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OYO: Former Nigeria Ambassador, Ogunmola Dies @96

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A former Nigeria’s ambassador to Congo and some other East African countries between 1979-1983, Chief Moses Oyedele Ogunmola, is dead.

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He was one of the first graduates from the ancient town and was said to have single-handedly built the popular Ladigbolu Grammar School, Oyo. Since creation, only two buildings have been added by government to structures within the institution.

That feat earned him the Asiwaju of Oyo from Alaafin Siyanbola Ladigbolu and Otun of Oyo from Alaafin Lamidi Adeyemi III.

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He was said to have died on Sunday shortly after he was brought from Oyo into a private health facility in Ibadan.

As reported by OYOINSIGHT.COM, Wale Ogunmola, one of his sons and former chairman of Oyo West local government confirmed the development.

Recall that the deceased, who died who would have been 96 next year, was a chairman of the old Oyo local government as well as that of Western Nigeria Development Commission, WNDC (now Odu’a).

Credited for authoring some books on Oyo history, Aremo Adebayo Adeyemi, the elder brother of Alaafin Adeyemi III, who joined his ancestors last year, was his closest childhood friend before the former died.

Described by social commentator and his Akeetan-Baale kinsman, Adetayo Adekunle as a man of many parts who featured actively and played noteworthy roles in education, politics, religious, diplomacy, history, sociocultural, agricultural and hospitality sectors, he was undoubtedly one of the greatest persons ever produced by Oyo since the town berthed at its present location in the 1830s.

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