Date 2015-02-25
Category Gist & Gossip
Irohin Odua, a pan-Yoruba media outfit which prides itself as the first ever Yoruba news outlet, a few days ago, bestowed an esteem honour on Prophet T.B. Joshua, the General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), as the ‘Yoruba man of the Decade, after voters p!cked him in a poll they conducted.
Apart from Joshua, the organization also named erudite playwright and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, as the ‘Yoruba man of the Century.’
According to the Editorial Board Chairman of Irohin Odua, Prince Babatunde Adeleke, Prophet Joshua and Prof. Soyinka were selected after a careful consideration of the role each had played in the annals of Yoruba modern history regarding placing the Yoruba on the positive angle of global reckoning.