RISING STARS; INTERVIEW WITH TAIWO

 Our star of the week goes to Oluwapemiisin Akingbola.

She is a daughter of God.

A recent Graduate of Electrical/Electronic Engineering, University of Ibadan

A one time chair person of Women In Engineering, IEEE, University of Ibadan Student Branch

A one time President of Bowel of Mercy, a NGO that invests in the affairs of Children in 5 Orphanages (Private and Public) and Rehabilitation centers in the Ibadan Community.

One of the ten Representatives of Nigeria in the Huawei Seed for the future Internship, China.

Creative Director of a Gifting Business called Pearlz and Grace and a Designer.

A Children Bible Teacher

Taiwo: Who are you?

Oluwapemiisin Akingbola is a daughter of God

A recent Graduate of Electrical/Electronic Engineering, University of Ibadan

A one time chair person of Women In Engineering, IEEE, University of Ibadan Student Branch

A one time President of Bowel of Mercy, a NGO that invests in the affairs of Children in 5 Orphanages (Private and Public) and Rehabilitation centers in the Ibadan Community.

One of the ten Representatives of Nigeria in the Huawei Seed for the future Internship, China.

Creative Director of a Gifting Business called Pearlz and Grace and a Designer.

A Children Bible Teacher.

Taiwo: Where do you come from?

Pemi: I am from Ondo town in Ondo state.

Taiwo: What's your take on excellence?

Pemi: Excellence shows the full heart of an individual poured out into a certain field or subject.

Excellence should be strived for by all, no matter the role you find yourself in.

Taiwo: What is your passion?

Pemi: Making lives beautiful!

Taiwo: What is your purpose in life?

Pemi:To leave sustainable legacies wherever my feet tread

Taiwo: What is the most important thing to you in life?

Pemi: Hmmm... probably walking the talk

Taiwo: What can you say about leadership and self esteem?

Pemi: Every person has the potential to lead. Whether it is in a conversation or in the boardroom. 

The role of a front line leader is always to birth more leaders.

As regards self esteem, I believe you must understand the One who created you, to understand and appreciate what you have as individual.

Taiwo: YourMentor?

Pemi: My mentors are Caleb and Pelumi Dada. 

I also admire and learn from a couple of great people virtually like Heidi Baker and TY Bello to name a few

Taiwo: Your Hobbies?

Pemi: Playing around with designs,    basket ball (though I am working on being a pro pro lol), reading books

Taiwo: What is your Foresight of technology in Nigeria?

Pemi: There's a lot of consistent re-learning of mindsets that needs to continue to bring about a shift in Nigeria for proper digitalization of various sectors.

We always wait sometimes till push comes to the shove for us to embrace new technologies.

But I'm glad that I and many others are working to see that the digital divide becomes close to nothing in the coming years

Taiwo: My Role model:

Pemi: Christ

Taiwo: Who is Christ to you?

Pemi: My Saviour, Lover and Teacher

Taiwo: What is your favourite food, clothes and colour.

Pemi: Lol I like good food, these days biased towards food sprinkled with greens or various colours

I am your regular Tshirt, Jeans and Sneaks Lady

I generally love bright colours

Taiwo: What will  you like men to remember you for?

For being like Christ in attitude, word and action.

 Taiwo: A word for the youths?

Pemi: Be patient with the process God has called you to and enjoy life with those you find along the path as you give yourself to that journey.

RISING STARS: INTERVIEW WITH TAIWO

 Our star of the week is a young man passionate about the sustainability of Agriculture.

Taiwo: Who are you?

Tomide: "I am Israel Oluwatomide AKINLABI, an agronomist by profession and a part time missionary.

Taiwo: What is your purpose?

Tomide: My purpose is to impact those I meet positively. I enjoy discussing with children thereby assisting them to discover their talents. 

I love agribusiness and agricultural research.  

Taiwo: Where did you come from?

Tomide: Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.

