Yoruba Council Worldwide bestows icon award on penpushing media founder
The Yoruba Council Worldwide has bestowed royal icon award on founder of Penpushing Media, Prince Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji , an event scheduled as part of activities marking the 5th Annual World Omoluabi Day Festival.
Penpushing reports that the ceremony held on Monday, May 1, 2023 at the National Art Theater, Iganmu, Lagos State has the royal authority and blessing of the grand patron of council, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, as well as support of African Arts Civilization.
The colourful and well attended ceremony with other number of awardees, in same vein, received support of Lagos State Government, National Arts Thearte, National Council of Arts, National Troupe of Nigeria, Centre for Black, critical stakeholders in the tourism, arts and culture industry in Nigeria.
Penpushing reports that the choice of the founder and journalist followed acknowledgement on his landmark achievements, said to deserve due recognition of his vision and noble goals in line with the council’s guiding principles
The 5th edition of the ceremony has the theme, ’Yoruba Indigenization: Harnessing Nigeria’s Harmonious Socio-Economic Development ‘, which was especially aimed at promoting the Yoruba Omoluabi identity, principles and ethos in Yorubaland and by extension Nigeria through robust synergy of purpose
Penpushing also reports that President, Yoruba Council Worldwide, Aare Oba Oladotun Hassan in his welcome speech said the historical event will showcase the true Yoruba Omoluabi identity, aesthetic arts and cultural heritage ranging from dance, music, ewi, traditional festivals from various towns and villages.
The President added that the council shall honour and add to its highly referred Omoluabi Hall of Fame through the conferment of the prestigious highest award in Yorubaland; Omoluabi Royal Icon Awards and other events.
‘The Omoluabi Festival remains the annual Yoruba global day celebration of our true identity and existence as approved and endorsed by our father, your father and my own father, Arole Oduduwa Olofin Adimula, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi CFR Ojaja 11’ , he stated
‘Ooni of Ife, alongside our referred encyclopedia of wisdom and knowledge, particularly in Yorubaland, who has joined his ancestors in the great beyond, the immediate Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Atanda Olayiwola Adeyemi 111, Iku Baba Yeye 1st of blessed memory, with the grand support received from all Obas in Yorubaland.
‘We are pleased to use the opportunity of today’s event to acknowledge the importance of the spirit of Isokan: unity, peace and progressive development in Yorubaland, and Nigeria at large’, the President emphasised.
‘We implore our government at all levels to prioritize education as a pivot of our freedom and mainstay of our economic development as an emerging first world nation, with the declaration of 30% budgetary allocation to the education sector at all levels in Yorubaand which must be imbibed into our constitution at the federal level too, precipitating the launching of the Yoruba Education Trust Fund today aimed at catering for the less privileged out of school youths and girl child, while ensuring adequate infrastructural facility is sustainable in Yorubaland, because this is what the late sage Chief Obafemi Awolowo laid as our pedestal of hope and excellence, and the Yoruba Council Worldwide is prepared to champion this noble vision and cause’.
‘We equally advocate for the training and promotion of OMOLUABI identity as from today all of us shall use OMOLUABI as our prefix before our writing of mentioning our names, because this is our pride and identity of resilience, hardwork, integrity, honour and God giving wisdom’.
‘We hope to promote OMOLUABI School Club in all our primary and secondary schools, while we have successfully established Yoruba Council Worldwide with other affiliate bodies to it ranging from the Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide, Women, Students, Professionals, Artisans, Civil Servants, Physically Challenged, Peace and Reconciliation Commission and thousands of affiliated groups and organizations globally’.
‘We implore the establishment of the Southwest Agricultural Economic Development Zone program in Yoruba Land and Nigeria, as part of measure to ensure adequate food security. Our local security must be empowered and truly funded hence the need to establish the Folumo Volunteer Groups under the auspices of the Southwest Joint Security Surveillance Network Team through our security votes money and donations from well-meaning Nigerians because security is key to our Economic Development.
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