Former UNILORIN SU Vice President, Anifowoshe Titilope Establishes 'Eagles foundation'
Eagle’s Foundation: A
Unilorin Student’s Stroke of Genius.
As with activism and the gumption to
galvanize people to be gallant go-getters, a young lady has emerged with a
gamut of selfless goals to champion the cause of Kwarans. In a state where
philanthropy and activism were often the exclusive terrain of the privileged
few, comes the incredible story of a renowned activist who envisaged
that most students’ attitude to skill acquisition and creativity were
quite ambivalent and disheartening—
Anifowoshe Titilope, a 500 level Law student
of the University of Ilorin decides to refrain from merely observing the
society with a blurry quasi-idealist telescope. Mindful of
the challenges ahead, she established the Legal Eagle’s Foundation
with the primary motive to encourage students to desist from viewing
themselves as nothing but academic draftees who mustn’t browse beyond dictated
curriculum.
On the 18th Day of March,
2015, under the aegis of University of Ilorin SUG, Titilope made a stroke
of genius by considering it imperative to invite women of substance in
business, politics, academics and even the entertainment industry to interact
with female students in Unilorin, on how to broaden their knowledge, get rid of
gender stereotypes, inferiority complex and hone their God-given skills.
The young activist succeeded in helping
participants to overcome self-deprecation, complacency, hang-ups, and
depression at the event which attracted over 70% of students from and outside
the university. The young activist is of the opinion that women should not be pigeonholed or relegated as the
weaker sex.
Titi's concern for females is not just
restricted to her course mates. In fact, she established the Legal Eagle
Foundation with the modest mission to serve "God and humanity." Today, many
students extol the contributions of the Legal EAGLE in broadening the circle of
liberty, validating and ennobling student unionism; and fortifying fellow
females against miscreants and misogynists.
Interact with anyone who knows
Anifowoshe Titilope and you will be stunned to realize that she is neither
hostile in the hostel nor callous in the classroom; almost everyone has a story
to tell about her affectionate manner. As a student, Titilope wouldn’t just sit
in the library to churn out highfaluting articles– she makes time out of her
busy schedule to exhort her mates to eschew truancy and acquire skills
for a life-long success.
One of the major goals of Legal Eagle
Foundation is to inspire students to transform their free periods into skill
honing moments and cross-fertilization of ideas among their peers.
Titilope has also decided to take the
initiative to her ancestral home, Igbonla, Irepodun LGA., Kwara State. with the
incoporation of Odusote Yetunde aka Legal Partot from Olabisi onabanjo university,
Joshua Ogundare aka Josh Drey from Moshood abiola university, Raji Shakirudeen
aka Bolaji Arab and a host of othet young men from different institutions in
Nigeria,
she who hopes to change the mindset of the students against
complacency. She also hopes to give the youths of Igbonla an open access to a
range of skills that can be useful in their chosen career. Legal Eagle
Foundation’s lofty initiativesare widely known; even the Eleju of Igbonla, Oba Olabisi
A.F. (Ph.d) had also given his blessing.
My only caveat is the name of Titilope’s
foundation– ‘Legal Eagle’ which
I thought unveils a shrouded tin-pot of an activist basking in ivory-towery euphoria; but, further
inquiry revealed that activist’s goals are genuinely ineffable, and she has
painstakingly mapped out plans on how to achieve her targeted goals.
It will however, be disingenuous on my part
as a writer to turn a blind eye to the activities of a student whose
colloquial expression is seldom spun without words such as ‘care’ and
‘liberty’.
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