Author Of Nigeria’s National Pledge, Professor Adedoyin, Dies At 83
Professor Felicia Adebola Adedoyin, the author of Nigeria’s National Pledge, has died after a brief illness.
She was in the care of her children and surrounded by loved ones when she passed away on Saturday, May 1, according to Inside Oyo.
Prof. Adedoyin, who lectured at the University of Lagos and was a consultant with the United Nations, wrote the National Pledge in 1976.
She was inspired 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.
Prof. Adedoyin published the Pledge in the Daily Times on July 15, 1976, in an article titled “Loyalty to the Nation, Pledge.”.It 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 during assembly.
In 2005, Prof Adedoyin was given a national award, the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).
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