South-West Group of Online Publishers (SWEGOP), on Wednesday, hosts Comrade Sikiru Bayo Titilola-Sodo, the Special Adviser (Labour Affairs) to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on its monthly personality programme.
SWEGOP is a group of online publishers across Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ogun and Ekiti states, practicing with the aim of promoting professionalism through self-regulation and providing a wider reach, via multiple online media outlets.
The July edition of the monthly personality programme of SWEGOP holds at the Development Support Centre (DSP), Iyaganku, Ibadan by 3pm on Wednesday.
The SWEGOP members will engage Comrade Sodo (as he is fondly called), an activist, administrator, agriculturist, accountant and a lawyer, on the activities, programmes and achievements of Governor Makinde in the last three years.
The event which promises, not only to renew the existing cordial relationship between the SWEGOP members and the state government, will also afford the parties the opportunity to mirror into the ongoing developmental strides of the government.
61-year-old Sikiru Bayo Titilola-Sodo attended Wesley School, Mamu Ijebu; Agbeni Methodist School, Ibadan, Ibadan Grammar School and Irepo Grammar School, Igboho where he sat for his WASCE in 1979 and laid a record of the best results ever with A in seven subjects including English and Mathematics, and two credits.
Sodo proceeded to the University of Nigeria (UNN), Nsukka, the same year and graduated with honors in Crop Science and joined the Oyo State Local Government Service in 1990 as an agricultural officer.
He later attended the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife for a postgraduate programme in Local Government Administration and a Master of Business Administration (MBA).
He converted to the Accountant Cadre and attended the Nigeria College of Accountancy after which he qualified as a Certified National Accountant (CNA).
Sodo obtained an LLB, attended the Nigerian Law School and was called to the bar in 2020 and rose through the ranks in the public service to retire as a Permanent Secretary at the age of 60 in 2020.
He later became the state president of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) in 2013 and also served as the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) till 2020.
Comrade Sodo, married with three children-two legal practitioners and an engineering student-enjoys music, reading and traveling and he plays chess and golf.
