Unveiling! Ara’s EKO INSPIRE ME ACADEMY For Good Boys & Girls On October 19
Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
…….Visits Obasanjo For Blessings
Remember ARA? Aralola Olamuyiwa!
The first internationally renowned African female talking-drummer.
Super-skilled Ara will be unveiling her Reality TV show named: EKO INSPIRE ME ACADEMY on the 19th of October at Ebony Life Place located at 1637, Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
According to her, EKO INSPIRE ME ACADEMY aims to save young Lagosians who have helplessly resigned themselves to the darkness of street-life.
Ara prefers to refer to the street-dwelling youngsters as ‘Good Boys and Girls’. She said her heart-touching and deeply revealing interactions with them inspired her against tagging the youngsters derogatorily.
Her words: ‘The event is a multi-phased process that will feature talent-based competitive selection of ‘good boys and girls’ from the ‘flash points’ of Lagos State.
It is designed to have as its climax the award of scholarships and other life-enhancing opportunities to the winners.
EKO INSPIRE ME ACADEMY is a Lagos-wide and continuous exercise that will duly travel across Nigeria with emerging support from institutions and persons of high privilege who seek to give back to the society.
Ara who recently paid a courtesy visit to her father and mentor, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, to intimate him and get his blessings for her new project said she aimed at saving young Lagosians who have helplessly resigned themselves to the darkness of street-life and she prefers to refer to street-dwelling youngsters as ‘good boys and girls’.
‘The reality show is a multi-phased process Visits Former President Olusegun Obasanjo that will feature talent-based competitive selection of ‘good boys and girls’ from the ‘flash points’ of Lagos State. She said.
While welcoming Ara, the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo said he was impressed with the idea of the “EKO INSPIRE ME by Ara. He promised to give all the necessary support to Ara, to make the project a successful one.
Obasanjo therefore, thanks the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the support he has given the project “Eko Inspire Me”. I urge other State Governors to emulate The Governor of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu in making sure the project goes across other states with ‘Ogun Inspire Me, Osun Inspire Me, Enugu Inspire Me or Kano Inspire Me by Ara. Obasanjo said.
