About us

Trustees of Olugbenga Akintola Foundation

Familusi, Abiola Olawale (Chairman)

Akintola, James Olugbenga

Amodu, Sarah Olabisi

An upbringing and orientation of giving back and service to the community of man is the core Value that drives us towards making a difference.

Vision

To uplift the people of Osun through inclusiveness, healthy partnerships and supports that empower people to be the major contributing block to the development of Osun State.

Mission

Our mission is to inspire hope by contributing to the enhancement of the dignity and quality of life of Osun citizens while bringing people the power to reach their full potential through giving back.

Aims and Objectives of the Foundations:

1. To form a charity organisation aimed at helping, supporting and promoting the welfare of poor indigenes of Osun State of Nigeria.

2. To foster human capital development in Osun State by empowering indigenes who have sound economic/entrepreneurial initiatives but lacking capital with necessary resources.

3. To cooperate with other organisation with similar objectives in Osun State to engender human capital development of the state.

4. To initiate developmental projects that can bring about the development of Osun State.

5. To give scholarships to brilliant students from low income families in Osun State of Nigeria.

An ardent believer in the philosophy of omolúàbí, Olugbenga Akintola exemplifies this in his personal behavior and social interactions. His life’s experience taught him that owó kan kò gbé erù d’órí (i.e. a helping hand supports the other to carry a load onto the head); his natural disposition, therefore, is one of a commitment to the service of collective good with empathy. The aforementioned experience and love for people underpin the creation of the Olugbenga Akintola Foundation [OAF] as a means to give back and restore the bridges that Olugbenga also walked through.

OAF’s approach is rooted in omolúàbí’s ethos of hard work and self-reliance: isé l’ògùn ìsé (work is the antidote to poverty). Consequently, OAF created a Microfinance Initiative, in this spirit, and because the Founder believes that an omolúàbí has no expectation for a hand-out but rather a helping hand to prosper. The Microfinance Initiative, therefore, supports aspiring entrepreneurs and those seeking to consolidate their micro-business. The guiding principle of the Initiative is to support those who believe in the dignity of labor as a means for their economic empowerment and overcoming a condition that could have otherwise been one of poverty.

Economic empowerment and overcoming poverty, however, must be enjoyed in good health. OAF furthers its mission with a value on wellness: ìlera l’orò (health is wealth). This inspired the creation of OAF’s medical mission which comprises of a free mobile clinic that screens for common diseases such as diabetes and hypertension; beneficiaries of this medical service are not only screened, they also receive free medication for their conditions.

OAF epitomizes its Founder’s conviction that people must be the focus of development to attain their ‘most evolved character,’ i.e. omolúàbí. People’s economic and health wellbeing are critical to enhancing Osun State’s status as Ìpínlè Omolúàbí because OAF’s beneficiaries are being supported for their productive capacity to be unleashed for a wealthy and healthy Osun State.

Welcome to Olugbenga Akintola Foundation

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.

1985

Old University

No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.

To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

1989

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted.

The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

1991

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

1998

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted.

The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted.

The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

Timothy Law Snyder, the 16th president of JA Alumni University

To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted.

The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.

To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.

But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted.

The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.