It was a wow moment of Poetry renditions, Spoken Word performances as well as motivating and inspiring talks from both upcoming and established voices in the stage and page literary industry at Umar Isa Saidu’s album launch, in the emirate city of Ilorin, Kwara State.

The album titled “Man of the Moment”, launched on Saturday, May 19th at Mazabs Event Centre, Tanke, Ilorin, is a body of inspirational and motivational audio poetry and songs from the staple of The Dynamic Galvanizer’s “Etsumar Poetry” Management. 

The well graced event, anchored by Ben Da Poet, had glorifying Poetry renditions and uplifting Spoken Words performances from masters and neophytes such as: Hashim Yusuf Amao, Suba Junior (Modern Poet); Halimat Jummai Manzuma; Caleb Itunu Akingboro (CIA); Yusuf AbdulQodir  (Mr Calox); Ipaye O. Ayolekan (Sali); AbdulQodir Toyeeb; Ukor Jonathan; Sidiq Fahidat; Ibrahim Ahmad Abolakale and Rufaidat Al-Siddiq Onyinoyi.

Other performers were Habeebat Ayodimeji; Aremu Ayokunle; Afolabi Qoyum Kolade; Bodunde Omolara Esther (The Didactic Writer); AbdulRasheed Shafihi Oladimeji; Aliyu Ahmad Olalekan; Nailn Nayll, AbdulRahman Isiaq and Afolabi Lawal (J-smile).

Also, the Man of the Moment, Umar Saidu Isa (The Dynamic Galvanizer), Ben Da Poet, and Abdulhafeez T. Oyewole (Prince H.T.O) were not left out of the presentations.

The album launching also featured inspirational and motivational talk from Umar Saidu Isa on the importance of education to one’s and other people’s career. While comparing and contrasting between career and education, he noted that education is an integral part of one’s career world.

Also speaking on the topic: “Believe in yourself even when nobody believes in you,” President of the Union of Campus Journalists (UCJ), UNILORIN, Osuji Ichima, recalled how he pursued his second degree in Law, mindless of age being against him.

He charged the audience at the gathering to change the narrative of what they stand for, like him, imploring them to be focused and to keep soaring like eagles.

In his talk entitled,  “Never let negative comments way you down”, National President of the National Association of Kwara State Students (NAKSS), Musa Muhammad Mancha, recollected how he sacrificed his First Class as a 200 level student of Bio-Chemistry Department to pursue his Medicine dream, which he got with the least of his JAMB scores after his relentless struggle to be admitted to study his choice of profession.

The Kwara state students’ President who observed that it cannot be smooth when it is not rough, enjoined youths to be dutiful to themselves and their academic pursuits, before any other things or persons.

Earlier, the goodwill messages of the high profile personalities, like Dr Sainyerr, Dr Mahfouz Adedimeji and Alhaji Jibril Baba Haruna, stressed the need for youths to focus, exercise patience and be unrelenting in knocking through the success door, but most importantly, without cutting corners.

The event had in attendance friends, colleagues, teaching and non-teaching staff and students of both University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) and Kwara State University (KWASU), including KWASU’s Vice Chancellor, ably represented by the Dean, School of Allied Health and Environmental Science, Dr Sainyerr.

Others at the gathering were Alhaji Muhammed Ibrahim Sia from KWASU’s Registry Department, Alhaji Jibril Baba Haruna of the state's Ministry of Local Government Service Commission (L.G.S.C.); Dr Mahfouz Adedimeji of UNILORIN’s English Department; Alhaji Tunde Kabir, and Mr Saka Imam.