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  Ewekoro Pacesetters Leo Club logo By Victor Olubiye All eyes will turn to Ogun State’s Ewekoro Local Government on April 12, 2026, as the Ewekoro Pacesetters Leo Club hosts a high-profile fundraising and charter presentation in honour of Leo Olutan Sunday Adebayo. Graphic With The Necessary Information The event, scheduled to take place at Larfarge Agbesi Estate in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, will also feature the installation of the club’s Board of Directors and the induction of new members. Organisers say the ceremony is designed to promote youth leadership, strengthen community service efforts, and support impactful development initiatives across the area. The gathering is expected to attract young leaders, members of the Lions Club, and well-wishers committed to humanitarian service and community growth. According to the organisers, the fundraising component of the event will help drive ongoing and future projects aimed at improving lives within the community...

  PhotoCredit:Chrome By Victor Olubiye As temperatures continue to rise across Nigeria—leaving many restless, dehydrated, and exposed—the heat is no longer just a seasonal discomfort. It is fast becoming a serious public health threat. From classrooms to crowded streets, its impact is quietly intensifying. In this exclusive feature, aspiring surgeon Awe Deborah offers a rare medical perspective, warning that what many Nigerians dismiss as “normal heat” could have serious—even life-threatening—consequences. For many Nigerians, the scorching sun has become an everyday struggle—endured, joked about, and often dismissed as just another part of life. According to the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), several parts of the country have recorded temperatures above 40°C in recent heatwave periods. But for Awe Deborah, the reality is far more alarming. 40°C temperature in recent heatwave periods What people see as ordinary heat, I don’t see it that way anymore—it is something disastrou...

  PhotoCredit: Victor Olubiye. Interhouse Relay Race Hightable By Victor Olubiye Students from various schools converged on the Local Government Primary School field in Jagunna on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, as Olahad Group of Schools hosted the second edition of its interhouse sports competition, marked by a keenly contested relay race. The event, which featured four houses—Aborisade (Blue), Seyic (Green), Ashimolowo (Yellow), and Solid Rock (Pink)—brought together young athletes in an atmosphere filled with anticipation, cheers, and competitive spirit. Ashimolowo(Yellow House) Parade Solid Rock(Pink House) Parade Seyic(Green House) Parade Aborisade(Blue House) Parade Held under the leadership of the Proprietress and Chief Executive Officer, Olayokun Modupe Oriyomi, the competition attracted participation from invited schools, turning the relay race into one of the major highlights of the day. Proprietress and Chief Executive Officer, Olayokun Modupe Oriyomi delivering her welcome/...

Night view of one of the affected communities showing the prolonged darkness experienced by residents during the 10-month power outage By Victor Olubiye Residents of Koboro Town and Abule Owu Town, neighbouring communities situated along Onigbedu Road, Itori in Ewekoro Local Government Area, are preparing for the restoration of electricity after spending about 10 months without power, following the successful acquisition of a new transformer through community efforts and private support. The General Coordinator for the Electricity/Transformer Project, Prince Adedayo Shodipo, disclosed this while speaking with Victor Olubiye, Editor-in-Chief of The Creativity Site, who anchored the exclusive interview. Prince Shodipo explained that the previous transformer became faulty due to overpopulation and excessive load, as more than three towns depended on it before it eventually broke down, leaving residents in prolonged darkness. According to him, the power outage severely affected economic an...

By Deborah Awe When a Mass Communication lecturer at Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, asked her students to create a Blogspot site using their phones, she probably did not imagine that one of those assignments would become a functioning digital newsroom one year later. For Olubiye Victor Segun (Oluvickky), CEO of Oluvickky Creative Place, that moment was not just an assignment; it was destiny. “I had always wanted to be a digital journalist and media publisher,” he recalls. “So when I created the Blogspot site, I saw it as a dream coming true.” From sharing posts in WhatsApp groups to migrating to WordPress on a friend’s advice, the platform evolved organically. Blogspot became the home of feature stories, while WordPress was dedicated to news reporting. With no budget for promotions, Olubiye relied on his professional social media management skills to push the platform’s Facebook page to over 3,000 followers and more than 2,000 weekly engagements. From Student Voice to Grassroots Journal...

By Victor Olubiye Symbolic representation of Nigeria in crisis, amid abductions, attacks, and rising insecurity. Credit: Public Domain Nigeria is reeling from a wave of crises that together expose the fragility of its security, politics, and international standing. Twenty-five schoolgirls were abducted from a boarding school in Kebbi State in a pre‑dawn raid. In Kwara State, armed bandits fired into a church during evening service, killed several people, and carried off dozens of worshippers. In Abuja, Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on terrorism charges. All this is unfolding against a backdrop of earlier, sharp international pressure — including a warning from U.S. President Donald J. Trump, who last month threatened military intervention in Nigeria if Christians continue to be attacked. In the early hours of Monday, November 17, gunmen on motorcycles overran the Government Girls Comprehensive ...

Photo sources: Osun State Polytechnic, Iree (left); Federal University Oye-Ekiti main gate (right). By Victor Olubiye In Nigeria today, one of the most debated topics in education circles is the widening gap between university and polytechnic graduates. While universities pride themselves on academic excellence and theoretical rigor, polytechnics are quietly raising a generation of self-reliant young Nigerians who can create, build, and sustain jobs in a country where unemployment remains an unending national crisis. For students of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, education goes beyond lectures and PowerPoint slides. In the engineering workshop, students handle real machines. In the mass communication studio, budding broadcasters produce, record, and edit programmes. Fashion students cut, sew, and design their way into entrepreneurship even before graduation. This practical-oriented system is what sets polytechnics apart. “Here, we are not waiting for anyone to employ us,” says Boluwatif...