Taiwo: What's your take on excellence? 

 

Tomide: Excellence is mainly about being outstanding or extremely good. Excellence does not come by chance, it comes as a result of cumulative hard work, persistence, commitment, innovation  which is usually driven by a burning passion.

Taiwo: What is your passion?

Tomide: Impacting those I come across, Research in Agriculture, Agribusiness and missionary.

Taiwo: What has kept you going in pursuing your passion?

Tomide: Holy spirit – my shepherd

Taiwo: What is your purpose in life?

Tomide: To assist others in discovering who they are.

Taiwo: What is the most important thing to you in life ?

Tomide: My family

Taiwo: Who is your mentor?

Tomide: Oyewale Abioye

Taiwo: What are your hobbies?

Tomide: Playing with children, athletic games, playing chess and sharing ideas.

Taiwo: Who is your role model?

Tomide: Dr. Akinwumi Adesina

Taiwo: Who is Christ to you?

Tomide: My Shepherd (Psalm 23:1)

Taiwo: What is your Favourite food, cloths and colour?

Tomide: Favourite food: Amala and Ewedu.

Favourite cloth: Native wears.*k

Favourite colour: Blue

Taiwo: What will you like men to remember you for?

Tomide: My contribution to food production in Nigeria.

Taiwo: A word for youths out there?

Tomide: We will harvest multiple fold of what we plant now as a youth....so plant well now that you are still young.

RISING STARS: INTERVIEW WITH TAIWO

 

Our star of the week is no one but Miss Ifedayo Esther Adeniyi. 

Born on 17th May 199x to the family of Dcn (Dr) and Arc (Mrs) Adedapo Adeniyi. 

She obtained her BSc in Architecture from Covenant University, Nigeria. 

MA Early Childhood Education, Anglia Ruskin University, UK. 

She is an Architect, teacher and evangelist.

She is currently working as an Early Years Educator at Seymour House, UK.

She is the vessel used by God to establish Bethea-Beruriah, a non profit charity and My seed is God's heritage.

The purpose of Bethea-Beruriah  is to reach out to the lost in the society through the sharing of the Gospel as well as relief materials and sponsorship programs to those in need. 

They organize:

Market out reaches 

Orphanage visits 

Hospital visits 

Old peoples home visits. 

They also encourage the spiritual, mental, academic and financial success of all their members by having weekly Bible study sessions and prayer meetings, supporting members financially and following up progress in all areas of life.

My Seed is God's Heritage is a platform for women (single or married) to pray for their children.

Follow the interview as you learn about different facet of life from my amiable star this week.

Taiwo: Who are you?

Ifedayo:  My name is Ifedayo Esther Adeniyi. I'm an architect, educationist and also an evangelist of the Gospel of Christ. 

I am easy going, most people think I like talking but I dont, I can just be really friendly. I'm more of an introvert but I don't really mind going out from time to time. 

By redemption, i am from Zion but my earthly father is from Ogga, Kogi state. 

Taiwo: What is your take on excellence as a believer?

Ifedayo:

I'm going to be talking about excellence from two points of view, one will be from the societal point of view while the other will be from the believers point of view. 

Excellence for me is wholesome success in some or all areas of life. Society defines excellence as the ability to do exceedingly well or to perform above expectations that have been set by a group of people. For the believer, excellence is meeting up to God's expectations of you.

Excellence for both the believer and the society requires sacrifice, diligence, consistency, patience and perseverance. The distinguishing factor for excellence between the society and the believer is that one requires self effort while the other requires Divine grace. 

So my take on excellence is that one must work towards excellence in all areas of life.

Taiwo: 

Hunmmm

What is your passion?

 Ifedayo : My passion is to reach out to the unreached as well as ensuring that the  incoming generation are brought up with the right kind of thinking. 

In other words, my passion is to raise an incorruptible and perverse free generation.

Taiwo: What has kept you going?

