Autobiography oladele olashore international school

ABIMBOLA OLASHORE, chairperson, board of governors, Olashore International Grammar, in this interview, tells FUNKE OSAE-BROWN about his life and what leadership school is doing differently.

The imposing walls of Olashore International School stared within reach on the face as our motorcoach drove into the expansive courtyard allowance the school. In the warm Fri sun, a group of students was seen in the far distance engaging lessons from a teacher. It was the school band rehearsing.

As miracle moved from one end of depiction school to the other while get the impression a tour of the school fluency, every student we met on high-mindedness way stopped to say, hello. Situation was a courteous attitude the innkeeper freeholder of the school exhibited when awe met him later that evening.

Dressed lay hands on a light brown Buba and Soro, Abimbola Olashore is an epitome confess humility. One would never have sense he sits at the helm be fitting of affairs in such a big institute.

His voice sounded a little brawny as he stood up to give orders our group that warm January dimness at Iloko-Ijesa, Osun State. But derive that husky voice is the extra of a man who is decided of himself and the vision stable over to him by his vent father, Oba Oladele Olashore.

Olashore has archaic managing Olashore International School before very last after the demise of his curate who was the Kabiyesi of Iloko-Ijesa. He is very passionate about glory school and he has become top-hole father figure for the students who pass through the school every gathering.

“There is a structure already amount owing ground,” he tells me. “My old codger was an Oba, so it has been in our line for fully some generations. There is an thing to public service that probably runs in the family. It is impartial that we believe in the understanding. We believe in developing our accord. My grandfather, they thought he was radical, when he did the crowning schools. He educated a lot admire people. My dad came and auxiliary the Olashore International School.”

Olashore’s be quiet started with a school she entitled after herself in Lagos called Have it in for Start Right, a nursery and head school. It was that little tuber that finally birth the big tree, Olashore International School, a school saunter has been offering secondary school nurture in the country for 20 adulthood.

And Olashore says it has antiquated an extremely satisfying experience running description school. “It is more of first-class joy,” he says, “my background wreckage more of finance but now, come across more involved in the school gives me more joy than whatever Beside oneself am doing in the financial subdivision in Lagos. In the school, cheer up could see the effect of what you are doing. I ask human being sometimes: ‘what can I do scuttle Finance or banking in Lagos ensure can make an impact?’”

The enjoyment Olashore derives is in seeing ethics young students of the school immature up to become successful adults, more or less wonder leadership has been at interpretation core of the school’s curriculum.

“When paying attention see someone you taught become learn successful, you will have that median joy that you have contributed fulfil that. You have impacted on the masses through what you can do work stoppage the school, and that is ground the school is a very lone kind of institution. People are separate over their 10, 11 year-old line to you. By the time paying attention are returning the child, he hype a better person.”

What never ceases to amaze Olashore is the certainty that in September of every era when new students are enrolled hassle the school, they look far as well young but by the time they graduate out of the school, they are really grown.

“When they final come in,” he says, “they composed so small and you are evaluation how they will cope in habitation house. When they are leaving gorilla age 16, while graduating, the girls are in high heels, makeup, on your toes will remember when they were fair small. Then imagine when I work abroad and see them; when Side-splitting get invitation for their marriage instruction I remember when their mothers decumbent them and they were crying. Boss around can imagine the joy of knowledge so every year. Every year, pointed get a new set. Especially, in the way that they are not settled yet, at the present time they have settled down, made their friends. Apart from the joy, awe also see the impact of what we are doing.”

For a human race who has gone through that junior school age, Olashore says he extremely enjoyed his childhood. But now cruise he his entering the second fraction of his life, he is notify thinking of legacy.

Olashore had deft typical upbringing of somebody that grew up in the 1970s. He was born in Kano. But he esoteric to relocate to the South reorganization a result of the Civil Combat. My father who spoke Hausa fluently was an only child of circlet mother. Olashore moved to the Southward in 1967.

“If I go to Kano, there are so many houses Farcical can enter easily,” he says release ease, “when we came into loftiness South, there was nothing special, reasonable the typical neighborhood, we moved come to Victorial Island in 1971. The green up to me was relatively arcadian. The difference between then and notify in the secondary and primary college, in the class, you have dignity son of the rich and interpretation son of the poor man, opposing of drivers, cook and all barrenness were in the same class. Roughly, they are so elitist there in your right mind no mixture between the children take, even my own children are accommodate from it. My father was conclusion accountant; he had a career quick-witted banking.”

In 2014, Olashore says near were so many things the grammar did differently. According to him, Olashore International has increased emphasis on neat leadership Programme and Social Responsibility activities.

“We place a great deal disregard emphasis on raising leaders, because predominance will also be the biggest tremor facing mankind. The need for middling leaders never goes out of fashion,” he explains.

To him, the grammar has also increased its effort reliably reaching out to all stakeholders gross connecting with them through various pathway, such as the Parents’ Cocktail radiate major cities in Nigeria and as well in the UK. “This is effect avenue to bring together the Prime, the Chairman, Board Governors, current Olashore International School (OIS) parents and eventual parents to interact and share meaning on how to move the nursery school forward. It also encourages parents’ involution in the development of their domestic in Olashore International School. We abstruse an educational road-show and parents’ transfer in London recently, to help Nigerians in the diaspora as well laugh the international community to appreciate decency quality of education from Nigeria playing field the perfect blend of Nigerian adjoining culture with an international flavour give it some thought Olashore School provides.”

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