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Friday, October 28, 2022

Oyebanji, Bamidele, Bamisile, Others Meets Senate President.

Ekiti Dev: Oyebanji, Bamidele, Bamisile, Others Meets Senate President.
....discussed some of the challenges confronting the state.
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji on Wednesday led federal Lawmakers from the State in a meeting with the Senate President,  Ahmad Lawan, and other leaders of the Assembly.

A release signed by Gov. Oyebanji's  Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode said the meeting took place at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja.

Governor Oyebanji discussed some of the challenges confronting the state, especially in the areas of poor condition of federal roads and absence of power supply to some areas of the state. He sought the support of the National Assembly in ensuring some of the concerns get necessary budgetary attention.

Present at the meeting were Senator Bunmi Adetunbi; Senator Opeyemi Bamidele; Hon Femi Bamisile; Hon Yemi Adaramodu; Hon Wunmi Ogunlola, Hon Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Hon Femi Bamisile and Hon Sola Fatoba.

The Senate President who hailed the Governor for the visit,  pledged the support of the Upper legislative chamber for the Ekiti government's developmental efforts.

The Governor also held talks with the leadership of the House and Senate Committees on Works and power where he made strong case for comprehensive renovation of Federal roads in Ekiti and fixing of electricity issues in some parts of the state.

Earlier, the Governor in company with Senator Opeyemi Bamidele and Hon Femi Bamisile had held similar meeting with the Minister of Power, Engr Abubakar Aliyu, where the issue of upgrading of power infrastructure in the state, especially reconnection of some towns and communities to the national grid was tabled. 

Governor Oyebanji said he was satisfied with the level of understanding shown by the leadership of the National Assembly as well as Federal lawmakers from Ekiti State, adding that no stone would be left unturned  in the quest for support from relevant agencies and institutions for the socio-economic and infrastructure development of the state.

Thursday, October 27, 2022

STORY OF ADUBI WAR (OGUN ADUBI) OF 1918.

STORY OF ADUBI WAR (OGUN ADUBI) OF 1918.
...the Adubi war can never be forgotten in the history of the Egba people.
The Adubi war, also known as Ogun Adubi or the Egba Uprising, was a war that broke out between June and August 1918 as a result of the taxation system that was introduced in Abeokuta by the British colonial government Direct taxes were introduced by the colonial government along with existing forced labour obligations and fees which culminated in the revolts by the Egbas.

As of June 7 1918, the British government had already arrested 70 Egba chiefs and issued a decree that all rioters should lay down their arms, pay the taxes and obey the local leadership. More than thirty thousand (30,000) Egba natives went to war against the colonial government officials in Abeokuta, destroying railway and telegraph lines in the southern part of the territory.

Adubi war got its name from the Village head of Elere, Ige Adubi. Elere Adubi is presently a village near Itori, very close to Papalanto a town along Lagos Abeokuta road where there is still large cultivation of Sugar canes, in Ewekoro Local government of Ogun State. Awape (also known as Molashin) who was Ige Adubi’s deputy instigated the war. He was working with the British government and he revealed their plans on the Direct tax system to the Ige Adubi, the village head.

British government later jailed Awape for six months as punishment for his offence. 
About 600 people were killed in the Adubi war, including a European trading agent and a high Egba chief, Oba Osile. This incident led to the abolition of Abeokuta independence.

The Adubi war birthed a popular song which was re-composed by the legendary Afrobeats icon, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
It goes thus:
Bi e ba n gbo gbagada gbagada (band repeats) Bi e ba n gbo gbogodo gbogodo (band repeats) E ma ya s’otun, e ma ya s’osi (band repeats) Ile olowo n’oro ngba lo (band repeats) Ogun adubi s’oju re ja (band repeats) Ogun adubi le lopo lopo (band repeats) Iwo nikan n’odagba shoja mefa (band repeats) Oro o wo mo, o pada seyin (band repeats) Opada s’eyin, o wa n fi ewe bora (band repeats) Iya re nke lo bi ewure (band repeats) Baba re nke lo bi aparo (band repeats) Iwona n be lo bi igala (band repeats) Omi ireke l’en bu sebe (band repeats) L’en bu sebe, l’etun fin r’omo (band repeats). O o o oya o, eni omo wu, oya kalo o (band repeats) Oya o o, eni omo wu, oya kalo eh (band repeats) Oya o o, eni omo wu, oya kalo eh eh eh eh (band repeats) Oya o o, eni omo wu, oya kalo eh eh ye eh (band repeats).

