Adelaja Adenuga Foundation to hold end of year fun fair for Abigi community

By Ifeanyi Eduzor
The management team of the Adelaja Adenuga Foundation (AAF), a community based non governmental organization saddled with numerous community development programmes and projects have made arrangements to support the indigenous people of Abigi and environs of Ijebu Waterside, Ogun State with medical tests such as eye tests, vision screening, presentation of free medical glasses, free drugs on malaria, high blood pressure, cough and so on alongside end of the year gifts of food materials to the elderly in the community.
As part of the program, the teeming populace of Ijebu Waterside would also be sensitized during the one day End of the year community empowerment program on the need to promote the cultural heritage of the Ijebu Waterside and ijebus generally, foster and promote unity, good relationship among the community members; use the gathering to campaign against drug use/abuse, cultism, indecent dressing and all forms of social vices among secondary school students and youths at the community level as welk as encourage peaceful coexistence, mutual understanding and harmonious living in the community, all in an effort to empower the youths and community members so as to make them responsible and useful citizens of the community and the country at large.
There will also be debates in ijebu dialect for the secondary school kids, Other programs lined up to make the end of the year community program rich and lively are lecture on: ‘’Consequences of substance abuse: Its impacts on Nation Building’’ by a Director from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the Federal law enforcement agency in Nigeria under the Federal Ministry of Justice charged with eliminating the growing, processing, manufacturing, selling, exporting, and trafficking of hard drugs. There will also be questions and answers on Ijebu origin, foods, arts and culture, standard of living, dresses, ways of life and so on and to crown it all, there will be gifts for the elderly people at this end of the year program among funfair and refreshments.
His Royal Majesty Oba Olusegun O. Ogunye the Ojotumoro of Abigi kingdom would be hosting the timely event. Dignitaries that have been invited to grace the occasion are Rt. Hon. Dr. Tokunbo Oshin as the event Chairman; Pharm. Hajia Modupeola Omonike Bankole, wife of the Ogun State Commissioner of Police and Rt. Hon Akeem Balogun Agbolade, Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly as Distinguished Guests of Honour; Invited Special Guests of honour are: Dr. Adetayo Ganiyu Obafemi, Regional IT Head at the Nestle Central & West Africa with his office in Ghana; Dr. Jimson Olufuye, Chairman, Kontemporary Konsulting Ltd who also is the Chairman, Advisory Council Africa ICT Alliance (AFICTA), Abuja; Apostle Adetayo Pekun Adelaja based in United Kingdom while the Guests of Honour would be Mr. Sodipo Rotimi Samuel the Head of the logistic section at the Telios Development Ltd and Dr. Bola Adekola, the Registrar Federal University of Agric, Abeokuta.