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Ile Ife Ready For Olojo Festival, Celebrating The Dawn Of The First Day

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Olojo festivalThe Olojo Festival is set to showcase a rich Yoruba cultural celebration that is geared towards the promotion of cultural values, global peace and prosperity. It will celebrate the ancient magnificent and splendour of Ade-Aare Crown in the public square, exhibitions of Yoruba antiquities, display of cultural troupes, other materials of the culture and much more for all visitors and residents to enjoy the weekend of September 30 to October 2, 2017. Olojo Festival cultural weekend will be held at convenient locations near the Palace at Enuwa in Ile Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.

The Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty, Oba AdeyeyeEnitanOgunwusi (Ojaja II) is calling on all visitors far and wide to come and celebrate the official Yoruba New Year in Ile Ife, Nigeria, as he explains: “with my global outreach initiative which is creating a new epic movement, I’ve been travelling out of my kingdom to visit other nations around the world to share our own stories, delivering academic lectures, re-charting the leading role of Yoruba nation in the world and to reignite the immortal Yoruba spirit of enlightenment as the glowing fountain of knowledge that gave birth to the world civilisation”. He further stated that, “the existence of Ile-Ife as the source of humanity has been genetically studied and attested to by the scientific work of Dr. Etienne Papin and his 24 man-team at Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. The studies corroborate the genetic existence of the Yoruba collective in Nigeria at more than 100,000 years ago-with two distinct main groups, Khoe-San of South Africa splitting away at 87,000 years ago and Mbuti of DRC parting from Yoruba at 56,000 years ago respectively”.

Therefore, and according to Ooni “Olojo is notably the foremost festival that the world has ever known. It existence was a triumphant initiative from divinity to humanity as it was also the primal source to the creation of other festivals. Olojo celebrates the dawn of the first day of existence on earth, as described and reference in many holy and religious books when God said let there be light and there was light. I am keen to use the event as an opportunity for the world to come and experience our authentic cultural festivities.”

The Festival as a traditional and cultural event was attended by approximately 250,000 people last year 2016, placing the event as the third largest biggest festival in the world after Rio Mardi Gras in Brazil with 500, 000 attendees and Holi in India receiving the most visitors at 2 million plus. The Olojo festival is unique as it centres on the once-a-year wearing of the Ade-Aare Crown which is arguably  the oldest monarchic crown in existence; as it has been strictly maintained over millennia and 51 successive Ooni’s wearing the exact same crown.

Brian e Ebden, Communications Consultant for the Olojo Festival said: “within the next five years, there is no reason for the Olojo Festival not to attract over a million visitors to the spiritual homeland of Yoruba people. As an African celebration, it is second to none as it draws upon an extremely wide variety of exotic traditions in terms of clothing, music, dancing and customs and is a visual spectacular.”

Prince Babajide Fadiaro, CEO of House of Oduduwa Foundation, stated: “Olojo Festival continues to be an event that the city of Ife can be proud of, as it represents many of the qualities that make Ile Ife so unique. I invite and encourage our residents and visitors to take time to enjoy some if not all parts of the festival and engage with the many visiting as they share their culture with us.”

Dr.Ayobami O. Oyedare of Oonirisa of Ile- Ife Global Outreach commented: “The Olojo festival has reinvented itself from being a seemingly insular cultural meeting point to a global fountain of togetherness and connectedness that is dispensing formidable heritage appreciation, cultural intellectualism and contemporary engagement towards the mission of world peace and unity. The result of this is a global amalgamation of people of all ages, races and backgrounds championing new cultural frontiers, transforming economic development, and reconstructing the chronicles of the human race which its source and expansion began from the Yoruba nation- Ile-Ife.”

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OLOJO FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

Saturday, 30 September 2017

  • Okemogun day, the Are’s culturalprocession

Sunday, 1 October 2017

  • Grand finale of Olojo Festival2017

Monday, 2 October 2017

  • The closing ceremony, which will feature Oonirisa ancestral traditional propitiation cultural trade/art exhibition

For more information about the festival and the full programme of events, email festival@olojo.org or visit www.olojo.org.

