{"id":70592,"date":"2025-07-14T21:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70592"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:09:08","slug":"alumnus-donates-n20m-to-boost-entrepreneurship-at-josephs-secondary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/14\/alumnus-donates-n20m-to-boost-entrepreneurship-at-josephs-secondary\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Donates N20m to Boost Entrepreneurship at Joseph\u2019s Secondary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an inspiring full-circle moment, Oluwajimi Adebakin, a 1980 alumnus of Joseph\u2019s Secondary School, Agege, has donated N20 million to support entrepreneurship education at his alma mater.<\/p>\n<p>The donation, made through the Samuel Olatunji Adebakin Foundation in honour of his late father, was unveiled during the school\u2019s 2025 Founders\u2019 Day celebration at Lagos Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>Adebakin, who once struggled to gain admission into the school, shared his journey from a \u201cfailure\u201d to a successful accountant and logistics entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came here with my mother begging for admission. Today, I\u2019m the luckiest man on earth,\u201d he told attendees in a heartfelt keynote.<\/p>\n<p>The fund will revive the school\u2019s original vision as a commercial institution focused on innovation and self-reliance.<\/p>\n<p>Alumni President, Mrs. Toyin Ukana-Bisiriyu, described the gift as \u201ctransformative,\u201d saying it will empower students with entrepreneurial skills and practical support.<\/p>\n<p>The event also featured a lecture by Prof. Pius Adejoh of the University of Lagos, who emphasized the importance of networking and social capital in personal and professional success.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1962, Joseph\u2019s Secondary has produced many distinguished Nigerians, including former Lagos Deputy Governor Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, who was among the alumni honoured at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; In an inspiring full-circle moment, Oluwajimi Adebakin, a 1980 alumnus of Joseph\u2019s Secondary School, Agege, has donated N20 million to support entrepreneurship education at his alma mater. The donation, made through the Samuel Olatunji Adebakin Foundation in honour of his late father, was unveiled during the school\u2019s 2025 Founders\u2019 Day celebration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70594,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70592\/revisions\/70594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}