Brief history of olusegun obasanjo presidential library

The time is 2:10pm.

There is a flurry of activities at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Ogun State. As guests hurried through, they could not, however, help pausing for a moment, as the din set up by hundreds of men doing hundreds of assigned tasks in the complex resounded.

The architecture is just as stunning as the views: Incredible and very impressive.

“The building has been designed like an outstretched arm to welcome visitors,’’ said one of the tour guides. There are actually about four of them.

The sprawling edifice is not like your local library with its kiddies’ corner, magazines and overdue fines, this little-known institution is a hybrid of historical archive and public museum t