Afrigather On Sunday twenty sixth March 2023, the Administration and Workers of Radio Lagos & Lagos Tv held the 14th version of Alhaji Kafaru Oluwole Tinubu Memorial Ramadan lecture which was held inside De Blue Roof, LTV premises in Ikeja, Lagos.
There have been a number of essential dignitaries on the occasion. They included the former Commissioner for Well being in Lagos State, Dr. Jide Idris, Hon. Justice Ibrahim Ishola Olohunibe, Chief Zikirullahi Alabi Macfoy, the Bashorun musulumi central mosque, Dr Nahimudeen Ekemode, the moderator of the occasion,Dr Musbau Juniad (fmr ) Senior lecturer within the Division of historical past on the College of Lagos, the Chairman of the event Alhaji Wahab Babatunde Dabiri ( Chairman of Academy Press Plc. and previous Chairman of the crescent bearer 1939).
The invited visitors embrace the Governor of Lagos state, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo- Olu, the Deputy Governor of Lagos state Dr. Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat, whereas the visitor lecturer was Dr Saheed Timehin, the top of Arabic unit, Division of International Languages on the Lagos State College. He gave a lecture on Governance and Social Justice: Islamic Views. There was additionally a second lecture delivered by Dr Ganiyat Tijani- Adenle, Senior lecturer, Lagos State College and she or he gave a lecture on The Societal impacts of cultural Imperialism on ethical decadence: Islamic alternate options and panacea.
There was an important younger man Hafiz Abdusalaam Noor ul Quran who recited from the holy Quran. The opening comment from the Chairman was an important one. Every visitor lecturer talked extensively on their distinguished matters they usually backed it up with totally different Quran verses.
The primary lecturer talked about residents that can see the unhealthy deeds of these in authorities however is not going to right them as a result of what they need to take from them. As an alternative of complaining about society to these in authorities,they’ll slightly complain about their very own issues. He additionally mentioned we must always inform fact to energy and do the best factor in accordance to the Islamic faith and at this era of fasting we must always make certain everybody governs his or her house proper as a result of the federal government began from a person, thereafter house, earlier than it will get to the group, subsequent to native authorities, then to the state and to the federal degree.
The second lecturer spoke extra concerning the societal impacts of cultural imperialism on ethical decadence. She mentioned the society has adopted the overseas tradition in a nasty means. She mentioned the adoption of overseas tradition has made our kids and youth sweep our personal tradition below the carpet, and this has led them astray in some ways. He urged dad and mom to watch out of the approach to life their youngsters stay. She mentioned we must always give our kids good coaching, don’t assume since you despatched your baby to the most costly faculty will make your baby be a greater individual, however it’s with good character and good behaviour. “Oju merin lo bi Omo, igba oju lo n to” Don’t go to high school as a result of a instructor beat your baby. Let’s do that collectively in order that our society of tomorrow and the way forward for our kids might be higher and ideal.
Who’s Late Alhaji Kafaru Oluwole Tinubu ?
President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu revealed rather a lot about him in October 2013.
In accordance with him, “Demise involves all of us. Since it’s the one factor we can not conquer, there isn’t any disgrace in loss of life.”
“The query then will not be whether or not we will cross on however how did we stay as much as that fateful second.”
“For too many individuals, loss of life stands out as the most exceptional facet of their lives. These folks did nothing good for anybody at any time besides themselves. They lived for the second and to fulfill solely their needs. Such persons are useless even earlier than Demise comes. They took extra from the world than they gave. Solely in loss of life do they serve the world by making room for others who hopefully are much less egocentric. As soon as such persons are interred, they’re rapidly forgotten for they did nothing good to recollect.”
“NOT SO WITH KAFARU OLUWOLE TINUBU. Although he has handed on, those that know nonetheless salute him. These lives he touched, he touched by doing good. And those that didn’t know, want that they had.”
“Demise doesn’t convey his life to an abrupt shut. His legacy shall endure as a result of the issues that he completed have a good time and honor the most effective of humanity. His service to mankind, to his society and its folks, proceed to stay on.
This man was a person of honor. Nobody can say any otherwise. He knew what it was to be proper and to do good. He knew the sacrifices that service to mankind entailed. He made the powerful selfless selections to do proper. He by no means took the straightforward means. All the time along with his eye on what is nice and proper, he walked the trail of justice and public service.”