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Drama as Rema walks off stage at J Cole’s Dreamville Festival over sound issues

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Rema, the Nigerian singer, on Sunday, walked off the stage during his performance at the 2024 Dreamville Festival in North Carolina.

The two-day festival took place on April 6 and 7.

Rema performed on day 2 alongside music heavyweights including J. Cole, Nicki Minaj, Monica, and Muni Long.

During his performance of ‘Calm Down’, his hit track, the music star abruptly stopped the show due to sound issues.

A now-viral video captures Rema expressing his dissatisfaction with the sound quality, calling it “messed up” and stating it was hindering his performance.

He also called for equal treatment regarding sound quality for all artistes.

“Hold on, there are too many sound issues. it is messing up my whole performance I am seriously not feeling this sh*t at all,” he said

“It is too messed up. I am representing Africa, this is too messed up. If the sound cannot be perfect for every artiste that gets on this stage… Africa is in the house and you are messing sh*t up? I will walk out this stage bruh, fix it!”

Another clip shows Rema reiterating his concerns about the sound before leaving the stage.

“Too many sound issues my people, I love you goodnight,” he added.

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Moses Bliss holds traditional wedding in Ghana (Video)

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Moses Bliss, the Nigerian gospel singer, and Marie Wiseborn, his wife, have held their traditional wedding in Ghana.

In now-viral videos, the couple performed their wedding rites before family members and friends.

The couple represented their different cultural backgrounds as they dressed in Ghanaian and Nigerian outfits during the ceremony.

The Wiseborn family also presented the couple with a plaque gift to appreciate the singer.

Some of the celebrities present at the ceremony include actress Juliet Ibrahim, Enioluwa Adeoluwa, the content creator, Layole Oyatogun, the OAP, and comedians Real Warri Pikin and Josh2Funny.

The couple also entertained the guests with choreographed dance steps.

In his vote of thanks, Moses described Marie as the “best bride in the whole of the universe”.

“Just before I give my vote of thanks. I want to correct an impression. When the MC was introducing my wife, he said this is the most beautiful bride in Africa. That is very wrong. She is the most beautiful bride in the whole of the universe. Just to put things in perspective,” he said.

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Controversy trails Flavour’s performance at RCCG pastor Siju’s party

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Controversy trails Flavour’s performance at RCCG pastor Siju’s party

Siju, a pastor and wife of the Idowu Iluyomade, a senior pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), City of David, Lagos, has set tongues wagging on social media for inviting secular singer Flavour to perform at her birthday party.

Siju, who is also a lawyer, speaker and activist, turned 60 last week.

She then celebrated the occasion at the Eko Hotels in Victoria Island in a grand style on Sunday.

The colourful and glamorous birthday party was graced by some notable figures, monarchs and the crème de la crème of the entertainment industry.

The attendees included Tony Elumelu, Toke Makinwa, Ali Baba, and Kenny Saint Brown, as well as Rasaq and Shade Okoya, among others.

In viral videos, Flavour, who was one of the performing artistes, was seen entertaining the guests with hit songs from his music catalogue.

In one of the videos, the singer also serenaded the celebrant on stage while she danced along to his performance.

The footage, however, attracted heated controversy on social media. Several Nigerians on X questioned why a secular artiste like Flavour should be performing at the birthday party of a pastor.

“When you see 60th birthday celebration of PASTOR Siju Illuyomade, then you will know why some people are STILL running away from church!” a user wrote.

Another user added in a lengthy post: “RCCG Pastor Siju Iluyomade, the wife of the senior Pastor of one of the biggest RCCG Parish held her 60th birthday party this weekend and Flavour was the lead artist but no gospel musician”.

Here is what some users had to say:

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