The Adubi war can never be forgotten in the history of the Egba people.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

OJA ARIGIDI IN ISE-EKITI

OJA ARIGIDI IN ISE-EKITI 
....An ancient market that hold once in every year.
Oja Arigidi, is precisely located in Arigidi community, Ise-Ekiti. Oja Arigidi is one of the ancient market in the town. It's an ancient market that nobody can joke with, a market that come up once in a year people from other state participate, patronise and celebrate the culture of the town. Oja Arigidi is an open market that use to come up once in every year, in which the market will be opened for business (buying and selling) on the 1st week of next month November, 2022.

Ise Ekiti (Yoruba: Ìṣẹ̀-Èkìtì, also Ise) is a city in Ekiti State, Nigeria, It is the traditional home of Akinluaduse, also known as Akinluse by the inhabitants of the city. Akinluse was a great warrior in the ancient Oyo empire. Ise - Ekiti is the headquarters of the Ise/Orun Local Government Area, along with Orun. Ise ekiti is divided into three quarters namely; Oraye, Odo Ise and Erinwa. The Arinjale of Ise-Ekiti is Oba Ayodele Ajayi Aweloye II.
OJA ARIGIDI is a festival market where sellers and buyers have traditionally congregated and categories of unique shopping and sales, is an entertainment venue home street market that used to on for one day a year and it will remained unchanged forever by the power of the Ancestor 💯🙏.

Whenever the market is on no others market in the town must open that day and nobody must sell or buy in the road side, except you go to the market. 

God bless Ise-Ekiti, 
God bless Ekiti State. 
God bless Nigeria 🇳🇬 
I am Comr. Olamide Akinwumi James. 
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Monday, October 24, 2022

BRIEF HISTORY OF ONITSHA

BRIEF HISTORY OF ONITSHA
...It is a town in South East Nigeria famed for its commerce, education and religious centre that lies beside the Niger.
Onitsha Mmili was known as Ado N'Idu, it was founded by one of the sons of Chima, the founder of Issele-Uku kingdom in western Igboland. Chima, a prince of the ancient Benin kingdom emigrated, settled and founded what is now known as Issele-Uku in Aniocha North Local Government Area. The eldest son of Chima eventually emigrated across the Niger River to establish the Onitsha community. It is a town in South East Nigeria famed for its commerce, education and religious centre that lies beside the Niger.

Onitsha is the largest markets in West Africa, a center point where billions of naira are transacted every day.

Onitsha operates a traditional government headed by the Obi, the titular head of the town who is assisted by Ndi Ichie, titled red cap elders or chiefs. Among these are Ndi Ichie Ume, who are the First Class Chiefs. The Ndi Ichie are classified into six, namely: Onowu Iyasele, Ajie Ukadiugwu, Odu Osodi, Onya Ozoma, Ogene Onira and Owelle Osowa, with Onowu Iyasele as the traditional Prime Minister. There are also other Ndi Ichie, who are ranked second class, known as Ndi Okwa and third class, known as Ndi Ichie Okwareze. The Ndi Ichie serve as Council of Advisers to the Obi who solicits their advice in major decisions he takes in the Kingdom.

When the ruling Obi joins his ancestors, the Onowu Iyasele takes charge until a new Obi is enthroned.

Once a year in October the kingdom of Onitsha holds the Ofala Festival which coincides with the traditional New Yam festival held in many parts of Igboland. It is a way for the people of Onitsha to keep their culture alive and it has become a major event that draws visitors from far and wide to the city.

There are nine groups of Kindred, (Ebo Etenani), making up Onitsha Ado Community.

Onitsha traditionally consists of nine villages, otherwise known as Ebo Itenani. These are descendants of the progenitor Umuezechima comprising Isiokwe, Olosi, Umuezearoli, Okebunabo, Obikporo and Ogbeotu which claim origin from Igala in Kogi state, Awada (Ogbeozoma), Obamkpa comprising Umuasele, Iyiawu and Odoje Ndugbe and Odumegwu Gbuagu, Ubulu na Ikem, Ulutu, Ubene, Ogboli Eke, Obior and Ogbeotu. Within these groupings there are six administrative wards namely Okebunabo, Umuezearoli, Ogbeolu, Isiokwe na Ogboli Olosi, Obamkpa and Eke na Ubene.

The history of Onitsha began with the migration of its people from the Benin Empire towards the end of early part of the Sixteenth Century AD. The migration was as a result of a wave of unrest, war and displacement unleashed by the Islamic movement from North Africa.

