Ipesa- Balogun celebrates birthday with prayer, book launch 

Former Chairman of Oshodi/Isolo Council, Lagos State, Afeez Ipesa-Balogun, has commemorated his 60th day with a peculiar supplication and publication launch. The lawsuit besides featured the unveiling of 60 winners of Ipesa-Balogun@60 Scholarship Scheme.

The supplication held successful the mosque built by his precocious wife, Monsurah Ipese-Balogun Mosque, successful Awoyaya, Lagos. While delivering a lecture astatine the event, erstwhile Commissioner for Home Affairs, Dr AbdulHakeem AbduLateef, said gratitude and patience are the 2 weapons to flooded challenges successful Islam.

“Humans walk done 4 stages of existence, first, erstwhile you are successful your mother’s womb; second, erstwhile you are calved to the world; third, erstwhile you are successful the grave, and lastly, the judgement day.  The astir important of these stages is erstwhile we are calved and enactment connected the earth’s surface. Why this signifier is important due to the fact that it determines our afterlife, the judgement day.”

He noted that radical are led astray due to the fact that they don’t cognize that this satellite is simply a trial; arsenic they misinterpret occurrence and failure. According to him, “it is lone Allah that determines who is palmy and who is not.”

He continued: “Some radical gave themselves certificates of piousness, saying they are the pious ones. Allah said successful the Holy Quran that it is lone Him who knows who genuinely worships him. If we recognize trials precise well, we volition not beryllium moving helter and skelter implicit trivial things.” 

He added that a proceedings is antithetic from an introspection wherever questions are asked and you are expected to springiness the close answer. “Trial takes things from radical by unit without asking, waiting for your reactions to spot if they volition walk the trial and the top quality force Shaitan volition beryllium connected standby to mislead.

“The top mistake of humans is this supplication said by everyone, ‘God don’t let america to spot trial’ whereas Allah created you with trial.  The similitude of this popularly said supplication is that of a pupil who is praying for an exam to beryllium cancelled alternatively of preparing for the exam. In specified a concern if the schoolhouse yet cancelled the exam different time volition beryllium fixed. So, praying not to witnesser a trier is not a prayer, to flooded it is the existent prayer.”

Earlier successful the week, the celebrant presented a book, titled, ‘Afeez Ipesa-Balogun, Mr Speaker…Exploration Of The Archives’. The publication is simply a compendium connected the travel of Ipesa-Balogun from birth, infancy, aboriginal schoolhouse age, precocious schoolhouse and tertiary institutions. It centred connected his dreams and accomplishments; it chronicles the erstwhile assembly boss’ foray into authorities up till his diamond jubilee celebrations. 

The celebrant said the publication is dedicated to God, his parents – the precocious Alhaji Atanda Balogun and Alhaja Ramota Balogun (Nee Akinboro) – and his precocious wife, Monsurat Mosunmola Ipesa-Balogun. 

The reviewer, Prof Olugbenga Akingbehin, said the publication came astatine a clip of terrible dearth of politically stimulating books, noting: “It is simply a agleam spark successful the acheronian satellite of the Nigerian intelligence voyage. The book’s powerfulness and vigor should, therefore, substance the scholarly thirst of students, politicians, historians and aboriginal leaders. I hereby commend this invaluable publication to the speechmaking public.”