Professor Wole Soyinka: Familiarity Visit; The Children of the Isara Remo Born Nobel Laureate, Professor Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka Received a Warm Welcome Home at Isara Remo. Yesterday, 1st July 2024, The Odemo of Isara, Isara Developer Council, and other community stakeholders welcomed the children of the Akogun of Isara Chief Wole Soyinka, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka, and Barrister (Mrs.) Moremi Soyinka-Onijala to Isara ahead of the 90th birthday celebration of WS., the children deemed it necessary to pay homage at the root of their forbears in Isara the ancestral home of the Soyinkas. They want to reunite with their kids and folks at Isara and make themselves more visible in the scheme of things. Their father will be 90 years old on July 13, 2024, and they consider it imperative for them to be in touch with their root. Little did most people know that Professor Wole Soyinka was born in Isara where his father hailed from just because he has not been showing up du...
From the lens of Isara Remo OnlineTV, We bring to you the pictures and links to the live videos of how the event unfolded today in celebration of the 90th birthday celebration of the Isara Remo-born Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka. All thanks to the chairman of the occasion, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, the elders, and the Youths of Isara who graced the occasion. The event was transmitted live by Isara Remo OnlineTV for viewing and event follow-up by Isara Sons and daughters in the diaspora. Click on the links herein for the live videos; https://www.facebook.com/share/v/Y7miZ16SBVoNFm1k/ https://www.facebook.com/share/v/psP6aY2HUtfvb8jR/ https://www.facebook.com/share/v/v4bTLDTC6sCfVAmo/ At Isara Remo OnlineTV, we are Trendsetters, and be assured, that events, news, and updates from Isara and its environs are covered. Please like, share, and follow the page for updates from Isara Remo and its enviro...
IN MEMORY OF ODEMO SAMUEL ADETAYO AKISANYA, AFONLADE II ODEMO OF ISARA REMO (1941 - 1985) 126TH BIRTHDAY IN POSTHUMOUS - The attached video is 56 years old. When the palace of Great Saki Oba Samuel Akisanya, The late Odemo of Isara was razed down by an irate mob in 1968. - He was one of the great Nigerian Nationalists and that was his palace where the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo was a regular visitor. - Odemo Samuel Adetayo Akisanya was born in Isara on the 1st of August, 1898 (126 years ago today)... - HRH S.A Akisanya was a member of the Nigerian Youth Movement. Other members of the Movement which was at that time a quasi-political/pressure group were Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ernest Ikoli, Alvan Ikoku, Akinola Maja, H.O. Davies, Bode Thomas, Herbert Macaulay, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, etc. - He was a person very revered by his colleagues for his boldness, sequential presentation of facts, impeccable English, high intelligence quotient, and nonpareil political sagacit...
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