FLASHBACK: 2013 Oodua World Childrens' Day
Over 80 Monarchs Converge on Osun for Oodua World Childrens Day*As Ooni, Alaafin, Others Laud Aregbesola's Landmark Achievements
More than fifty traditional rulers drawn from various Yoruba-speaking town and cities in Africa on Monday converged in Osogbo, the Osun capital for a unique celebration of the Oodua World Children Day.
The Oodua World Children Day is Osun's initiative at pulling children from all Yoruba Speaking communities together with a view to reviving the cultural values of the Yoruba race in the younger ones.
The Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said at the event that the Yoruba cultural integration can only be meaningful if the children, who would carry on the culture are properly socialised into it, along with the inculcation of its underpinning values.
His address titled "Towards Global Yoruba Integration", was delivered at the Osogbo City stadium, Osogbo where the colourful event held.
In attendance at the occasion to commemorate Children's Day are eminent Yoruba personalities, and children, from the Yoruba indigenous parts of Nigeria comprising Ekiti (100); Ondo (83); Ogun(100); Oyo(100); Lagos(100); Kwara(50); Kogi(50); Edo(25) and Delta States, as well as West African countries of Benin, Togo, Ghana and Sierra Leone; South American countries of Brazil, Argentina and Colombia; Cuba; Caribbean; and the United States.
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