Dear father,

Happy birthday - all the grandkids are so grown up and it would have been great for you to meet Zaylee…. However we’re sure you are smiling down at her (as mum is…..).

 Thanks so much for having been an understanding father - more understanding and loving than anyone could have wished for…. It’s our great comfort to know that you’re enjoying the peace you richly deserve. Far away from all the troubles and pressures of this world - and more importantly, that you fulfilled your calling and purpose and didn’t live off anyone’s glory but built and established the way for so many.God is the best rewarder of all efforts and I’m sure that all your efforts will be richly blessed (Amen).

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DADDY PROF. JOSHUA ADEWALE THOMPSON OJO.

I really do not know where to start.  I have found it too difficult and unbelievable writing a tribute to someone whom I have known from childhood as a father.  More so when we were trusting God while you were asking us to join our faith with yours believing you would get well soon.

Hardly did I know that I would be so close to you in 1968 when you taught me History in form one at Ekiti Parapo College, Ido - Ekiti where you worked briefly after graduating from the University of Ife now Obafemi  Awolowo University.  It was during this time that you met my only sister Florence Olayemi, the girl who eventually became your wife of forty years before her demise in 2009. You have been there for me and my family as a father and somebody to look up to as I was always around you and your wife since then.

The memory is still fresh of how you used to drive all the way from Lagos to Ikogosi to see Yeye (as your late mother was fondly called), to Epe to see my mother, to Ado-Ekiti to see your sister Mrs. Ilojo,  Akure to see Daddy  Ogundare and  Ondo, to visit Baba Ondo (your late Uncle). On our way back,   the car would be loaded to the brim (with no space to put our legs),  with fresh farm produce such as yam, assorted vegetables, plantain, bush meat which you loved so dearly, assorted fruits and in particular your favorite pumpkins (agbeje).  Oh! how time flies.

My trip to Austria in 1979 for holiday with your children when you were working at OPEC while your wife was a student in Germany is still fresh in my memory.  It was from your home I took off to my own home. My wedding was planned from your home and conducted at your church, Shepherd Hill Baptist Church Obanikoro, as I started my own family with my husband. Even after our wedding, we had to put up with your family for good 6 months before moving to our own apartment. This is how magnanimous you were to us.

Our children grew up to know you as “Daddy Campus”.

Daddy, what more can we say, you were a loving husband to your wife. You stood with her when she needed your presence. Quite unfortunate she was snatched away from you suddenly by the cold hands of death in 2009. An incidence that shook you greatly!!!  You were a faithful and wonderful father to your children. Thank God that you trained them in the ways of the Lord which is evident in their lives even when they had left home.

What more can we say, your godly virtues are highly contagious as no one can go out without the morning devotion nor sleep without the night prayer time and fellowship. Daddy, our consolation is that you modeled many lives. You left a godly legacy for all of us. You touched numerous lives and homes. Above all, we are confident that you are resting in the bosom of the Lord you loved so much.

Good night Daddy. We shall meet at the resurrection morning where we meet to part no more.



VICTORIA MODUPE OJO

Your demise came to me as a rude shock. 1 Corinthians 15:55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”

Daddy Campus, as we used to call you when we were much younger. You had a very large heart to accommodate every family member, including myself.

I am bold to say that you were my lecturer, and you performed your work with the integrity of heart.

You left legacies and several memories behind, one of which is your library of books which I found very helpful while writing my final year project. 

I also remember how you came to visit me in my house when I gave birth to my first child. I thought that could have only come from the largeness of your heart.

You were ever-smiling and happy. I never saw you get angry. You loved hymns, a lot of hymns that I know today are credited to your love for hymns.

You came to this world, you fought the good fight of faith, and you held on to the faith up till the end.

We surely would miss your presence.

Till we meet to part no more. Adieu Sir.

Adewale Ojo was a year junior to me at Ekiti Parapo College, Ido Ekiti. He demonstrated brilliance right from the beginning, being one of the three brightest students in his class. He was poor, but determined to make it in life. This led him eventually to read Banking and Finance at Obafemi Awolowo University where he graduated in 1968. He must have gone abroad for his Post Graduate Studies. The next I knew of him was that he was lecturing at the University of Lagos. This encouraged me to send my first daughter there to study under him. I have never regretted this decision. Adewale, you were a scholar indeed. I was present at the Covenant University when you launched many books you wrote. May you rest in peace and may the Lord console and comfort the children you and your wife left behind. Sun re

Professor Ojo was my mentor in the MSc Finance Class of 1982. He later recommended m for a Faculty Position at the Department of Accounting and Finance of the University of Ilorin where I was till I relocated to the UK. May his soul rest in perfect peace and May the Almighty God bless and protect all that he left behind