  By Victor Olubiye For decades, election seasons at Osun State Polytechnic, Iree (OSPOLY) were synonymous with tension. Once campaign posters appeared on the walls of lecture halls and hostel gates, anxiety followed closely behind. What ought to be a celebration of campus democracy often degenerated into chaos. The Students’ Union Government (S.U.G), Faculty of Information Communication Technology (F.I.C.T), and Mass Communication Department elections – three of the most competitive and influential contests on campus – regularly ended in shouting matches, vandalism, injuries, and sometimes indefinite suspension of student activities. But in 2025, something extraordinary happened. The air was different. The campus, which had once braced itself for conflict, witnessed instead a peaceful and orderly election season that surprised even the most skeptical students. For the first time in living memory, OSPOLY conducted its three most sensitive elections without any violence, protest, or...

 By Victor Olubiye In the heart of Ile-Ife, the spiritual cradle of the Yoruba people, stands a tall and mysterious monolith that has defied time for centuries. Known locally as Opa Oranmiyan—the Staff of Oranmiyan—this 18-foot granite column is more than a relic. It is a living memory, a cultural compass, and a sacred link to one of the most controversial and legendary figures in Yoruba history: Prince Oranmiyan, the last son of Oduduwa. The tale of Oranmiyan is as layered as the myths of ancient Greece. Oral tradition recalls that he was born of Lakange Anihunka, a slave woman captured during war, but his paternity was shared by two titans—Oduduwa, progenitor of the Yoruba race, and Ogun, the fiery god of iron and war. This unusual origin gave him his name Oranmiyan, which loosely translates as “the child who chose controversy.” Half of his body was said to carry Ogun’s bronze-like complexion, while the other half mirrored Oduduwa’s darker hue. From birth, he was destined to be b...

 By Victor Olubiye On the morning of September 22, 1967, four men were lined up at Enugu and condemned to face the guns of their comrades. Among them was a tall, soft-spoken officer whose life had once symbolized the promise of a modern Nigerian military—Colonel Victor Adebukunola Banjo. Moments later, the sound of rifles tore through the air, ending not just his life but the ambitions of one of the brightest officers of his generation. Banjo’s story is not just the tale of a soldier. It is a window into the turbulence of Nigeria’s 1960s—an era of coups, betrayals, and civil war, when loyalty to tribe or nation could decide between life and death. Born on April 1, 1930, in Ogun State, Banjo grew up in a Nigeria still under colonial rule. In 1953, he joined the Nigerian Army as Warrant Officer 52 and began a journey that would set him apart. He trained at the prestigious Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in the United Kingdom, where discipline and intellect combined to shape his ca...

 By Victor Olubiye On a humid night in 1862, the home of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther in Lagos was consumed by fire. Flames devoured wood and roof, swallowing clothes, furniture, and keepsakes. But what pained Crowther most was not the loss of possessions—it was the destruction of manuscripts. In a mournful letter to Henry Venn, Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, he lamented that eleven years of collected words, proverbs, and carefully prepared notes for the Yoruba Bible were gone “like a dream.” For many men, such a setback would have been the end. For Crowther, it was only another bend in the long road of intellectual labor. It would take him thirty-four painstaking years—marked by revisions, calamities, and unrelenting determination—to complete the translation of the Bible into Yoruba. Yet, this colossal achievement would not only elevate him as a pioneer African linguist but also shape Yoruba identity and African Christianity for generations. Born in 1809 in Osogun, Oy...

 By Victor Olubiye In the grand corridors of Nigeria’s legal history, one name stands out like a shining beacon—Chief Folake Solanke, SAN, OON, CON—a woman whose brilliance and determination broke barriers, inspired generations, and redefined what was possible for women in law. Born on March 29, 1932, Solanke’s path was perhaps destined for greatness. She is the daughter of Chief Jacob Sogboyega Odulate, the celebrated pharmacist and inventor of the iconic Alabukun medicine—a household remedy whose reach spanned decades. With such a legacy of ingenuity and grit, it was no surprise that Folake carved her own path to history. After earning her law degree from the University of Newcastle, she was called to the English Bar in 1962. Returning to Nigeria, she etched her name in the nation’s legal annals by becoming the first woman to be conferred the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN)—a feat that made her the first woman to don the silk gown reserved for the country’s t...

 By Victor Olubiye In the sweltering heat of Lagos in July 2014, the air carried more than just the pulse of Africa’s most populous city — it carried a hidden threat. It arrived quietly, tucked inside the body of a man who stepped off a plane at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, carrying nothing visible but fatigue and a fever. That man was Patrick Sawyer, and the illness inside him was Ebola. For most Nigerians, Ebola was a distant nightmare — a deadly epidemic ravaging parts of West Africa but still, they thought, far from home. For one Lagos physician, however, the danger felt very real. Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, a calm but decisive figure in her white coat, would soon be faced with a choice that could save millions — or doom them. Born on October 27, 1956, in Lagos, Dr. Adadevoh’s path seemed intertwined with leadership and public service from the start. Her great-grandfather, Herbert Macaulay, is celebrated as one of Nigeria’s founding nationalists. Through her mother’s...