“I’m not saying he was some distinctive superhuman. If he had been such, he would deserve no acknowledgment as a result of he would have been destined to superlative feats.
No, KAFARU OLUWOLE TINUBU was a human being, a mortal fabricated from flesh and blood, a person of flaws and particular person passions like the remainder of us. But, he determined he wouldn’t be regular. He selected to take heed to the higher passions and voices inside himself and never give up to the vices and ills of undue ambition and egocentric acquire. He selected to commit himself to a trigger a lot higher than himself. This makes him higher than a superhuman. It makes him a hero who had the braveness to beat his personal failings to be nice when it was a lot simpler and more cost effective to be in any other case.”
“He rose above self to create a greater society. The story of his public service profession reads like a guide of civic advantage and excessive objective. He walked the trail all of us would do nicely to comply with and emulate.”
“ALHAJI KAFARU OLUWOLE TINUBU was obsessed with Lagos State and her growth. He was obsessed with me and the standard of stewardship I rendered to the folks of Lagos. He deployed his sources {and professional} arsenal to safe and defend these two passions. At no time did I profit from his protecting arm of affection than through the days of the Battle when Gen. Abacha ran amock. I turned weak. A goal. He helped me and made the NADECO days bearable. He did all of this in an unobtrusive method. All by the turbulent interval he was a sea of calm and a relentless pillar of help. He was my sounding board for coverage selections particularly once I was governor. A troublesome buyer little doubt as he by no means took NO for a solution, marshaling superior arguments to win his case. To his credit score, he was perceptive and obsessive about about my political success and the event of Lagos.”
“He by no means shied away from any challenges however embraced each challenges and alternatives. He was a person who cherished to serve others. He was the longest-serving Nationwide President of the Anwar-ur-Islam and deployed huge goodwill and understanding in forging harmonious inter-faith relationships. He was passionate concerning the Tinubu clan. He was a rock of help, encouragement and motivation”.
“In the present day, we keep in mind a person who left behind a sustainable and enviable legacy. We have a good time a detribalized Nigerian. I dare say that had extra of these gamers been like Okay.O., Nigeria would have been higher off then and can be higher off now. Whereas we can not recast the previous we are able to form the long run. To form a greater future, we might do nicely to comply with the instance this man set earlier than us.”
“For he shall be remembered as a person of fact and devotion to the higher good. We glean from his instance the view of a greater humanity. In remembering him, we’re compelled to look past the quick horizon of our quick and private needs to a finer place the place our collective welfare and the hopes of the persons are paramount, protected and secured in opposition to formidable encroachment.”
“ALHAJI KAFARU OLUWOLE TINUBU’S life might have stopped however his instance compels us to maneuver ahead to a Nigeria higher than the one which now’s. The patriotism that drove males like Okay.O. to take a position their lives in making Nigeria work nearly appears quaint and misplaced in our current circumstance the place a succession of myopic leaders who’ve didn’t make Nigeria work for all however themselves.”
“What started as a dream within the days of Okay.O. has become night time mud. What was envisioned as a nation is now a contraption, a choir of contradictions and recriminations.”
“This isn’t what KAFARU OLUWOLE TINUBU lived for and it isn’t the legacy he has bequeathed us. He represented the nice that’s attainable on this nation. We should do honor to his life by dwelling as he lived. He would need us to attempt towards unity, justice, democracy, prosperity and peace. We should always do that not solely as a result of that is what he would need however as a result of that is good. It’s the solely approach to give life its higher that means.”.
“I shall miss KAFARU OLUWOLE TINUBU, popularly referred to as Okay.O. but additionally not miss him for his spirit is with me, encouraging me to forge forward. He’s considered one of my private heroes. He’s a hero as a result of he represented what is nice, respectable and correct about this nation I like a lot.”
“Allow us to use this sombre event to rededicate ourselves to constructing a brand new Nigeria. Nonetheless, this is not going to occur by mouthing completely happy words- It could possibly solely occur by emulating the lifetime of the person we honor and of the lives of others like him who of their locations of vocation, their properties and wherever they discovered themselves lived in response to a lofty objective and sought a better aim. Allow us to be like them and construct a greater Nigeria by being higher Nigerians. Allow us to do the best and principled factor. Allow us to stand for the premise that this nation is best than it’s previous and current. That this nation finds its true self sooner or later that we will start to create. Solely on this means, can we honor the life and legacy of ALHAJI KAFARU OLUWOLE TINUBU.”
Abiodun Olusola
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