BEACON OF HOPE!

• New dawn for motherless children as 50-year personal loss turns to national lifeline
 
By Seye Ojo
Diamonds are often looked at as symbols of luxury. But their true brilliance comes from surviving unimaginable pressure in the deepest depths of the earth.
For 50 years, one personal loss has undergone that exact transformation. It has ensured the crushing weight of grief to emerge as a beacon of hope. Now, a half-century of private mourning is stepping into the light to become a national lifeline through the launch of “Diamonds in the Rough.”
It is all about the Olufunke Olayinka Akinyele, daughter of Chief James Ladejo Ogunsola, the Late Otun Balogun of Ibadanland. She breat...