It was during their passage through the outskirts of Ile-Ife that they acquired the name Onitsha - a corruption of the Yoruba word Orisha and Udo, the famous shrine worshipped by the people. As time went on, the combination of the two words, Onitsha for Orisha and Ado for Udo culminated in the present name , Onitsha Ado.

The people of Onitsha left the outskirts of Ile-Ife and resettled in the Benin Kingdom and soon established themselves as one of the clans in the Benin Kingdom exercising all the rights and privileges attached thereon.

As a result of a long process of acculturation in Benin, the Onitsha people jealously guarded their acquired rights particularly with regard to their revered Shrine Udo.

 It was suggested that the reason why the Onitsha people quarreled with Oba Esigie, (1404-1550), of Benin was because of the slight, the Oba gave their shrine-Udo. It was customary for newly installed Oba to pay homage to all important Shrines in the Benin Kingdom by slaughtering a cow in the shrines enclave. Oba Esigie failed to do this at the Onitsha people's Udo-Shrine, hence the quarrel.

It took the Onitsha people several years before they got to Obior and Ilah and finally crossed the River Niger and established Onitsha Ado. They stopped at several places in the then Mid-West now called Delta State, places like Agbor, Issele-Uku, etc. This explains the affinity with the inhabitants of Delta State like Ilah, Issele-Uku, Obbaamkpa, Onitsha-Olona, Onitsha Ugbo, Agbo, Obior, Onitsha Ukwu and so on.

After their arrival on the east bank (Onicha-mmili, "Onitsha-on-water"), the community gradually became a unitary kingdom, evolving from a loosely organized group of "royal" villages to encompass "non-royal" villages comprising Igala settlers, and the native Igbos to form a more centralized entity. 

Eze Aroli was apparently the first genuinely powerful Obi of Onitsha, the ruler of the city.

Onitsha slowly grew to become an important trading port for the Royal Niger Company in the mid-1850s following the abolition of slavery and with the development of the steam engine when Europeans were able to move into the hinterland.

Trade in palm kernels, palm oil, and other cash crops on the coast of Bight of Biafra increased around this river port in the 19th century.

In 1857 British palm oil traders established a permanent station in the city with Christian missionaries joining them, headed by the liberated African bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a Yoruba receptive) and Reverend John Taylor (an Igbo Recaptive).

In 1900 Onitsha became part of a British protectorate.The British colonial government and Christian missionaries penetrated most of Igboland to set up their administration, schools and churches through the river port at Onitsha.

Dennis Memorial Grammar School established by the Anglican Church Mission Society in 1925
More immigrants from the hinterland of Igboland were drawn to the emerging boom town as did the British traders who settled there in Onitsha, and coordinated the palm oil and cash crops trade.

In 1965, the Niger River Bridge was built across the Niger River to replace the ferry crossing. This has helped to grow trade routes with western Nigeria and created significant economic linkages between Onitsha and Benin City and Lagos particularly.

Source: Gossip House
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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Afuye’s Demise: Ekiti Has Lost A Political Unifier~ Adebomi.

Afuye’s Demise: Ekiti Has Lost A Political Unifier~ Adebomi. 
Chieftain  of the All Progressives Congress(APC) Captain Sunday Adebomi  has described the late speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Funminiyi Afuye  as a political icon who used his position to stabilise politics in Ekiti.

Adebomi, a former Governorship aspirant in Ekiti State while commisersting with the government and  people of Ekiti State over the death of the foremost lawmaker also prayed for the reposed of the deceased soul.

He noted that Ekiti Assembly, under the leadership of late Afuye had ensured that the State got the best legislations without necessarily compromising the integrity of the third arm of government.
He said, "The death of the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly Rt. Hon Funminiyi Afuye  came to me as a rude shock .The deceased was a prominent member of the Progressives family, and one of the few activists who fought for the enthronement of the democracy in Nigeria..
"Late Afuye, as the Speaker of the House ensured that Ekiti got best legislations on  gender and child’s rights. It is instructive to note that late Afuye did not allow unnecessary political  muscle flexing  in the assembly with the Executive as the house enjoyed smooth, cordial and productive relationship, he explained."

Adebomi therefore prayed that God Almighty  sound give the family the fortitude to bear the huge loss .

Saturday, October 22, 2022

Oyebanji holds town hall meetings over 2023 budget.

Oyebanji holds town hall meetings over 2023 budget.
…to prioritise security, power, roads.
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, has assured the people of the State that the 2023 budget will give adequate consideration for their basic needs while targeting all round development of the state.

