NO school fees
Free hostel
Free food
Free internet
Free uniform
Free laptop for every child
24/7 Power supply
ALL paid by the town’s king.
The king teaches too in the school.
We should celebrate such a nigerian! What makes this school
remarkable is that one major criteria for getting in is being poor. If your
parents are rich, you cannot get admission.
Unlike other schools,
Abolarin College wants poor kids who are very brilliant.
If you are poor but brilliant,
The king will admit you! The king believes poor brilliant kids
should be also given an opportunity to become something in life- so that the
future does not belong only to those born with silver spoons in their mouth
The king himself has a law degree and masters in law- and he also
teaches in the school. From what I gathered, the king has only one wife. He is
not using the money of the kingdom to accumulate wives or properties.
He is investing it in education of future leaders while he aims to
reduce the burden of illiteracy in society
This is one man that fully has my respect. It doesn’t matter the
religion. It is not about nepotism, neither is it restricted to Yoruba children
nor children from Oke ila.
It is about any less privileged child anywhere who is willing to
be educated.
That is why the only criteria for admission is poverty and
brilliance. Many of those kids previously hawked pepper, sachet water, fruits
etc.
Some came from farms where all they did was work under the hot sun
weeding and planting. Many are orphans, hawkers, child labourers, delinquents,
sons of petty traders.
But now they have hope.
And a future. Anyway I’m impressed with the king of Oke ila Orangun.
He doesn’t know me from anywhere.
And I’ve never met him either.
But I’m very inspired by his work, his initiative and by what he
has done setting up a free standard school for poor brilliant students.
May God bless him.-copied
NB
I have made my findings and it's true
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