Oladele olashore biography for kids

Humanity matters. That was the central credo of Oba Oladele Olashore, the late Ajagbusin Ekun Iloko-Ijesha in Osun State. Not many people have heard of Iloko until Olashore moved to his native town and built the Olashore International School in 1994.

He wanted to make it an international institution and he brought teachers from all over the world. Soon, the school built a reputation across our shores and Nigerians in the diaspora gladly send their wards to attend this village school.

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Twenty-five years on, the school remain a lasting legacy institution to its founder, the inimitable Kabiyesi Olashore who died in 2012.

Yet that school came by accident and not by design. When I first met Baba Olashore, he was a top banker in Lagos becoming ultimately the Managing Director of IBWA and later the First Bank.

One day when I visited him in Iloko, he told me the story of the dramas that attended his last days at First Bank. He and another colleague had taken the