World Omoluabi Day Festival & Omoluabi Royal Icon (ORI) Awards: Celebration of Omoluabi Hall of Fame
The pervasive nature of immorality today in our society is becoming increasingly unbelievable, hence the need to promote our over two decade’s(since 18th March, 1999, while Omoluabi Day Festival and Omoluabi Royal Icon Awards was remodelled four years ago).
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vision to use the opportunity of the most prestigious and biggest Festival in Yoruba history: Annual World Omoluabi Day Festival to honour distinguished Yoruba Sons and Daughters, as well as corporate organizations globally with the conferment and presentation of the prestigious Omoluabi Royal Icon Awards: A Golden Ori Olokun Plaque, Opa Ase, Certificate of Award, Omoluabi Idasa, Omoluabi Badge and Omoluabi lapel pin(Our brand identity and intellectual property).
This specifically aimed at celebrating and appreciating the uncommon integrity, hardwork, intelligence, perseverance spirit, intellectual acumen and prowess, landmark achievements and unquantifiable commitments of selected Omoluabi Pataki Oodua, organizations and concerned stakeholders in our today’s society.
The World Omoluabi Day Festival is continually committed towards raising awareness campaign against rampant pervasive society vices, ritualism, cybercrime, teenage sex: effects and way out, to ensure adequate orientation on the negative consequences of these delinquent actions involving some of our kids and youths even the eldey are not insulated today, wherein drugs, sex, money rituals are now common trending news, regrettably everyone seems unconcerned.
However, as an individual and organisation we are most committed towards building a better society free of this anomalies.
Omoluabi Royal Icon Awards is done in honour of our great father and Grand Royal Patron, Arole Oduduwa Olofin Adimula, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, The Ooni of Ife, whose unquantifiable commitments and landmark in correcting the societal ills and support for good vision is second to none, particularly in reviving the Omoluabi ethos that is fast eroding into oblivion in our today’s society.
We believe Kabiyesi’s frontal partnership alongside individual, government (particularly Ministry of Education and Educational Support NGO and Agencies)
and corporate organization’s supports in ensuring our Omoluabi message of orientation gets to all places in Yoruba Land, Nigeria and Diaspora, will go along way to tackle and correct this “double jeopardy”.
We are currently inundated with horrible daily news of ritual killings, kidnappings, cultism, teenage sex, sexual abuse, domestic violence, prostitution and Internet Fraud and scam popularly called Yahoo Yahoo or most gruesome is Yahooplus (Ritualism).
We cannot overemphasised the lost grounds and how far this endemic cancerous lack of Omoluabi ethos has destroyed our renowned good behavioural conducts and attitudinal values, morals and spirit of hardwork in Yoruba Land(ile Kaaro Oojire) and by extension Nigeria at large.
Omoluabi is a symbology and descriptive way of identifying a true born good character of hardwork, perseverance integrity and intellectual acumen filled with divine wisdom, this are common sense and attitudes Yoruba are respected for in our environment in the past, regrettably now lacking in our today’s society.
Most unfortunately, we have lost lots of our youths and children to drug abuse, early sex, ritualistic tendencies, prostitution and juvenile delinquency traits to mention a few.
Our clarion call is to all Yoruba Leaders, parents, teachers and government at all levels to collectively take the bull by the horn and Join us on this journey for the promotion of a total rebirth of Omoluabi (God’s Own Begotten Child) virtues in our society.
We are pleased to inform that our organisation with the kind permission of His Imperial Majesty, Arole Oduduwa Olofin Adimula Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja11, The Ooni of Ife has granted us every 1st of May to celebrate the Annual World Omoluabi Day Festivals and Omoluabi Royal Icon (ORI) Awards, in Ile-Ife, Osun State, while we are using this opportunity to invite you to join us in Ile-Ife on 1st May.
While we have also established Omoluabi School Club in all our Primary and Secondary schools in the entire Yoruba Land and by extension Nigeria at large, we hope to launch in Ondo, Osun , Ekiti, Oyo, Ogun and Lagos soon before the end of this year.
We are demanding that the Government at all levels needs to do more and wake up to its responsibility of total war against indiscipline(Kick Against Indiscipline-KAI), rampant pervasive minor and teenage sex
and ritual killings cum terrorism.
The only way forward is for all of us to join our hands together to build our heritage respectively.
We must imbibe the ethos of love, hardwork, integrity and build confidence in our present generations of Youths before its too late.
Yoruba Ni Mi, Omo K’aro Ojire.
Aare Barr Oladotun Hassan,
Global President, Yoruba Council Worldwide (Igbimo Apapo Yoruba Lagbaye).
08033931229. dotunhassan@yahoo.com.
