No fewer than 3,500 smallholder farmers in Kwara state have been provided with 50kg fertilisers and water pumps to improve yields. The beneficiaries cut across the four local government areas in Kwara Central senatorial district. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Production Services and Rural Development, Senator Saliu Mustapha, flagged…
Book: Paragon of Virtue: Diary of Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe at 60
Authors: Olalekan Adewumi & Akinyemi Adeolu
Publishers: Matrix Publications & Global Resources Ltd.
RA 15, Adekunle Fajuyi Housing Estate, Ilawe Road, Ado-Ekiti
Pages: 285
Year of Publication: 2020
It was Karl Marx that once said, that people make their history, but they do not choose the conditions or the circumstances.
That was a statement that readily came to my mind, as I read this new biographic study of Doctor Ibrahim Oloriegbe.
Full disclosure is an imperative in a situation like this. Ibrahim is my friend. And I am one of those that think, that he should have entered Senate, since 2011. I still believe that he won the race eleven years ago, but became the victim of the electoral heist that was regularly visited on the people of Kwara State, especially, from the 2011 elections.