AS part of efforts to further the frontiers of the exploits of Chief Obafemi Awolowo as a pan-African thinker and politician of note, a non-governmental organisation propagating thesage’s social and political ideals, the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation (OAF), has launched a website.

The address of the website is: http://www.obafemiawolow-ofoundation.org.

It is designed by Living Projects Limited and sponsored by the Foundation, which has been generating ideas for those in government at all levels through an annual special dialogue now compiled in books as invaluable contribution to literature on national development.

The founding philosophy of Chief Awolowo as well as OAF’s mission/policy statement and Governing Council/Board of Trustees, books and famous quotes by the sage, pictorial records of the Foundation’s events and many more are prominent on the website.

Also featured is the novel Obafemi Awolowo Leadership Prize, which is awarded once in two years to a Nigerian within or outside the country who demonstrates excellence in leadership and good governance by making vital contributions to national development.

The maiden edition of the prestigious prize holds in March 2013 and will coincide with the 104th posthumous birthday of Chief Awolowo, a man still referred to as “the issue in Nigeria politics.”

Visitors to the website can download nomination forms for the coveted prize.

OAF is also through the website, collating information on the beneficiaries of Africa’s first free education programme successfully implemented by Chief Awolowo in 1955, with such beneficiaries required to submit their bio-data in a field created for that purpose on the site.

The Foundation also has a Facebook fans page, as well as Twitter and YouTube links to reach a wide audience across the globe.

Executive Secretary of the Foundation, Dr (Mrs) Olatokunbo Awolowo-Dosumu, while speaking on the motivation for the website, said: “It is the modern way to communicate with the rest of the world and it is the easiest way to make people know about Awo, especially the younger people, at the click of a button.”

Part of OAF’s mission statement is “to seek to advance the cause of North-South cooperation and the evolution of a more equitable global system.”

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Interesting
written by Busari Oladipupo Afolabi, July 07, 2012

This is interesting and i say well done job

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