{"id":7808,"date":"2026-11-03T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/video-makinde-attends-launch-of-sola-sobowales-oyo-care-home\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:00:44","slug":"video-makinde-attends-launch-of-sola-sobowales-oyo-care-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/video-makinde-attends-launch-of-sola-sobowales-oyo-care-home\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Makinde attends launch of Sola Sobowale\u2019s Oyo care home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"70\">\n<p>Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has inaugurated a residential care home for older adults established by veteran Nollywood actress, Sola Sobowale, in Ibadan.\n<\/p>\n<p>The facility, named Joseph &amp; Esther Homes, is located in the Akobo area of the state capital.\n<\/p>\n<p>The opening ceremony, held on Tuesday, also featured the launch of Sobowale\u2019s book, Built From the Break.\n<\/p>\n<p>The event attracted dignitaries, guests and Nollywood personalities, including veteran actor Adebayo Salami, Ibrahim Chatta, Femi Adebayo and Kunle Afolayan.<\/p>\n<p>The event was also streamed live on Sobowale\u2019s Instagram page.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_692660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-692660\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-692660\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/VIDEO-Makinde-attends-launch-of-Sola-Sobowales-Oyo-care-home.jpg\" alt=\"Sola Sobowale\" width=\"1368\" height=\"1060\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-692660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sola Sobowale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Joseph &amp; Esther Homes is designed to provide older adults with a safe and supportive environment where they can live independently while receiving professional care and assistance.\n<\/p>\n<p>The facility operates under the tagline, \u201cLive Well, Age Well, Thrive Together\u201d, and describes itself as \u201cA Place to Call Home\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A video from the event showed an emotional moment when Sobowale was moved to tears during a tribute celebrating her vision, resilience and caring nature. Her daughter was seen consoling her.\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#bdc9d5d8d8d9d4c9d2cffdcdc8d3ded5d3da93ded2d0\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"e7938f8282838e938895a7979289848f8980c984888a\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has inaugurated a residential care home for older adults established by veteran Nollywood actress, Sola Sobowale, in Ibadan. The facility, named Joseph &amp; Esther Homes,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}