Gabriel Olowo gets excellence award from alma mater

L-R: Gabriel Olowo, President, Aviation Round Table (ART); Segun Desalu and Paul Lawal, former Executive Director, Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) Plc all of the Old Students Association of Comprehensive High School Ayetoro, Abeokuta at the 6oth anniversary and fund raising event of the school in Abeokuta, Ogun State, recently.

Gabriel Olowo, President of Aviation Round Table (ART), has been honoured with the Award of Excellence by the alma mater for his contributions towards the development of Comprehensive High School Ayetoro, Abeokuta in Ogun State.

Olowo who was part of the 1967 graduating set of the college, in his acceptance speech to mark the 60 years anniversary of the school, also promised to contribute to the N2 billion building projects that the Comprehensive High School Ayetoro Old Students’ Association (The COMPRONIANS) is embarking upon to further enhance development at the college.

Speaking on the award, Peter Adenihun, the President of the old students association, said that Olowo was recognised for the award due to his consistency in contributing to the development of the school.

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Adenihun said that as an old student, Olowo had been one of the good ambassadors the college could be proud of and has excelled in his chosen field as a private investor, stressing that the award would further spur him and others on to give more back to the school.

On the N2 billion fundraising, Adenihun explained that the alma mater wanted to renovate the conference centre, metal workshop, auto mechanic workshop, fine art studio, boys hostel and the 33 staff quarters, while plans are also on to construct new buildings for the college.

In his acceptance speech, Olowo expressed sadness over the dilapidated infrastructure at the college and challenged other alma mater to give back to the society through the college.

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.