*Baptist Academy located in Obanikoro, Lagos, is without doubt one of the oldest colleges in Nigeria based in 1855. A college this author attended and when the Baptist Academy Outdated College students Affiliation United Kingdom (BAOSA UK) launched into elevating funds to put in Smartboards in lecture rooms on the college, thus started a journey to attain the digitalization of the varsity’s School rooms and Laboratories.
BAOSA UK is a corporation set as much as unite former college students of Lagos Baptist Academy and to assist the varsity through numerous “giving again” initiatives. The primary focus is to repeatedly present bodily, monetary, and ethical assist to the scholars and the varsity’s senior management workforce. Baptist Academy is affiliated to the Nigerian Baptist Conference. It’s a sister college to Reagan Memorial Baptist Ladies’ Secondary College, Yaba Lagos therefore the involvement of actions collectively, residence and overseas. The varsity was established by the American Baptist Missionaries.
BAOSA UK‘s objective is to lift £25,000.00 kilos ($30,508.50 US {dollars}) in the direction of the digitalization of the varsity and buy interactive smartboards, projectors, and laptops for the lecture rooms. The evening of fundraising was a reunion evening for a lot of who dwell within the UK, who had not seen one another for years, and a few since college. It befell in Bromley Kent, England U.Ok. Outdated college students flew into the UK from Canada the US, Nigeria, and South Africa to call a number of nations, who graced the occasion evening.
Not even the rain on the day might mar the well-attended occasion. The keynote deal with was by an previous scholar himself Dr Yemi Onifade during which he mentioned…“Handy unto our youngsters a banner with out stain” encapsulates the profound aspiration to make sure that the values, traditions, and ideas we maintain expensive are handed right down to future generations of their purest and uncorrupted kind. Give Me an Egg and I’ll Give You a Hen: This carries profound classes about life, development, and potential. understanding the transformative energy of funding and nurturing, remembering that the true worth of a present lies not in its price ticket however within the constructive influence it has on our lives and the lives of others.” Particular point out to BAOSA UK girls, Toks Oderinde and Sade Demuren, and others whose position main as much as the Gala evening was pivotal in making the evening a profitable evening and consequence. It have to be mentioned that different college associations got here to assist BAOSA UK’s worthy trigger. BAOSA UK has as its president and Patron of the varsity, the indefatigable Dele Dada and Sam Areyenka as Vice President. October 28 2023 was an evening to recollect for BAOSA UK.
TAYO Fatunla whose work has been featured on MSN.com through EURweb.com is an award-winning British-Nigerian Comedian Artist, Editorial Cartoonist, Author, and Illustrator and is an artist of the African diaspora. He’s a graduate of the celebrated Kubert College, in New Jersey, US, and recipient of the 2018 ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award for his illustrated OUR ROOTS creation and collection – Well-known individuals in Black Historical past – He participated at UNESCO’s Cartooning In Africa discussion board held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the Cartooning International Discussion board in Paris, France and has held a digital OUR ROOTS cartoon workshop for SMITHSONIAN- Nationwide Museum of African Artwork, Washington D.C. His Fela Kuti picture is prominently featured in Burna Boy’s mega-Afrobeat hit track “Ye”. – https://www.instagram.com/tfatunla123
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