OYEDS LATEST: Fabunmi Battles OGS

Fabunmi Memorial High School, Okemesi-Ekiti and Okemesi Grammar School, Okemesi-Ekiti will on Saturday the 23nd of December battle for who to be crowned the Champion of the OYEDS Football tournament.

Okemesi Grammar School which qualified to play against Fabunmi Memorial High School in the Final match beat Okemesi Community High School 5-4 on penalty shoot out in their semifinals.

However, Fabunmi Memorial High School having the highest points in the group stage qualified for the final match  which will come up on the 23rd December, 2017 and will be playing against Okemesi Grammar School on the field of Okemesi Grammar School.

It was recently reported that Former Tell magazine Editor, Mr Dare Babarinsa and a don at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Professor Niyi Okunlola will deliver lectures at the Okemesi Youth Education and Development Summit coming up at the Okemesi Grammar School on December 24, 2017.

While Babarinsa will be talking on: "Leadership. Economic and Political Development in a Community: The Way Forward in Okemesi, Okunlola will be talking on: " Youth Empowerment and Enterpreurship Value Chain: Cade Studies for Okemesi "

Okemesi Youth and Economic Development Summit (OYEDS) is a lecture series initiated by the Federation of Okemesi Improvement Union (FOIU) to conceive ideas and programmes that will drive human and environmental development of Okemesi Community.

According to the publicity Committee, "FOIU envisions OYEDS as a tool that will position Okemesi as a united, committed and peaceful community that will become the economic hub of her environment and beyond through her energetic and dynamic youths.

"It is also our mission to create an enabling environment that makes her people co-exist peacefully for the actualization of best standard of Social, Economic and Political activities that attracts sustainable developments from individual indigenes/non indigenes from home and abroad", the committee said

After the programme the release said the following committees would be set up: Agriculture, Micro and Small enterprises development ((AMSED), Political and Economic awareness development (PEAD), Youth leadership, Employment and Empowerment initiative (YLE &EI), Education (IT & Nursing), Guidance and Cancelling (EGC), Social Services (Security, Ecology, Electricity & Banking), Project development and Networking (SSPD & N), Budget Monitoring & Evaluation (B,M&E)

The grand finale of this programme will take place at the hall of Okemesi Grammar School on the 24th of December, 2017