Author: Deji Okegbile

THE GREAT REFORMERS CLUB (GRC), OSU @ 40, Reforming and Powering Osu Community: Osu Monarchical Nomenclature @ 90

The history and story of the Great Reformer Club, Osu, Osun State, Nigeria, a sociocultural association, is about a community development-minded and progressive school certificate and undergraduate Osu young characters. This year, 2024, is a momentous moment as we celebrate a massive milestone, reaching 40 years of personal reforming and corporate powering of Osu community. For the GRC, our charity began at home, and reforming was the first step toward self-reformation and empowerment. Self-reformation contributed to our enduring vitality for forty years, with all the members excelling not only as graduates, doctors, professors, executive chairpersons of companies, and military...

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OLUSOJI IKOTUN (1939-2024). A MODEL OF PROFESSIONAL TOWN PLANNER.

The profession of Town Planning is often marked by those individuals who employ their talent and resources to enable change and bring forth a vision for a better future. An example of such an individual was Pa Emmanuel Olusoji Ikotun, who began his career with bold gestures that captured the attention of the Town Planning world and changed paradigms. Pa Olusoji Ikotun worked more quietly, shifting the focus to the users of the space and asking themselves how they could best contribute to enriching the lives of those around them.  The passage of Pa Olusoji Ikotun is a loss...

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Raising Missional Youth: Power for advancing Mission in Intercultural Settings.

Methodist Youth Fellowship ARCHDIOCESE OF IBADAN 2024 Mission Conference Date: Saturday, November 2, 2024.  Venue: Griffin Memorial Methodist Church, Akeetan Oyo, Theme: Building a Missional Church I thank God for the opportunity extended to me to be part of the 2024 Methodist Youth Fellowship, Archdiocese of Ibadan, 2024 Mission Conference. The central theme of this Conference is “Building a Missional Church.” My session will focus on a sub-theme: “Mission in Intercultural Settings.” In reflection on the purpose of this Conference to encourage our youth in their faith walk with God to be raised as missional youth to advance God’s...

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BOOK REVIEW: Indigenised To Decolonize: Celebrating Nigerian Methodism by Hon. Justice E. O. Osinuga

  Preambular remarks: This is another topical, timely and appropriate book from the stable of   Bishop Deji Okegbile. This review is to give us a bird’s eye view of the salient contents of the book in just a few pages.  INTRODUCTION. Title of book: Indigenised To Decolonize: Celebrating Nigerian Methodism. The title of this precious book is, on the one hand, captivating, alluring and sufficient to be the fulcrum of a doctoral thesis at the graduate level.  On the other hand, it is sufficiently loaded to be the subject matter of a semester of three months in an evangelism course...

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GENERAL GOWON @90: Image of True Military, Nation’s Hero with Apostolic Leadership Character and Mandate.

General Yakubu Dan-Yumma “Jack” Gowon, a Nigeria former Head of State from 1966 to 1975, born on 19 October 1934 from a minority Ngas (Anga) ethnic group from Lur, Kanke Local Government Area of Plateau State, remains a model of a detribalised Nigerian and peace ambassador. General Gowon has sustained his excellent work for humanity through his NGO, the Yakubu Gowon Foundation. I aptly agreed with Prof Tunji Olaopa, the Federal Civil Service Commission Chairman, in describing General Yakubu Gowon at 90 as the nation’s eternal hero. God has graced General Gowon to be part of Nigeria’s story, engagingly, professionally,...

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