12th November, 2024
By Uchenna Eletuo
The Superintendent Pastor, Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC), Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Tuesday donated a 6KVA solar energy panel to the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos (UNILAG). Bakare, an alumnus of the faculty, also instituted ₦250, 000 endowment fund to the best graduating student of the faculty.
The gestures were in commemoration of the cleric’s 70th birthday anniversary.Bakare attained the age of 70 on Nov. 11.
The gestures, according to Bakare, also a politician, are to encourage learning in his alma mata.
The donation and the institution of the endowment fund were part of activities lined up for the week-long celebration, which commenced on Sunday with a thanksgiving service.
Bakare had presented his autobiography entitled “The Least But Definitely Not the Last”, on Monday at the CGCC Headquarters at Oregun, Ikeja.
Tuesday’s celebration at UNILAG was tagged “Let There be Light”.
At the event, Bakare said that he was proud to have passed through the law faculty.
According to him, the endowment fund will run for six years to encourage students to be hardworking.
He charged the students to be agents of change.
A former Dean, Faculty of Law, UNILAG, Prof. Bolodeku Ige, also charged the students to study well to be able to contribute their quotas to societal development.
The law lecturer thanked Bakare for the gestures, saying that it would impact the faculty positively.
The Pro-Chancellor of the Redeemers University and a former Vice-Chancellor of UNILAG, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, who is also the Chairman of the event, thanked Bakare for giving back to the university. (NAN)