He also said that the recently launched 30 years development plan of the State would be his working document.

The Governor stated this on Friday during his citizens’ engagement meetings held in the three senatorial districts of the state as part of preparation for the 2023 budget. He added that the town hall meetings had become an “annual ritual” since the first administration of former Governor Kayode Fayemi, to ensure community participation in budget preparation.

The town hall meetings which took place in Ikole (North senatorial district), Ode (South senatorial District) and Ado-Ekiti (Central), had in attendance top government officials, State and National Assembly members, council chairmen, traditional rulers, market women, artisans and other stakeholders. The meetings received suggestions and proposals from various communities on projects they want government to include in the 2023 budget.

Oyebanji at the meetings told the people that his administration was irrevocably committed to participatory and all-inclusive government and budgeting, adding that the purpose of the meeting was to interact with the representatives of various towns and communities to articulate their needs for inclusion in the 2023 budget.

The Governor, who noted that the requests of all the communities are similar, said his administration would address their concern about security. He also challenged them on the need to assist the security agencies in intelligence gathering by coming up with relevant information of suspicious movements or activities to enable them track down people with criminal tendencies.

“We should all be vigilant about what happens in our society. I agree we should step up our action on Amotekun and strengthen the security outfit, but Amotekun without intelligence is zero. He said.

Governor Oyebanji who noted that the various concerns of the people including electricity supply, potable water, rehabilitation of roads, renovation of schools building and others assured the people that the administration is already making efforts with relevant authorities to ensure that electricity supply is restored in some areas that have been without power supply for years.


On his effort to strengthen the feedback mechanism from the people, the Governor said his administration would establish an Ombudsman office where the people can supply government with useful information that would guide government in its decision-making process.
On road rehabilitation, the Governor assured the people that the RAAMP 1000km rural road project is still in the pipeline and would commence immediately after the rainy season. He explained that all rural roads fall under the purview of the programme, which is in partnership with the World Bank.


While assuring Ekiti people that his administration would fulfil his electoral promise of bringing more development to the grassroots, Oyebanji appealed for their support to enable him achieve the lofty goals.

“All the requests made by all the communities are related and what we will do is to prioritize your requests because what is paramount in the heart of one community is different from that of the other community. The reason we are doing this is because the government belongs to you and you know your basic needs even though government may not be able to do all, but we would address the basic ones.

“As a responsible government, we are of the firm belief that citizens’ participation in budgeting process enables ownership and efficient service delivery. It also gives meaning to the popular definition of democracy by Abraham Lincoln which describes democracy “as government of the people by the people and for the people”. For us, we want to govern with the people and not for them. You will always be part of our decision making and your voice will always be heard.

“This meeting is not only a personal commitment to participatory budgeting, it is also in conformity with the global best practices in budgeting. It is also one of the indicatory mileage of accountability requirements of the tripartite programme called: State Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS) programme.

“Our annual Budget preparation process shall be bottom-up, whereby the needs and interest of the people shall be articulated. The involvement of the citizens in the Budget preparation is geared towards effective utilization of public funds based on the needs of the people. He noted.

The representatives of the communities comprising the traditional rulers and community leaders, after presenting their various demands, also commended the Governor for sustaining the citizens engagement programme aimed at effective budgeting.

ARINJALE 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗢𝗝𝗨𝗔𝗪𝗢

ARINJALE 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗢𝗝𝗨𝗔𝗪𝗢
...calls him a forthright man ready to deliver. 
The Arinjale of Ise Ekiti, His Royal  Majesty, Oba Dr. David Adetunji Ajayi has described Air Vice Marshal Rufus Adeniyi Ojuawo as a straightforward, honest, no nonsense politician who is not given to deception and doublespeak. 

Oba Ajayi made the remarks Saturday at this year's annual Ojoaduse celebration where AVM Ojuawo was given an award of excellence in community service.

The monarch admonished Ise indigenes not to belabour AVM Ojuawo, who is the APC candidate for the House of Representatives in Ekiti South Federal Constituency 1, with frivolous monetary requests in his bid to represent the people at the green chamber.

 'We all know AVM Ojuawo as a straightforward man who would not lie or promise what he cannot deliver. Don't go to him and be asking for money but let him bring to us dividends of democracy that will bring development to our community' Oba Ajayi said.

He called on the retired Air Vice Marshal to continue to toe the path of honour and integrity he has always been known for in and out of service.

Oba Ajayi also admonished youths in the community to embrace vocational training in order to improve their lot and be useful to the society.

RAO MEDIA TEAM