Ifedayo: 

I would say God has kept me going in the pursuit of my passion. It takes grace to stay passionate about something. 

Another thing that keeps me going is the pain I feel when I think of how perverse, corrupt and far from God's intent the world has become. 

Taiwo: What's your purpose in life?

Ifedayo: My purpose in life is to reunite the Creator with His creation and ensure things go back to how God intended it to be. 

Taiwo: What's the most important thing to you in life?

Ifedayo:

The most important thing to me in life is my faith in God. My purpose in life comes next and in my purpose is my family (both physical and spiritual). 

Taiwo: Who is your metor?

Ifedayo: My mentors are Bishop David Oyedepo, Pastor Amos Ayodele, Deacon Adedapo Adeniyi, Mike Bamiloye, Pastor (Mrs) Faith Oyedepo and Mrs Gloria Bamiloye.

My hobbies are cooking, singing, sleeping, swimming and playing with children. 

Taiwo: Who is your role model?

Ifedayo: 

My role model is Jesus. He is the only one who is without flaws, but my mother Arc (Mrs) Mobolaji Adeniyi is also my role model. 

Taiwo: Who is Christ to you?

Ifedayo: 

Christ is everything to me. He is my breath, my existence, my ever loving friend, my creator, master, Lord, lover, guide, counsel, the one who corrects and puts me in order, my confidant, my savior. He is basically everything, the reason I live. 

Taiwo: Your favorite food?

Ifedayo: My favorite food is yam (boiled, fried, roasted) and plantain. But I also really like beans and plantain. 

Taiwo: What's your favourite colour and clothing?

Ifedayo:

My favorite type of clothing is dresses.

 

My favorite color is royal blue (because I am royalty 💙)

Taiwo: What would you love to be remembered for?

 Ifedayo Adeniyi: I'd like people to remember me for my faith in God and what God empowers me to accomplish.

Taiwo: A word for the youth.

Ifedayo: I would like to say to the youths, God has a great plan for you. Never compare your life, circumstances, position or even visions to anyone else. You are your own unique person on your own unique path. Everyone is on a different path. 

Never compete with anyone, you should be your only competition. If you must compete, compete with yourself because your yesterday must never be better than your today. 

Finally I would also say, believe in God, believe in all He has planned for you. No matter how many times you fail, grace is always available to get up and move on (Proverbs 24:16).

 The race doesn't end till you get to the finish line, if you fail to get up, the race didn't end, you just didn't finish it.

Taiwo: Thanks you ma. What is leadership and self esteem? 

Ifedayo: Leadership is the ability to nurture, guide and counsel a group of people on a set course. 

Leadership is a selfless way of guiding a group of people. It means to show the right way to go on a course. 

Self esteem is confidence in self, it is confidence in who you are, what you are, what you stand for, where you are, what you have achieved and what you are set to achieve irrespective of what anyone else thinks or says.

Taiwo: Thank you so much for the honour.

It's my pleasure

RISING STARS; INTERVIEW WITH TAIWO

Best Graduating Student of the Department of English Language Obafemi Awolowo University, 2016/2017 session, Best serving corps member of the NYSC scheme , Batch C2 Queens Schools, Ibadan, 2019, Recipient of the Excellent Graduate Student award Department of English, OAU,2017, Most Enterprising Female FSF OAU,2017 amongst others.

Fast rising media personality and talk show host, speech coach, writer, Event Host and MC.

Gloria Olufeko is everyone’s favorite. She has won the hearts of many with her talk show “Exposure with GLO”, a Youtube vlog geared out towards helping the Youth find the right answers and solve life’s issues through the right channel.

She is your favorite speech doctor as she aims to whip up your diction and flawless speaking abilities with her Monday skits “Sounding Right With Doc GLO”. This has earned her the popular name “Doctor GLO”.

