OLIVE SULOLA ADEJOBI
At 94, she is the pillar behind a movement, a man of many firsts who took the gospel across Nigeria to Europe and America born in Iporo-Ake in Abeokuta, Reverend Mother Olive Sulola Adejobi, wife of the late Primate Emmanuel Owoade Adeleke Adejobi, of the Church of the Lord (Aladura). Even in death, 30 years after, she is ardent of her husband’s calling, purposeful life, clarity of his prophetic declarations. With imprints of nostalgia,
she tells Emileo Castrol about her life’s episodes
Rverend Mother Olive Sulola Adejobi, a nonagenarian, was married to the second Primate of the Church of the Lord (Aladura), Adeleke Adejobi. On September 26, 1927, she was born in Iporo-Ake, Abeokuta, to a father who dealt in cocoa and palm kernel and a mother in the tie and dye business. She was fondly called Iya Alaaro. Young Sulola started primary school at Iporo-Ake Anglican Church School, then Ake Primary School, where Prof. Wole Soyinka’s father was the headmaster
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In this interview with Kunle Aderinokun and Chris Paul, Prince Adewale Taorid Ojora, former CEO, Lagos State Law Enforcement Training Institute, who is contesting in the coming Local government election in the state on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, explains how he will deliver on his promises and actualise his aspiration for the people
Who is Adewale Ojora?
I was born five decades ago, on the Island, into the Royal family of Chief, Prince Abdulazeez Ojora; then Olori Omo Oba of Lagos.
My mother, Alhaja Abiola Ojora, a descendant of the Gbajabiamila and Williams family of the Olowogbowo fame.