The Vice-Chancellor, Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, Oyo, Professor Olanrewaju Olaniyan will today, Sunday, June 9, 2024 deliver the Annual Luncheon Lecture of the Government College, Ibadan, GCI, Old Boys Association, Ibadan branch.
The lecture, titled “Higher Education And The Future of Work in Nigeria: How Critical Is the Wheelbarrow Mindset” will hold at the Felicia Hall, Jogor Center, Liberty Road, Ibadan by 1p.m prompt.
The event, according to a release from the Media and Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, Oyo, Wale Adeoye quoting the Chief Host, Olawale Babalakin who is the National President, Government College Ibadan Old Boys Association “will be chaired by Professor Jide Owoeye, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Lead City University, Ibadan while the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Eniitan Ogunwusi, CFR will sit as the Royal Father of the Day”.
[…] Jogor is not simply a story about what a man has accumulated; it is a story about how a man has shaped himself. From a schoolboy nickname in 1975 to a recognised name in business and public life; from a confident student who believed he could excel to an engineer who walked into an office and asked for the partner; from football on the University of Ibadan campus to engineering, business and politics — his journey illustrates the transformative power of self-belief, discipline, courage and continuous reinvention. The “spare grass that shapes itself” is therefore not merely a metaphor. It captures the story of a man who appears to have understood early that life does not always hand us a finished script. Sometimes, we are the ones who must shape the grass. […]