Gloria has interviewed celebrities such as Anto Lecky of Big Brother, Juliana Olayode (Toyo baby of Jenifas Diary), Amanda Dara of TVC amongst others and she has hosted several conferences, award ceremonies, book launches which include: The Signature Summit, The FYB Conference, The Relationship and Life Conference, Adekunle Adedoyin’s book launch “In 48 hours”, Asowunmi’s store luncheon, just to mention a few.

She is the Convener of the Yearly Women Prayer Program “When Women Pray” which holds in November every year to celebrate her birthday and bring women together under one room to call upon the name of the Lord 

You just must love her as she is industrious and hard working, she bakes and makes dresses.

She is an orator per excellence, a motivational speaker and a strong  advocate for the fair treatment of the girl child.

She has the strong will to change and add positivity to the world through the power of the voice. Follow me as she is been interviewed.

Taiwo: Who are you?

Gloria: I am a regular hardworking girl, working hard to make ends meet and live a life of impact

I am Gloria Olufeko, an up and coming media personality.I am a talk show host, diction coach and a writer.

Taiwo: Where do you come from?

Gloria:

I hail from Ijebu Ode in Ogun State

I am

A typical Yoruba girl

Taiwo: Whats your take on excellence?

Gloria: Well Excellence will ask you “is that the best way to do it?” If your answer is NO, then it is not excellence 

Excellence will always find the best way to do things and I’ve always lived by that all through life.

Taiwo: What is my passion?

Gloria: Media is my passion, it’s something I can keep doing and never get tired or bored of doing 

Media in every form, I just know I have a strong message to pass across to the world and media helps me do that. It helps me change lives positively, one life at a time

Taiwo: What has kept you going in pursuing your passion ?

Gloria: First I’ll say God, He definitely is the reason I’m still here..Then friends and family, I must say God has strategically placed people in my life who constantly see to it that I don’t give up and I keep going. I won’t pretend like I have it all together and all planned out, in fact. It hasn't been easy, fulfilling passion when no one knows you is hard, but with these people constantly reminding me that they draw inspiration from me, I just can’t afford to give up or be discouraged.

Taiwo :What’s my purpose in life 

Gloria: My purpose in life is simple, propagate the gospel of Jesus Christ through my media career. Help the downtrodden and voiceless find hope, joy and be their voice all still pointing them towards Christ. Everyday this purpose keeps ringing in my head. That’s simply what I’m here to do on earth.

The most important thing to me in life

It’s quite a lot o 🤣 

Family is for now the most important 

I can give up anything for them

Taiwo: Your mentor?

Gloria:  have different mentors for the different aspects of my life, yes that’s just it, it might sound weird but that’s just how it is

Spiritual mentor is John Alphonsus

Career Mentor is Olive Emodi although not directly I’ll say indirectly

Taiwo: Your hobbies

Gloria: Trying our new things, traveling and meeting people

Taiwo: Your role model?

Gloria: They are many ooo ahhh very very many 

Oprah Winfrey

Michelle Obama

Tomike Adeoye (a brand influencer and TV personality

Amanda Dara ( Also a TV personality)

Taiwo: Who is Christ to me?

Gloria: Christ is different personality to me in the different aspects of my life

Health he is my healer

Finance he is my provider

Security he is my protector

Salvation he saved my soul

I can’t start talking, we won’t leave here today o

Taiwo: Your favorite food 

Gloria: Eba and Okro soup

Oh I can eat it morning, afternoon and night and I won’t be tired

As we are having this interview sef I feel like eating it.

Taiwo: Waoo smile!!!

Your favorite cloth?

 Gloria: I love formal outfits a lot 

Best colour?

Gloria: Color is Blue

What I will like men to remember me for 

A woman who loves without holding back 

One who is motherly and caring 

Most importantly one who impacts everyone she found in her space for the better 

Taiwo: A word for the youth and men ma

Gloria: Life is too short to waste it

Please make good use of the time you have here on earth 

Word hard and legitimate

Love freely and give yourself to men 

Above all, know God for yourself and have a beautiful relationship with Him.