Alhaji Raheem Adedoyin, a former commissioner for Information and Education in Kwara State and member of the International Press Institute’s (IPI) Executive Board, has been named the Teacher of the Month for the Raise Life Class membership programme.
Raise is a monthly life class on career, leadership, and entrepreneurship held by a high-achiever with Kwara State’s young impact makers.
The organisers of the event released a statement in Ilorin yesterday.
“It is also an initiative to deepen social cohesion and build a network of quality new generation leaders in the public and private sectors in the state and country,” said Mr. Ibraheem Abdullateef, Kwara Central Representative in the Nigerian Youth Parliament (NYP).
“We are very excited to announce Chief Raheem Adedoyin, media executive, accomplished politician, and decorated community leader, as the Teacher for the Raise life class May edition,” Abdullateef said.
According to the statement, Adedoyin is a champion of press vibrancy who has dedicated nearly four decades of his life to it.
“Adedoyin began his journalism career in 1985 at The Guardian, a stable renowned as the flagship of Nigeria’s intellectual journalism,” according to the statement. Reporter, Correspondent, Transport Editor, Acting News Editor, and Deputy Sunday Editor were some of his titles.
“He served as the Governor of Kwara State’s Commissioner for Information, Commissioner for Education, and Special Adviser, Communication Strategy.”
“Adedoyin is a prominent member of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), and the Nigerian Association of Journalists (NAJ).”
He has devoted much of his energy and organisational ingenuity to the International Press Institute (IPI).
“The Oloriewe of Oro Kingdom, Chairman of The Herald Newspapers’ Editorial Board and member of the Advisory Board of the London-based African Leadership Magazine, is a lecturer at the University of Ilorin’s Department of Mass Communication.”
“With such dazzling accomplishments in career and public service, we are very much convinced that young men and women will learn tremendously from his wealth of experience and knowledge, helping in grooming better and more responsible young men and women,” the statement continued.
Our society’s young people”
According to the statement, Raise, a youth development and mentorship life class, held three sessions with prominent male and female personalities from January to March, including Amb. Dr. Olufolake AbdulRazaq, the First Lady of Kwara State.
The programme was not held in April, according to Abdullateef, Executive Director of Torchbearers Impact Network (TIN), to save participants from exhaustion due to Ramadan fasting.
He expressed the organising team’s commitment to the project as it was.
It’s already having an effect.
“The program’s impact is being felt in the state.” In February, four of the six candidates we registered for the JAMB examination passed, qualifying them for higher education.
“We are very excited to expand our support for young people in education and business while also facilitating access to learning from the best in their chosen profession or business.”
“The ripple effects of the bridge we are building between generations in the coming years are impossible to predict.”
