OPINION: Baraje: All hail the new Tafida of Ilorin! By Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode

Date: 2022-01-25

It’s no longer a news that Friday 18th February, 2022 will be for the turbaning ceremony of Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, CON, as the new Tafida of Ilorin Emirate following his appointment about a couple of months ago by His Royal Highness, Alhaji Ibrahim Zulu Gambari, CFR, the Emir of Ilorin.

Of everything that defines Alh. Kawu Baraje, he is first a teacher, there again, his outstanding career as an administrator and astute politician. Above all, a great philanthropist whose philanthropic gestures extensively cut across Ilorin, its environs and Nigeria at large.

Alh. Baraje is a thorough-bred Ilorin man and the second holder of the title, which became vacant last year, following the death of the first holder, Dr Yusuf Amuda Aluko, OFR (1935-2020). For this appointment, the Emir couldn’t have found a perfect man to fill in one the most revered titles in the Emirate first created by the 9th Emir of Ilorin, Shaykh Sulu Gambari.

The current chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Reconciliation and Engagement Committee in Kwara State, has spent most of his amazing career working in his country-home building and investing in different capacities; as it stands today, he is the first and only son of Ilorin Emirate, so far, who will emerge as the Chairman of a national ruling party, PDP, between 2011 and 2012.

To his credit, as someone who is committed to human capacity developments, he founded the Baraje Center for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Ilorin, a school with free tuition fee and transportation, for the advancement and widespread of islamic teachings and ideals; he is equally the Chairman Baraje foundation, the foundation that places students on different scholarship opportunities from undergraduate up to PhD levels both in western and arabic education and thus provides financial supports for the downtrodden.

The exemplary leadership and philanthropic spirit of Alhaji Baraje to the progress of Ilorin Emirate can't be looked over, considering the number of Ilorin indigenes who passed through him not only as a teacher, but also facilitated job and career progression beneficiaries.

By virtue of hardwork and diligence, Alhaji Baraje, CON, has casted a niche for himself as the only national honour awardee from among the eight recent appointees by the Emir of Ilorin. Like the title he holds, “Tafida”, an “important figure”, he has not only proven to be the son of the soil but a distinctive element in the soil. All hail the Tafida of Ilorin!

Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode is a member of Tafida Turbaning Committee

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Okin Biscuit     AbdulRahman Saad     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Niyi Osundare     Bello John Olanrewaju     Elekoyangan     Olatunji Bamgbola     Elewu     Sam Okaula     Abdulraufu Mustapha     NNPP     Kwara Hotel     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Oko     Laboratory-to-Product     Sunday Fagbemi     Mufutau Olatinwo     Baba-Isale     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Funmilayo Oniwa     Kumbi Titiloye     Omoniyi Ayinla     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Temi Kolawole     Haleeman Salman     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     National Information Technology Development Agency     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Adeleke Ogungbe     Zaratu Umar     Alimi     Rotimi Oyedepo     Shao     Kassim Babamale     Moro     Roheemat Hammed     Ojo Isekuse     Muhammadu Buhari     TESCOM 2025     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Oke-opin     Garba Idris Ajia     Salman Suleiman     Aliyu Salihu     Kolawole Bashirat     Bolaji Abdullahi     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Shuaibu Yaman     Awoye     Olatomiwa Williams     Saliu Mustapha     Kamaldeen Gambari     Abubakar Ndakene     Simon Sayomi     Ilorin Muslim Community     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Lucky Omoluwa     Mubarak Oladosu     Maryam A. Garuba     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Shururat Olatinwo     Sabo-Oke     Magaji Erubu     CCB     Igbaja     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Javed Khan     Olusola Saraki     Malete     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Jimoh Bashir     Suwa-Arabs     Kaosarah Adeyi     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Just Event Online     John Olajide Adedipe    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Baruba     Abubakar Imam     Ilorin Emirate     Kwara TV     Just Law Forum     General Hospital     Shettima     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Kulende     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Ibrahim Mohammed     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Omoniyi     Iyiola Oyedepo     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Toyosi Thomas     Face Masks     Imam Gambari     Oke-Oyi     Bayo Onimago     Coronavirus     Oba Abdulrahim     Tope Daramola     Ajasse-Ipo     Lanre Issa Onilu     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Adamu Attah     Age AbdulKareem     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Owode Market     Mohammed Abdulahi     Adaramaja     Binta Sulyman     Abubakar Baba     Kunle Suleiman     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     Village Alive Development Association     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     James Kolo     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Gurei     Kale Belgore     Moro     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Hassan Taiye Salam     Abraysports FC     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     ER-KANG     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Halimah Perogi     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Offa Descendants Union     Asa     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Mamman Saba Jibril     Abdulhakeem Amao     Musa Alhassan Buge     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Kwabes     Yusuf Abdulwahab     REO CAKES     Emmanuel Bello     Kola Olota     Abdulganiy Abimbola Abdussalam     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     JAAC     Apata Ajele Secondary School     BIR     Cassava Growers\' Association     Eruku     KWTV     Kwara State Polytechnic     Suleiman Mora Omar