The library is a repository of information and knowledge. It's home to ideas and facts of the past, present and future.
Today, I was at Bayelsa State Library, named after our literary icon, Pa Gabriel Okara, where I interacted with its management and members of staff.
My Foundation will consider partnering with the Library to equip "an archive section" where facts and information about past and present leaders of the State, as well as all citizens who have distinguished themselves in their various fields, will be well documented.
-Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
Breaking: Yoruba Obas Forum Set To Dethrone Olugbo of Ugbo APRIL 30, 2019 If the threat from the Yoruba Obas Forum is anything to go by, Oba Akinruntan, the Olugbo of Ugbo will be dethroned any moment from now. My State News Observed. The richest Yoruba Monarch Oba Dr Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan, Olugbo of Ugbo has been accused of endorsing and crowned what he calls diaspora Obas among other things. The Monarch was said to have committed an aberration and he should be dethroned. In a release to the media, the forum after thorough deliberation stated: “Those who cannot be angry at evil lacks enthusiasm for good. And there is an age long Yoruba that says Agba kii wa loja ki ori omotuntun wo: The attention of the Yoruba Obas Forum being the umbrella body of over 200 Obas in the South West and North Central regions of Nigeria (comprising of Osun, Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo, Lagos Kogi, Kwara States of Nigeria) has been drawn to the recent illegal, unwarranted and unprecedented endorsement and
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