Chairman of SIFAX Group, Dr. Taiwo Afolabi (MON), has been installed as the new Grand Patron of City Profs Educational Foundation (CPEF), a think-thank organisation made up of senior citizens and eminent Nigerians with the mandate of advancing educational and vocational skills in Nigeria.
Afolabi replaced the late Brig. Gen. Dr. Mobolaji Johnson (CFR), who passed on recently.
L-R: Barr. Ezekiel Ajewole, Executive Director/Senior Special Assistant to the GEVC, SIFAX Group; Bright Echendu, CPEF Cofounder/Executive Secretary; Boma Ukwunna, Executive Director, Cargo Services/Operations, SAHCO Plc; Basil Agboarumi, Managing Director, SAHCO Plc; Great Grand Ma, Essie Florence Ibijoke Kukoyi, former head teacher (rtd), Command Children School and Chairman, CPEF Projects Expansion Committee; Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, Group Executive Vice Chairman, SIFAX Group; Alhaji Ismail Adetola Lawal, Founder/Chairman, IAL Nigeria Ltd & Chairman, CPEF Board of Patrons; Mrs. Oluwagbemiga Benson, Pioneer Executive Chairman, Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and Chairman, CPEF Advisory Committee; Mrs. Gbolahan Daodu, immediate past Executive Chairman, Lagos SUBEB & Chairman, CPEF Vocational Skill Acquisition Initiative; Oluwole David, CPEF Cofounder/Programmes Coordinator and Olaniyi Adigun, Executive Director, Sales & Marketing Committee at the installation ceremony of Afolabi as the Grand Patron of City Profs Educational Foundation which was held at SAHCO Plc, Lagos.
At the installation event which held at Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc, a subsidiary of SIFAX Group, Afolabi pledged to support the association’s drive to uplift the development of
education in Nigeria.
He also pledged to support association’s quest to build an e-library at Abeokuta.