"DO YOU KNOW THIS SCHOOL?
ABOLARIN COLLEGE IN OKE-ILA, OSUN STATE."
"NO school fees.
Free hostel.
Free food.
Free internet.
Free uniform.
Free laptop for every child.
24/7 Power supply.
ALL paid by the town’s king.
The king teaches too in the school.
We should celebrate such a nigerian! What makes this school remarkable is that one major criterion for getting in is being poor. If your parents are rich, you cannot get admission.
Unlike other schools,
Abolarin College wants poor kids who are very brilliant.
If you are poor but brilliant,
The king will admit you! The king believes poor brilliant kids should be also given an opportunity to become something in life- so that the future does not belong only to those born with silver spoons in their mouth.
The king himself has a law degree and masters in law- and he also teaches in the school. From what I gathered, the king has only one wife. He is not using the money of the kingdom to accumulate wives or properties.
He is investing it in education of future leaders while he aims to reduce the burden of illiteracy in society.
This is one man that fully has my respect. It doesn’t matter the religion. It is not about nepotism, neither is it restricted to Yoruba children nor children from Oke ila.
It is about any less privileged child anywhere who is willing to be educated.
That is why the only criterion for admission is poverty and brilliance. Many of those kids previously hawked pepper, sachet water, fruits etc.
Some came from farms where all they did was work under the hot sun weeding and planting. Many are orphans, hawkers, child labourers, delinquents, sons of petty traders.
But now they have hope.
And a future. Anyway I’m impressed with the king of Oke ila Orangun.
He doesn’t know me from anywhere.
And I’ve never met him either.
But I’m very inspired by his work, his initiative and by what he has done setting up a free standard school for poor brilliant students.
May God bless him.-copied"-A. Ayofe's post on X-platform (2024). Slightly Edited.
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