Olokun festival will boost tourism development, cultural integration –Adams
Adams said this on Sunday in Lagos at a news conference organised to announce programmes earmarked for the 13th edition of the festival.
Adams, who is also the initiator of Olokun Festival,said that the ceremony was mainly to showcase the cultural values and tradition of the Yoruba.
The coordinator said the celebration had provided an opportunity for prominent people and dignitaries to come to Nigeria from every part of the world.
“Tourists and adventurers annually come from across the globe to Nigeria to witness and see for themselves the beauty inherent in the Yoruba culture.
“The reason for celebrating Olokun festival annually is borne out of our desire to project the Yoruba culture to the world.
“As a foremost institution poised to promote the Yoruba culture, Olokun Festival Foundation, under my leadership, is determined to set the pace for cultural integration and tourism development in Nigeria.
“Nigeria is a blessed nation, but we can only make lasting impact on the world if we appreciate our culture and make our tourist sites attractive to the world,” Adams said.
He noted that the celebration was an avenue for people to see the beauty of the Yoruba’s abandoned culture and “how we can regain our lost glory through the festival”.
He assured that 2015 Olokun celebration would give the best pastime for participants at home as well as others from other parts of the world.
“It is my belief that as we roll out the drums to celebrate this year’s Olokun festival, it will open a new chapter of progress in the annals of this country.
“It will also create a window of opportunities for Nigerians who share the same dream of a great nation as we do,” Adams Said.
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Celebrating satan the devil lucifer in Nigeria is a culture??
People that will come to such cultural festival will be only secret cults members,homosexuals,paedophiles,witches and wizards.
You people want to invite foreign demons into Nigeria or what??
Does Nigeria not have enough problems already??
Jehovah God Almighty said that no other gods should be worshipped in any form or manner.
The only one who deserves our praise and worship in all form and manner is
Jehovah God Almighty
What do you mean? Jehovah is a Jewish god, the way alah is an Arab god . Olokun is a Yoruba god and people must come for prigrimemage every year the way they go to Saudi and Isreal. Don’t under rate your god , the jews and the Arabs only polished and packaged their gods to the admiration of all. Polish your Olokun, aye lala, sango etc, tell the world that these are the gods that created heaven and earth, tell them many fanciful things about these gods and see how much money you will make from it. Arabs deceiving people since 0017bc
You almost convinced me hahahaha.
Do you mean that sango and olokun and sango which are the benin and yoruba gods .Are they also the BREATH OF LIFE??
I know that the earliest and first way of worshipping God Almighty was PAGANISM which was sacrificing animals and burning of farm produce so that the sweet smell can ascend into heaven(example is CAIN AND ABEL,ABRAHAM SACRIFICING THE LAMB INSTEAD OF ISAAC).
Another point,I will like to make is a about the Jews.
Being Jewish means coming from the house of Judah.
Judah the first born of Jacob now Israel.
The aborigine Jewish people are also your’s and my forefathers.
Till this day,pure Jewish people are Blacks and some light skin colors called white.
I did talk about the Jews because you mentioned the Jews calling their God as Jehovah.
We blacks are the aborigine Jews.
Now,what is the name of the Almighty Ominipotent,scient and present who created the Heavens,the Earth and Mankind???
WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT HOMOSEXUALS WHILE YOU ARE A FORNICATOR. CAN YOU DENY YOU HAVE NOT COMMITTED FORNICATION IN YOUR LIFETIME. MUMU
If you are homosexual,you can get angry but if you are not,then read my comment and move on
if YOU A FORNICATOR DONT GET ANGRY, AS FORNICATION AND GAYISM ARE ONE THING ACCORDING TO BIBLE. REMOVE YOUR OWN SEXUAL IMMORALITY WHICH YOU CALL LOVE AFFAIR BEFORE TALKING ABOUT GAYS.
What is your problem this human being??Are you homosexual??
STOP RESPONDING TO MY COMMENT.
Many people just wrote me complaining about you and your defense of homosexuals.
There is what we call ADAM AND EVE.
God intended Men to sleep with women and bear children.
Two men can NEVER bear children.
Without the mating of a man and woman,this world would have never been occupied by human beings.
And God created Adam and saw that he was lonely.
God made man sleep and created a woman for him to be his partner.
God then commanded man and woman to go and multiply and inhabit the earth.
Anything contrary to the LAW OF NATURE is evil and satanic.
Now,NEVER EVER RESPOND TO MY COMMENTS AGAIN
PIG STOP WRITING RUBBISH HERE
You are sick.I tthink that the way you get angry about homosexuality when condemned shows you are one of them.I am not here to write what you will like to hear but say it as it is.
The pope visited the woman in America who refuse to issue marriage certificates to gay people.Go and fight with the pope and with the woman.
Four days ago,a polish priest declared to the catholic church that he was gay.He was immediately expelled from the church by the pope.Go and fight for him.
Another bishop said that homosexuality is a sickness.He is european.Go and fight with him.
A british scientist is currently studying what component is affected in the brain to make a man have urge toward another man like him.
Go and beat him up.
Never read or respond to my comment again.Those who call people pigs are themselves already pigs
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