News Stardom Mgt salutes Dr Kolawole Ojo at 79

By Tomisin Monday, Owo.

The management and staff of News Stardom, an online news blog, has felicitated with the septuagenarian elder statesman, Dr Kolawole Ojo on  his 79th birthday anniversary.

The Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief of the organization, Comrade Gabriel Sunday Afolayan, stated in a tribute that this year’s celebration was a testimony of God’s divine grace to cross many huddles in spite of different challenges of life.

Afolayan, who described the foremost and distinguished medical doctor and historian as a trail blazer and fore runner, observed that his determination and  focus were parts of his many attributes that saw him to this lofty heights despite his modest background.

He added that his high profile achievement as a highly respected professional and community development enthusiast has remained an outstanding value, which stands him out among his contemporaries.

According to him, the Laity Patriarch Baba Ijo of Emmanuel Anglican Church and Bobagunwa of Igogo -Ekiti Kingdom, remains an enigmatic figure, a quintessential social crusader, who has not only written his name in gold but has stamped his indelible imprint on the hearts of many that have benefitted from his selfless service to humanity.

Dr Ojo is the author of the highly acclaimed “Compendium of Igogo Ekiti Kingdom”  which many reviwers have described as a legacy project for the  preservation of the history and heritage of Igogo Ekiti Kingdom, written in lucid prose of a novelist with the insightful precision of a journalist and the implacable, painstaking factual presentation of a researcher.

Among other community services and engagements, Dr Ojo is a member of Igógo Ekiti Patriotic Club and convener of Igógo EkitiThink Tank. He was instrumental to the siting a branch of former Peoples Bank of Nigeria in Igogo Ekiti, which transisted to become the Bank of Agriculture (BOA).

He was among the few great sons of Ekiti extraction honoured with the EkitiDayPeace Heros Award in 2023 alongside other dignitaries like the immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Feyemi, Aare Afe Babalola and others.