Festivals

Egbe Bobasete Storms 2025 Ojude Oba Festival With Glamour, Steeze

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1 year ago

June 14, 2025

Egbe Bobasete storms festival with stunning fashion, music and pageantry at 2025 Ojude Oba, leaving spectators in awe of their cultural brilliance.

Egbe Bobasete storms festival in grand style at the 2025 Ojude Oba celebration in Ijebu Ode, dazzling the crowd with glamour, unity and cultural elegance.

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The revered social-age group drew admiration from spectators and cultural enthusiasts alike, turning heads with their colourful attire, synchronised choreography and spirited chants. Their arrival, marked by vibrant music and regal procession, added energy to the already vibrant atmosphere that defined this year’s festival.

This year’s Ojude Oba, one of Nigeria’s most cherished cultural gatherings, saw thousands gather at the forecourt of the Awujale’s palace to honour tradition, community and royalty. Among numerous age groups, Egbe Bobasete stood out, commanding attention with their poise and coordinated display.

Observers praised their presentation as one of the festival’s most outstanding.

“Egbe Bobasete brought a rare mix of class and authenticity,” said a local cultural commentator. “They are not just an age group, they are a cultural movement.”

Their participation reinforced the festival’s ethos of unity in diversity, as sons and daughters of Ijebuland at home and in the diaspora converged to pay homage to their monarch, Oba Sikiru Adetona, who remains a symbol of tradition and continuity.

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OLOJO….Ile Ife’s September Gift To Culture

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1 day ago

October 5, 2026

Mariam Balogun

By Halima Adaba,

It was a featubal if the people. It was for the anciebt town of Ile Ife, which the Yoruba race refards as the Source.

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And ut was a festivsl for the King, Arole Oduduwa, Oonirisa, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II.

And so between September 24 and 28th 2026, the annual featuval dazzjed in all its white glory.

Tge Monarch paid the traditional ancestral homage and offered propitiation as part of the sacred rites of the Olojo Festival.
It was a powerful expression of Yoruba heritage, spirituality, and enduring tradition.

Call it a collection of beautiful moments, faces, colours and cultural expressions.

Every frame tells a story.

Every face carries the energy.

Every moment keeps the heritage alive.

Undoubtedly one of the most sacred cultural celebrations in Ilé-Ifẹ̀. It marked a day associated with creation, thanksgiving, ancestral heritage, and the sacred appearance of the Ooni of Ife wearing the revered Aàrẹ crown.

There were also the devotees of the famed god of thunder – Sàngó who were hardly conspicuous at the festival.

Many other traditional groups came out with candor, showing a powerful expression of Yoruba cultural identity, spiritual devotion, and respect for the ancient traditions of Ilé-Ifẹ̀.

Devotees of Sàngó bekieved the ‘appearance’ of the god of thunder on Seotember 26th could be understood as a symbolic meeting of ancestral heritage, spiritual devotion, and the celebration of creation.

It was a moment when the sounds of drums, chants, and traditional praise poetry brought the history of the Yoruba people to life.

Although Olojo is closely associated with Ogun, the god of iron, and the sacred traditions of Ile-Ife, the presence of Sàngó devotees reflected the rich diversity of Yoruba spiritual heritage.

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As a participant enthused at the festival, “To witness Sàngó Olúkòso emerge on Olojo Festival day is to witness a living expression of history, identity, and ancestral pride.”