President Ahmed Tinubu has granted Awujale's School of Governance the status of a campus in the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Plateau state.
Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun, made the disclosure at the 90th birthday and 64th coronation anniversary thanksgiving of the Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, held at the Cathedral Church of Our Saviour, Ita-Olowajoda-Ijasi, Ijebu-Ode on Sunday.
The governor said “facilitate the training of high-ranking government officials, efforts are in top gear to affiliate the Oba Sikiru Adetona College of Governance with the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos.”
He said Permanent Secretaries from the State would be the first to enroll, so as to enable them to benefit from the college, which is the brainchild of the Awujale.
“I have further made a case to President Tinubu to allow Baba’s School of Governance to become a campus of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, a request that he has graciously approved,” he stated.
Abiodun described Oba Adetona as a living legend and a phenomenon whose reign has been a monumental success and a pride to the entire Ijebuland and the state at large.
According to the governor, the monarch represented the beauty and candor of the ancestral heritage of the Ijebu people, emphasizing that his passion for governance and accessible commitment to education led him to institute the Oba Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair in Governance at the Department of Political Science, Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye.
“He also championed the Ijebu Development Board on poverty eradication that has become a model in the entire country,” Abiodun noted.
