The command’s spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, said in a press statement that security would be provided by the police, before, during and after the festival.
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Osun Osogbo Festival is an over 600-year-old international cultural tourism event celebrated as the annual sacrifice to the Osun River goddess.
The Ataoja of Osogboland, Oba Jimoh Oyetunji, has disclosed that the Osun Osogbo Festival 2019 grand procession to the scared Osun Grove will hold on August 16, 2019.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that monarchs, devotees, masqueraders as well as traditional religion worshippers paid homage to the host of the festival and Ataoja of Osogboland, Oba Jimoh Olanipekun, at the Osun-Osogbo groove.
Tourists and cultural enthusiasts from across the globe on Friday flooded the ancient city of Osogbo, Osun, to join the fiesta marking the grand finale of the annual Osun Osogbo festival.
Elebu-Ibon made the call while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on the sidelines of the grand finale of the festival on Friday in Osogbo.
The Police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Osun on Thursday promised to ensure adequate security during this year’s celebration of the Osun-Osogbo festival.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the grand finale of the festival had a lot of cultural colouration with foreign and local tourists, state government functionaries and political office holders in attendance.
The organisers of the 2015 Osun Osogbo Festival on Thursday said participants from 11 countries would attend the 2015 edition…
Ayo Olumoko, the organiser of Osun Osogbo Festival, on Tuesday said plans were underway to list it on the Nigerian…