The family of General Olu Bajowa has added a new feather to their cap.The delectable wife of The Jagunmolu of Ikale Land  recently in far away United Kingdom bagged an LLM degree.The venue  of the award, 02 peninsular square, North Green wish, London was full to capacity with family, friends and well wishers who had come to felicitate with Barr (Mrs) Princess. Oluyemi Bajowa.

 A year ago she journeyed to East London in United Kingdom in order to acquire more knowledge about her law career. She enrolled for a master programme in the University of East London.

The good news is that after a demanding and challenging academic session, she has graduated. On Thursday, 17^th of November 2011, the University graduated Barrister Mrs Bajowa and others that were successful in the LLM class.

No doubt, Barrister (Mrs) Yemi Bajowa has not only made the household of the Jagunmolu of Ikale Land proud but the entire Ikales in Diaspora. Coastalnews wishes her more success in her chosen career.

As part of his efforts to reach out to his people so as for them to enjoy more of the benefits of Ondo State government, the Chief Press Secretary to the state governor, Prince Eni Akinsola has recently dispensed some cash to 45 widows across Ayeka, Igbodigo, Okumo and Igodan wards.

The philanthropist also gave scholarship to 12 final year students who are indigenes of Igodan-Lisa Community in the name of Oba Paul Akinsola foundation.

The concerned widows all gathered at the premises of the palace of Olu of Igodan-Lisa to receive a token amount of money as succor in the beginning of the New Year 2012.

Speaking,  Prince Eni Akinsola explained that the programme of caring for the widows is the first of its kind in the community and that it is to prove to them that Mimiko’s administration is the type that listens to people’s yearnings.

Presenting envelopes of an undisclosed amount of money to each of the widows, Prince Akinsola charged them to continue praying for the success of the present administration in the state and Labour Party in general so as to further enjoy dividends of democracy.

He stressed that what informed his decision of taking such step was because widows have no husband to cater for them.

Speaking with   coastalnews, some of the widows, Mrs. Abigail Bobo, Mrs. Iyabo Bowale,  Mrs. Veronica Babalene amongst others on behalf of the entire widows appreciated the kind gestures and offered series of prayers for the benefactors.

Meanwhile, 12 final year students who are indigenes of Igodan-Lisa community also got scholarship from the magnanimous philanthropist from the stable of his father Oba Paul Akinsola foundation.

Prince Eni Akinsola said the best legacy one can give to the young ones is education.

On behalf of the foundation, he explained that the scholarship which would be on   a yearly basis, would be a sort of financial assistance to the students throughout their final year in school.

The students who benefitted from the gesture, Daniel Ayesammi, Dolapo Akinsola and others expressed their gratitude to prince Eni Akinsola who they described as an indefatigable patron of the federation of Igodan-Lisa students union.

They also thanked the Olu of Igodan-Lisa, Oba Paul Akinsola for his kindness towards their academic pursuit.

Igbotu is a town in Ese-odo Local Government Area of Ondo State, a component part of Apoi Kingdom and inhabited by Arogbos and Ijaws whose major occupation is fishing surrounded by towns like Sabomi, Oboro, as well as Igbekebo.

Kabiyesi likes reading and writing a lot. In fact, he is a publisher. He published Zenith Zion Award magazine and runs Zenith Group of Schools in his private capacity.

For his primary education, he attended Methodist Primary School, Igbotu between 1968 and 1973 and St. Brendan’s Secondary Modern School, Ajagba for his secondary education. He was also at Community Grammar School, Igbobini between 1978 and 1982.

In his quest for further academic qualification, Oba Adeniyi proceeded to Business Education College, Akure where he started honing his skill in business venture, little wonder his school Zenith Group of Schools is doing well both in academics and business aspect. His educational quest also led him to University of Ado-Ekiti between 1998 and 1999.

He holds several qualifications and certificates amongst which are: LCCI-Higher Group Diploma in Public Relations, Marketing and Selling/Sales Management (London), 1986; Institute of Personnel Management-Graduate Membership Chartered Personnel Management Certificate, 1994; Institute Personnel Management-Associate Membership Chartered, Personnel Management Certificate, 1994; Nigerian Institute of Public Relations-Graduate Membership Chartered Diploma in Public Relations, 1996; Nigeria Institute of Management-Graduate Membership Certificate in Management, 1995; Master’s Degree in Personnel Psychology, 1999. He is also proficient in Computer operation as he holds GCC-Computer Operation Certificate and GCC-Computer Desk-Top Publishing Certificate.

In his career, he worked as a Clerical officer at Ilaje/Ese-odo Local Government Council from 1983 to 1984 and was employed as Intelligent Officer, Presidency in 1984 where he served till 1993. Oba Adeniyi later became Managing Consultant to Zenith Management and PR Konsult in 1994, a job he has not relinquished even as he mounts the traditional stool of Igbotu.

The young traditional ruler also has several wards and titles in his kitty. He has been honoured by the Ubiversity of Ado Ekiti with the University Award for Excellence and was also made the Otunba-Toyese of Apoi Kingdom. He was Aare Mayegun of Mahin Kingdom and the Bobagunwa of Igbobini-Apoi land and also the Araba of Igbou before he was installed as the Gbaluwe.

Before becoming a traditional ruler e enjoys putting on knickers and jeans like every young man of his generation but now tradition doesn’t permit him anymore. As a traditional ruler he is expected to dress the way he wants the kingdom he rules to be addressed.

But one thing the stool has not taking from him is his old friends. He still maintains his relationship with them, in his words “I still maintain my old friends because I don’t want to alienate myself from them. As a young ruler, they still come around me to share memories and compare notes.”

In an interaction with the people of Igbotu, they are all happy with their king and full of praises for the appointment and traditional installation. They give kudos to the Governor of the State, DR. OlusegunMimiko for approving the process that finally gave them a popular king after ten years of vacant stool. The people of Igbotu also appeal to the Governor to give their king his Staff of Office after 8 months of his installation to enable hm move the town foreward, more so that there is no single petition or court action attached to the Chieftaincy of Oba Adeniyi.

His Royal Highness, Oba Ajayi Adeniyi was widely praised and credited by his subjects for vanishing the notorious problem of youth restiveness  from his kingdom since he ascended the stool of his forbears.

Facebook looks set to reach a billion members by August with accelerating growth in developing countries, according to digital-marketing firm  iCrossing.

Last year Facebook announced it had reached 800 million users, but growth has slowed or stopped in many of its early adopting countries such as the US and the UK, says Gregory Lyons, a research and insight manager at iCrossing.

“However, developing countries such as India and Brazil have shown strong growth with India growing from 22 million users to 36 million and Brazil going from 13 million to 30 million in the last 9 months,” he wrote in a blog post.

India and Brazil are both large countries with millions of potential users who have yet to sign up to Facebook, with only 3% of India’s population on Facebook and 16% of Brazil’s compared with 49% of the US and 47% of the UK.

Lyons says countries such as these will clearly contribute heavily to Facebook’s continued growth, and using a process of linear regression on the data from the end of 2008 onwards, Facebook should reach a billion active users around August 2012.

Rival social networking service Google+ has a lot of catching up to do, with unofficial estimates putting it membership at around 400 million by the end of the year.

Facebook, which makes money by selling advertising that reaches Facebook members, is considering raising about $10bn in an Initial Public Offering that would value the company at more than $100bn, according to Bloomberg.