18.
5. Oginni /Aderemi Adedoyin Reward, Award and
Recognition
OUR OTHER FOCUS
·
Civic Engagement
·
Youth
Development and Advocacy
·
Community
Development and Enhancement
·
Book Reading
Campaign
TARGETS OF THE FOUNDATION
·
Motherless Homes
·
Markets
·
Prisons
·
Health Centers
·
Educational
Institutions (Primary, Secondary and Tertiary)
·
Religion
Institutions
·
Politicians and
Political Parties etc.
SECTIONS
OF THE FOUNDATION
·
Administrative
Section
·
Wall Chart and
Poster Section
·
ICT Section
·
Library Section
·
Museum Section
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Still Consulting
UN MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
We
are also working towards achieving few goals of the UN Millennium Development
Goals:
Learn
these goals by heart and help score a goal for the bright future of our youth.
The
Millennium Development Goals are:
·
Eradicate
Extreme Poverty and Hunger
·
Achieve
Universal Primary Education
·
Promote Gender
Equality and Empower Women
·
Reduce Child
Mortality
·
Improve Maternal
Health
·
Combat HIV/AIDS,
Malaria, TB and other Diseases
·
Ensure
Environmental Sustainability
·
Develop a global
Partnership for development
THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATION FOR
ALL (EFA) GOALS
The Education For All (EFA) Goals are:
·
Expanding and
improving comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the
most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.
·
Ensuring that by
2015, all children in difficult circumstances, particularly girls and those
belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to and complete, free and
compulsory primary education of good quality.
·
Ensuring that
the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable
access to appropriate learning and life-skills programmes.
·
Achieving a 50
percent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women
and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults.
·
Eliminating
gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005 and achieving
gender equality in education by 2015 with a focus on ensuring girls’ full and
equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality.
·
Improving all
aspects of the quality of education and ensuring excellence of all so that
recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in
literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.
WE ARE ALSO COMMITTED TO OBSERVING
THE UN DAYS
UNITED NATIONS’ DAYS
January 1 World Day for Peace
4 Elimination of all forms of Racial
Discrimination
15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
February Black History Month in USA
1 World Day of Prayer
14 St. Valentine’s Day
March Women’s History Month in USA
8 International Women’s Day
21 International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination
22 World Water Day
23 World Meteorological Day
April 3
International Children’s Book Day
7 World Health Day
22 Earth Day
28 World Children’s Day
May 3 World Press Freedom Day
7 World Communication Day
8 Friends of the Earth, World Red Cross
Day
13 World Hypertension Day
25 AU (African Union) Established
27 Children’s Day (Nigeria)
29 Nigeria’s return to Civilian Rule
1999
June 4
International Day of the Innocent Child/Victim of Aggression UN
5 World Environmental Day
12 – Election 1993
16 Day of the African Child
26 International Day Against Drug Abuse
and Illicit Trafficking
26 Convention Against Torture and other
Cruel Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment CAT
July 1st Saturday of
July International Day of Cooperatives
7 London Bomb Blasts
11 World Population Day
August 1 World Breast Feeding Week
9 International Day of World’s
Indigenous People
September 2
Convention on the Rights of the Child
3 Convention on the Elimination of all
forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
6
International Day of Action for Women
8
International Literacy Day, World Rainforest Equality Movement
1986
11 World Wide Fund for Nature 1961,
Bombing of Twin Towers
16 International Day for the
Preservation of Ozone Layer
3rd Tuesday of September
International Day of Peace
Last Week in September – World Maritime
Week
October
1 International Day of the
older persons
1 Nigeria’s Independence Day 1960
2-1st Monday of September –
World Habitat Day
7 Universal Children’s Day
9 World Post Day
16 World Food Day
17 International Day for the Eradication
of Poverty
24 World Development Information Day,
United Nations Day
24-30 Disarmament Week
November
10 Execution of Kenule Saro
Wiwa and other Ogoni Activists 1995
20 African Industrial Day
21 World Television Day
29 International Day of Solidarity with
Palestinian People
December 1 World AIDS Day
2 International Day of Abolition of
Slavery
3 International Day of Disabled Persons
5
International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
8 International Day of Broadcasting for
Children
10 Human Right Day
26 Boxing Day, Tsunami Remembrance Day
29 International Day of Biological
Diversity
PARTNERS
I-Famous Concept and
Technologies (ICT)
Computer Guild of
Nigeria (CGN)
Society of Young
Nigerian Writers (SYNW)
Association of Nigerian
Christian Authors and Publishers (ANCAPS)
Conference of Young
Nigerian Democrats (CYND)
IBADAN BOOK CLUB
ALBERT ADEREMI ADEDOYIN TEEN AUTHORS CONTEST
(For Writers between the Ages of 6 and 18)
In Memory and Honour of the Late
PRINCE (PROF.) ALBERT ADEREMI ADEDOYIN (1938 – 2014) Author,
Educationist, Politician, Literary Enthusiast, Arts Lover, Photographer,
Philosopher, Thinker, Religion Scholar Business Consultant and our
first Patron.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
ARE YOU A TEEN AUTHORS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 6 AND 15?
- Poetry and short stories are allowed
- Author can write on anything
- Entrants must be between the ages of 6 and 15
- Any sign of plagiarism may disqualify an entrant
- Call for entry closes 1st of October, 2014
- Entrants should send the following information alongside their entries i. Name ii. Age iii. Gender iv. Location iv. Phone Number vi. Where you heard about the call for entries vii. Short profile about yourself.
- Send your entries to societyofyoungnigerianwriters.wordpress.com
BENEFITS
- Award of Certificate of Participation to individual participant
- Award of Certificate of Excellence to shortlisted entries
- Award of Certificates of Achievement to the three Winners
- And many other prizes for the first, second and third winners.
ALBERT ADEREMI ADEDOYIN PAINTING CONTEST
AZA ARTISTS AND WRITERS MOVEMENT
Call for Participation
ARE YOU A YOUNG PAINTER (ARTIST) BETWEEN THE AGES OF 6 AND 18?
OR A LOVER OF ARTWORKS
HERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO
PARTICIPATE IN
ALBERT ADEREMI ADEDOYIN PAINTING CONTEST
1st Edition
(For Painters between the Ages of 6 and 18)
In Memory and Honour of the Late
PRINCE (PROF.) ALBERT ADEREMI ADEDOYIN (1938 – 2014) Author,
Educationist, Politician, Literary Enthusiast, Arts Lover, Photographer,
Philosopher, Thinker, Religion Scholar and Business Consultant.
CONDITIONS FOR ENTRIES
- Participants are to submit 2 copies (photographs) of their works not later than 1st of October, 2014.
- Only Painting works are allowed.
- The theme of the competition is “Sadness”.
- Entries should be sent to: societyofyoungnigerianwriters@gmail.com or submit in person to: Mr. Gboye Abidoye or Mr. Busari Agbolade – c/o Arts and Craft Shop, Oyo State Council for Arts and Culture, Mokola Hill, Ibadan, Oyo State.
- Call for entry closes 1st of October, 2014.
- Entrants should send the following information alongside their entries i. Name ii. Age iii. Gender iii. Location iv. Phone Number v. Where you heard about the Call for entries vi. Short Profile about yourself.
- Award of Certificate of Participation to individual participant
- Award of Certificate of Excellence to shortlisted entries
- Award of Certificates of Achievement to the three Winners
- And many other prizes for the first, second and third winners.
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