Chairman, House @WorksCommittee. Aare Onibon Olubadan of Ibadanland. Best Selling Author, How To Sell To Nigerians. Founder, @NairaBET and @IbadanUnited
Introducing My Football Club, Ibadan United FC.
I’ve always loved the game of football. As you all know, I’m a die-hard fan of Shooting Stars, a club I have supported for over 40 years, right from when I was a kid.
It’s a club I even sponsored for a few years at one point.
However, I’ve always wanted to own my own football club. But I didn’t want to have a club in Ibadan that would play against Shooting Stars.
About five years ago, my friend, @biolakazeem and I came up with the idea of establishing one in Lekki, Lagos, where I have a home and where the head office of my businesses is located.
So, we formed Lekki United and competed in the NLO, the third tier of the Nigerian football league.
After about two years, European scouts started noticing some of our players and began approaching us about collaborations which includes taking them abroad.
That was when it dawned on me.
My people in Egbeda/Ona-Ara Federal Constituency, my people in Ibadan, and indeed Oyo State in general, should be the ones benefiting from this opportunity.
That was when I decided to rebrand the club and move it to Ibadan.
The issue of playing against Shooting Stars should not be a problem. In fact, we can even help Shooting Stars. The club can serve as a pipeline for talent to the Oluyole Warriors and to clubs abroad. More importantly, it is a pathway to help talented footballers in my constituency and across Oyo State realise their dreams.
So, here we are.
Ibadan United Football Club is here. We play in the 3rd Tier of Nigerian Football, the NLO
We will make history together.
Akin Alabi
Hon. Akin Alabi
Egbeda/Ona-Ara Federal Constituency
Ajia Olubadan of Ibadanland
The President could vex and write off the student loans tomorrow. The appreciation from students, especially across Northern Nigeria, has been remarkable and well deserved.
Thank you, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for signing the Student Loan Act into law.
Thank you, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, for championing the Student Loan Bill.
Thank you, Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS), for serving as one of the major financiers of the scheme.
Millions of Nigerian students now have a pathway to higher education because of this collective effort.
Over the weekend, I attended the 2nd Year Anniversary of the Egbeda Big Men’s Progressive Club. The club is a non-governmental organisation committed to the development of Egbeda Local Government.
I commended its members for their dedication to community service and we also had fruitful discussions on how I can support and strengthen their activities for the benefit of our people.
Hon Akin Alabi
Aare Onibon Olubadan of Ibadanland
Earlier today at the residence of Sen Sharafadeen Alli, our party’s gubernatorial candidate in Oyo State. Proper grassroots man. We are focused. We are strategic. We are determined. Ariwo ko ni music.
“Governor Seyi Makinde has left me with no choice than to publicly clear my name. I demand a rebuttal and public apology from Governor Seyi Makinde within 7 days otherwise I’d be left with no choice than to go to court”.~ Prince Clement Adesuyi Haastrup, Chairman ENL Consortium
We had a fruitful reconciliatory and strategic meeting about Egbeda Local Government at the residence of Senator Sharafadeen Alli, PhD.
Hon. Billy Ogundele, Baale Ajenikoko, Baba Yokele Pekun, Hon. Debo Amoo, Hon Dauda were some of the leaders present. It was all about unity, reconciliation and working together.
We are strategic. We are determined.
Ariwo ko ni music.
Oloye, I pray that you will fall victim.
This Kayamata bead is working perfectly for the people that believe in it.
The demand is so high among married women than even single ladies.
“This is how they snatched brother Gero from his wife “ hmmmm