Olojo Festival 2026: Ile-Ife prepares for another celebration of Yoruba heritage
The stage is set for the 2026 Olojo Festival in Ile-Ife, the historic spiritual centre of the Yoruba people.
As preparations intensify, Arole Oduduwa remains in seclusion, observing the traditional period of prayers and spiritual reflection for the Yoruba race ahead of his emergence adorned with the sacred Ade Are.
The annual Olojo Festival brings together culture, history, spirituality and Yoruba heritage, reaffirming Ile-Ife’s enduring place as a sacred centre of Yoruba civilisation.
May this year’s Olojo Festival bring peace, unity, prosperity and renewed cultural pride to the Yoruba people worldwide.
Àṣẹ Edumare. 🕊️👑
We have taken another significant step towards unlocking the economic potential of Ogun State with the signing of Memoranda of Understanding with DP World MEA FZE for the development of the Gateway Deep Sea Port and the Ogun State Blue Marine Special Economic Zone.
The projects, witnessed by our President, His Excellency Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, in Paris, France, are expected to attract more than $7 billion in initial investment and create over 50,000 direct jobs, while opening new opportunities in manufacturing, logistics, maritime services, exports and other sectors.
The Gateway Deep Sea Port in Ogun Waterside will be integrated with a proposed 10,000-hectare Blue Marine Special Economic Zone and connected to other strategic infrastructure, including the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and our Gateway International Airport.
For us, this is about much more than building a port. We are creating an integrated economic corridor capable of connecting Ogun State’s productive capacity to markets across Africa and the rest of the world.
We appreciate President Tinubu for the leadership and federal support that have helped move this long-standing vision closer to reality. We equally commend the Federal Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, the Nigerian Ports Authority and all our partners for their commitment.
Under our Building Our Future Together agenda, we remain committed to attracting investments, creating jobs and positioning Ogun State as a leading industrial, logistics and investment destination.
Why I love Yourba Culture?
It's carefully encapsulated in this video of the Governor of Ekiti @biodunaoyebanji and Aare Afe Babalola, SAN who is 95 years old.
You see, Afe Babalola is one of the greatest Nigerians alive and is one of the greatest sons of Ekiti State.
The man educated himself out of lack and poverty. He homeschooled himself to pass...
- Cambridge School Certificate
- London University GCE qualifications
- https://t.co/ddcf0UdXLq. Economics, University of London, 1959
- LL.B., University of London, 1963
- Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn, 1963
His formal class room education stopped in Primary School yet he did not stop.
He was called to the Bar in 1963 and in 1965, he established his own firm, Afe Babalola & Co., Emmanuel Chambers.
In 1987, he became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).
An excellent lawyer and arguably the wealthest man in Ekiti state.
Mr governor possesses greater influence and power than Afe Babalola, yet Yoruba cultural prioritize showing respect to elders over acknowledging power.
Yoruba Sounds and Yoruba Cinema. Someday, we will able to call them those as mainstream fields. 🙏🏽
And yes, Yoruba Creative Arts as a collective including paintings, woodwork and all sort of arts we take on.
Yoruba people are united, when you have shown capacity as a leader, Yoruba will unite behind you. Look at Chief Sunday Ogboho, he proof himself that he is worthy and all the naysayers are praising him today.
#thinkyorubafirst
If you believe that there is no genocide against indigenous people of the middle belt by Islamist Fulani militias then I also don’t believe in Gaza Genocide.
Not all black folks are unintelligent and irrational. Tens of thousands are being slaughtered in my own country, my own continent but you want me to worry about Gaza?
My own Gaza is in Kwara state and Oyo national park.
But Turkey stole almost half of Cyprus from the Greeks for over 40 years now.
The United Nations have made several attempts to ask Turkey to handover Northern Cyprus to the Greeks who are the rightful owners, Turkey continues to reject it and occupy a land that does not belong to them?
What is the difference between Turkey and Israel? None! They are the same.
Turkey killed millions of Kurds less than 80 years ago and wiped out all the indigenous Greek population in modern day Turkey today.
To create Turkey, Ataturk Kemal killed 1.5 million Armenians and took over their ancestral and spiritual homelands. The United Nations called it the Armenian Genocide.
Turkey is a superpower built on genocide.
🚨HUGE: Hakeem Jeffries declares high-quality, affordable healthcare must be a RIGHT for every American, not “a privilege available only to the wealthy, the well-off and the well-connected.”
He says affordable healthcare will be a priority under a House Democratic majority.
A country can be rich in resources and lose its identity.
Deculturalization is the hidden cost of development. Strip a people of their culture and you erode their self-confidence. They start measuring themselves by someone else's yardstick, and that's where the "sense of deprivation" comes from.
For optimum performance, a man must know himself. So must a nation. A society that doesn't know itself imports its standards, its ambitions and its insecurities.
Modernize. Trade with the world. Learn from everyone. But do not lose yourself.
sovereignty isn't only borders and armies. It's the power to define your own success.