The Oriire Youth Council is set to organise the maiden edition of her Secondary School Quiz Competition in two days time by 10:00am, Saturday 17th of February, 2024 at the LIE Office in Ikoyi-Ile, local government area headquarters.
The Public Relations Officer I & II of the council, Ajadi Isaac and Oluwasegun Ojo, on thursday in Ikoyi-Ile, said; “the quiz competition is one of the philanthropic initiatives of the council designed to inspire secondary school students and to provide guidance on how they can thrive as higher education students. You can reach out to us for enquiries on 09061667698 PRO I, 08069825878 PRO 2 and 07038327179 V.P 2.
Sarafadeen Aderemi, the National Chairman of the council said, the 2024 edition of the quiz competition will be the piloting version for activities of the newly inaugurated outfit. “We are expecting close to a hundred students from about 20 secondary schools across the about 620 towns and villages of the local government area, including the council headquarters, Ikoyi-Ile.”
Folasade Akanji, the Vice President II hinted that “To be fair and to accommodate every student, irrespective of their school or subject areas, the subjects we will be focusing on are English Language, mathematics, and current affairs. We firmly believe that this initiative will play a pivotal role in fostering intellectual growth and nurture a spirit of healthy competition among our young learners.”
Furthermore, the National Secretary of the council, Sanusi Olalekan explained further that; “The primary objective behind organising this quiz competition is to support more than 10 overall best candidates with 2024 JAMB Registration fees and to provide a platform for secondary school students to showcase their academic prowess, critical thinking abilities, and teamwork skills. Moreover, competitions of this nature offer students an opportunity to delve deeper into various subjects beyond their regular curriculum, thereby expanding their knowledge horizons and encouraging a thirst for learning.
There is no registration fee for the competition, all interested schools/candidates are required to come to the venue with either of their school ID cards/National ID cards/voters’ card or other tenable credentials relating them to the local government area.”
In a similar development, the vice Chairman I of the council, Temitayo Ogundare Lawrence also expatiated that: “among other four agenda we set for the year 2024 (Reduction in Unemployment, Education, Public Enlightenment campaigns, micro Community Development Projects and Sports) we are passionately going to drive youth development initiatives through massive education interventions moving on, a case study of the moribunded vocational training centre domiciling in the local government premises, we are coming to that very soon.”
Oriire Youth Council is actually a pro-elitic Youth group whose actors are frontline ex-Students’ Union leaders from different alma maters who had carefully identified the deplorable discrepancies in the education, socio-political development profile of Oriire and had created a common ground for likely minds across ethnic, religious and political divides deliberately, to take the menace heads-on and to see that the council area compete favourably with other local governments in the State and Nation at large.
The outfit is one of the brainchild of the member representing Oriire State constituency at the Oyo State Youth Parliament (2nd Assembly) – Joshua Ojo Akin popularly called J’Icon by his peers. The strategically-structured outfit was formed last year from his call for volunteers and nominations from the 10 serving councillors chaired by the nominee of the Executive Chairman of the local government – Hon. Michael Alabi Olateju.
According to J’Icon Ojo, the workforce became necessary to effectively service the peculiarity of Oriire having about 630 plus dispersed agrarian villages that spread over 2,116 km2 landmass and a population of 150,628 as at 2006 census and by projection to this year 2024 will be roughly over 260,000 population. Oriire is predominated by Yoruba of Ogbomoso, Ikoyi, Oyo and Ilorin origin, the sentimental demography which needs to be handled carefully to avoid crisis.
