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Two Kegite Club Members Bag #40,000 Scholarship Award Each Chief Baiyewu Ayinde Kamal presenting the scholarship award to one of the beneficiaries, Comr. Bakre Zainab Photo: Safiu Kehinde  Safiu Kehinde Two Kegite Club (Ilya Lacost) members, Comr. Akinsanya Olamide Wareez and Comr. Bakre Zainab, walked home with a smile on their faces after bagging #40,000 Scholarship Award each at the recently concluded 3-day symposium of the club held at the School of Agriculture lecture theatre. The scholarship award which was initiated by the club under its education empowerment program was presented by Chief Baiyewu Ayinde Kamal who promised to increase it to ten by next symposium. Expressing his delight over the award, Akinsanya commended the effort of the Kegite Club for setting up empowerment program. “It is a great pleasure for me because I could not imagine myself winning the scholarship and I would really say a very big thank you to Ilya Lacost for organizing a such symposium comprisin...

Interview  Kegite Club: "It's far beyond drinking Palm Wine and dancing" Chief Salifu Yusuf  Ilya Lacost Chief, Salifu Yusuf during the interview session Photo: Moshood Hameedat  Safiu Kehinde Kegite Club is one of the renowned socio-cultural association across Nigerian campuses. Their tentacles also spread beyond Africa's border as they are present in the likes of India, United Kingdom, etc. Like every other students associations, Kegite boasts of a well structured organogram ranging from Comrades to the members of the executive which is headed by a Chief. Interestingly, the Chief is usually chosen- unlike other associations where the President gets elected. The chosen one may be from charismatic comrades, wiseman Philosopher, or the   palm wine server known as Pourer- as long as such member meets the criteria   a s certain traits demanded by the Elders In this exclusive interview with LaspoWatch, Chief Salifu Yusuf, took us through his journey from bei...