BREAKING: Renowned Nigeria Personality Is Dead

Renowned Nigeria Personality Is Dead.

OnyxNews Nigeria reports that Prof. Felicia Adebola Adeyoyin, the author of Nigeria’s national pledge, has died on Saturday, May 1 2021, which is workers day.

Prof. Felicia Adebola Adeyoyin.

She died after a brief illness.

Adedoyin who was born on the 6th of November 1938 is the 2nd of 6 Children and a Princess from the Iji Ruling House of Saki, Saki West Local Government, Oke Ogun area of Oyo State.

An educationist, Adeyoyin received her PhD in 1981 from the University of Lagos.

She lectured at the University of Lagos and was a consultant with the United Nations.

Adedoyin wrote the national pledge in 1976.

She was propelled to write the pledge following questions by her children who had been used to reciting the Oath of Allegiance while in school in New York, and the State Pledge in Achimota School, Ghana.

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Prof. Adeyoyin wrote the pledge in the Daily Times in July 15, 1976, in an article titled ‘Loyalty to the Nation, Pledge’ which was shown to the then Head of State, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, who modified it and introduced it to the country during the formal launch of the Universal Free Primary Education (UPE) and decreed that all school children recite the national pledge while in assembly.

In 2005, Prof Adeyoyin was given a national award, the Officer of the Order of Nigeria (OON). She was in the care of her children when she died, and surrounded by loved ones.