Public Relations Officer of the Yoruba cultural promotion organisation, Olajide Odumosu, said this in a statement on Friday.
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The competition, on Tuesday, had in attendance the Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams.
He made the disclosure at a briefing where he unveiled programmes for the celebration of the 2022 edition of Eledumare Festival in Lagos.
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, has announced that the Oke’badan and Eledumare festivals have been postponed indefinitely due to the spread of coronavirus disease across the world.
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has urged South West governors to declare two days public holiday in celebration of the Eledumare Festival across the region.
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has urged the six South West governors to build independent power projects and rail system that would link all the states in the geopolitical zone.
In a statement on Friday by the Media Relations Officer, Prince Adebowale Samusideen Olanrewaju, the annual event is scheduled to hold daily for 21 days, climaxing with a grand finale on March 20.
The information on the development was contained in a letter sent to Adams by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, on Sunday
At the end of the very entertaining evening, Titilade Obatula, a 23-year-old 300 level Science Laboratory student of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, emerged winner, while Maria-Silva Njoku, a Mass Communication 100 level student of the National Open University, was the 1st runner up.
Adams said the present arrangement of fusing Culture and Information Ministries has led to serious retrogression in the culture sector and that the situation could get worse if not quickly arrested
The Chief Promoter of Olokun Festival Foundation, Otunba Gani Adams, made this known during the Obatala Festival, which held at Baptist Primary School, Igangan, Oyo State at the weekend
The Ooni said this over the weekend when the National Coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress and National Promoter of Olokun Festival Foundation, Otunba Gani Adams, visited him in his palace in Ile-Ife, Osun State
Otunba Adams was accompanied on the visit by several aides and members of the OPU Worldwide