(GIST): At 75, Alaafin of Oyo jogs for 3 hours every week – Daughter

                                          

Sade, the first daughter of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi tells us about her life, her family and her father.

Read the Punch Newspapers excerpts below:

What was the experience of growing up in the palace?

Growing up in the palace was a combination of cultural and moral discipline, wrapped in extreme wealth. My father was a soldier, so he was firm and strict in the training of his children. He is from a wealthy family but he did not spoil us.

Every morning, we listened to the palace elders who told us the history of the Yoruba and its ancestors like Ifa, Sango, Ogun, Obatala and so on. We were awoken by the sound of drums and cultural rhymes. We were dressed in traditional attire with expensive beads lining our plaited hair. As the first daughter of the king, I always led the procession when it was time to present gifts to visitors in the palace. You cannot grow up in such an environment without being enshrined in Yoruba tradition.

How did Alaafin train his children?

My father is the head of the Oyo Kingdom and the administration of the empire takes place in the palace. There is nothing that goes on in the palace that does not get his approval.In those days, we enjoyed the presence of the Alaafin even though he was very busy. He is a wonderful father who played his roles in the development of his children. He still does it today. He created time to see us and he was always telling us to ensure that we strive to be successful in life irrespective of our wealthy background.

Was there a clash between western and traditional education in the palace?

(NEWS):Gov Ajimobi of Oyo State Pledges More Buses And Low-Cost Houses For Workers

Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Wednesday pledged to provide low-cost houses and more buses for workers in the state.

Ajimobi, who  made the pledge at the  Workers Day celebration in Ibadan, said the provision of more houses and buses  would ease the challenges facing workers.

“It takes a lot of courage for government to attend the workers day celebration  knowing fully that they were not compensated adequately for their works.

“We can stand here today because we have implemented some worker-friendly policies which we will continue to do with their support,’’ he said.

The governor said that his administration would not relent in the implementation of policies that would benefit workers in the state.

Ajimobi, however, appealed to workers to support the government in the transformation, repositioning and upliftment of the state.

He said his administration had entrenched into the system several programmes for the benefit of workers such as regular payment of salaries and allowances as well as  promotion and  life insurance policy.

Ajimobi said government  also organised training and capacity building seminars for the over 13,000 workers in the state as well as 100 percent review of  housing loans.

He added that  teachers,  whose promotion was pegged at  level 14, would now advance  to higher  levels through competency test.

The governor reiterated his administration’s commitment to demolition  of shanties and illegal structures, adding that deserving property owners would be compensated.

Earlier in his address, Mr Bashir Olanrewaju , the Chairman of the  Nigeria Labour Congress in  Oyo State, said  the role of  organised labour could not be over-emphasised.

Olanrewaju urged government to demonstrate absolute commitment to the fight against corruption.

He pledged the  unalloyed support of workers for the Ajimobi-led administration in the state. (NAN)

(LIFE): Husband Dies in auto crash after 13 years of childlessness

Tragedy has hit the Lagos State Government Civil Service, as it lost two of its principal officers to a road mishap over the weekend.

The accident, which occurred at the Ogere axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State, claimed the lives of a couple, Rotimi Olugbuyi and Toyin Olugbuyi, while they were returning to their Ogun State residence after attending a wedding ceremony in Ibadan, Oyo State on Saturday.

The couple, until their death, were staff of the Lagos State Civil Service.

DailyPost gathered that while the husband was a Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Ministry of Information attached to the Lagos State Scholarship Board, the wife was a Public Relations Officer attached to the Lagos State Judicial Service Commission.

According to an eyewitness account, their car, which was driven by Rotimi, had its tyre burst while on motion and skidded off to the other side of the road where a trailer, on a high speed and heading towards Ibadan, rammed into them, crushing the car and the occupants.

Their bodies which were reportedly crushed to pieces, have been taken to the Ogere office of the Federal Road Safety Corps, where their relatives were contacted.

The remains of the couple, who had been married for 13 years without a child, were buried amid tears at their Mowe residence on Sunday in the same
grave.

Colleagues from the Lagos State Government Secretariat, who were present during the burial, described the couple as very nice, loving, caring and dedicated.

A source, who pleaded anonymity, said Toyin was three months pregnant before the unfortunate incident