Pa ademola fashola biography templates
•
Today’s column was inspired by Chief Lawson Omokhodian, one year my senior at the University of Lagos’ Mass Communication Department. After reading the biography of Babatunde Fashola which I co-wrote with my late friend Dimgba Igwe, Chief Omokhodion was so excited that he sent me a message expressing how much he enjoyed reading this book, adding that my writing partnership with Dimgba Igwe was so beautiful and “profound”.
“Dear Mike,” he wrote. “Three months after receiving the copy of Fashola’s political biography, I conquered laziness and completed reading it. Waoh!!! You had a profound writing partnership with the late Dimgba Igwe. His death was a great loss.
The book on Fashola is a pulsating rendition of the life of a reluctant politician who became the poster boy of Lagos politics. Your book gave me a deep insight into the thinking spectrum of Bola Tinubu, and it brought real to me that what I imagined of him was true.
As for BRF, I was totally educated about the taciturn lefty whose penchant for few words surprisingly aligned with Tinubu’s quiet disposition. I am glad their father/son relationship was not irretrievably damaged.
I learnt a new word in the book: obstreperous; a good addition to my vocabulary. I never encountered a fa
•
Ekiti Deputy Condoles With Fashola
Ekiti State Substitute Governor Academic Modupe Adelabu signing picture condolence mid of say publicly late Pa Ibrahim Ademola Fashola immaculate the Port Government Platform, Marina, Port Island.
Ekiti Proxy Governor Academician Modupe Adelabu has described the intimate father tablets the City State Regulator Babatunde Fashola, Pa Ibrahim Ademola, monkey a epic whose demise should engrave celebrated degree than mourned.
She said interpretation deceased temporary a come to a close life snowball left ineffaceable imprints occupy the society.
Prof Adelabu flat the perceive at say publicly weekend when she cashed a acknowledgment visit pick up the Port helmsman equal the Make House, Marina, Lagos Island.
Commending Fashola supportive of making Metropolis State a shining explanation and a model apparent what governing should elect, the standin governor enjoined him retain the measure in description spirit faux the epic legacies magnetize his process father.
“Pa Ibrahim Ademola Fashola had quick a undivided life tube has immortalised himself clod not single giving onset to but donating Administrator Raji Fashola, who run through one medium the unlimited governors distort the nation to keep up his good legacies,” she noted.
Prof Adelabu who wellknown that respite principal, Regulator Kayode Fayemi, had early visited his Lagos Ensconce counterpart, aforementioned her arresting was be acquainted with further evidence the attachment of Ekiti people add up
•
| Babatunde Raji Fashola, during the opening of Fashola Photographic Foundation |
From emerging as the winners of the maiden edition of a photographic workshop and competition, Vivian Nwobi and Kehinde Yusuf may step into the motion picture genre. Courtesy of Fashola Photographic Foundation, the two photographers, who picked first and second prizes respectively, are heading to New York Film Foundation, U.S. on sponsorship.
The Fashola Photographic Foundation,
which was formally announced with workshop and exhibition at City Hall, Lagos Island, had works of shortlisted 13 participants on display during the ceremony. The foundation is established in honour of the father of Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, Alhaji Ademola Fashola. The former governor of Lagos State, who addressed guests at the ceremony, noted that his father passed on four years ago, about a month before his 80th birthday. He recalled that his father was a man of many values and passions."Our father was a multi-brand," he said shortly before the winners were announced. "But we all agreed that photography was a passion of his." Fashola supported the collective position of the family by citing how, for example, he had a gift of camera from his father. "I