Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, will join the alumni of Ede Muslim Grammar School and other eminent Nigerians today, Monday, October 21, 2024, to kick-off several activities lined up to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the school.
Governor Adeleke is wearing two caps at the event-as an alumnus and a former national president of the alumni association of the school established in 1974.
In a release he issued on the epoch, Dr. Tunde Akanni, an Associate Professor of Journalism at the Lagos State University, LASU, and Chairman, Publicity Committee of the 50th Anniversary celebrations, said the anniversary will start with special prayers on Monday, 0ctober 21, 2024.
Commencing promptly at 10 o’clock in the morning within the school premises, the session will be attended by leading muslim clerics in the state, including the oldest Imam in the entire Osun State, who also doubles as the Chief Imam of Ansar ud Deen, Ede, Imam Dende Adekilekun.
“The prayer session is a particularly historic one because the same Imam Adekilekun was one of the founding fathers when the idea of establishing the school was conceptualized,” Akanni said in the release.
The Chairman of the Planning Committee of the anniversary, Alhaji Kola Alimi, in another statement, said that the commemoration of the school’s 50th anniversary is a primarily to “to thank Allah, appreciate the founders, the alumni, as well as the current set of students of the school.”
Alhaji Alimi, who is also the Managing Director of Osun State Investment Corporation, explained that the committee deemed it greatly appropriate to have a well sequenced line-up of programmes to commemorate the special anniversary to enable all categories of stakeholders participate to their satisfaction.
“It is just very important that we start the celebrations with the Founders Day Special Prayer before we embark on other components of the anniversary celebrations,” Alimi added.
He, therefore, enjoined everyone to spare good time for the special prayer day to make it a huge success.
