35 Tourists And Hikers From Across Nigeria Had Awesome Experience As They Toured Around Ikogosi and Ipole-Iloro Ekiti.

-


   Over two dozen staff from south west zone of the  Union Bank Nigeria toured around Ikogosi and  Ipole-Iloro Ekiti on 11th ,12th & 13th of December, 2020 for their annual team bonding/vacation. It was a great experience as other tourists and hikers from accross Nigeria joined the hike to the site of the first airplane crash site in Africa located in Ikogosi-Ekiti, a town in Ekiti State.

The one hour hike from the Ikogosi Warm Springs Resort will never be termed an hyperbole as it was soul feeding; leaving the energized tourists as victims of palpable excitement and renewed commitment to humanity. This was evident in the clamour and observance of a  minute silence for the selfless pilot and soldiers who choose to rather crash in a thick forest than cause the extinction of a whole village. In addition, prayers were said for the souls of the casualties. 


Mr. Adefemi Oluwatobi Oje, the tour guide, recounted the historic accounts passed onby Late Chief Rufus Oluwatuyi Oje, the demised 'Ajalemo of Okelele', Ikogosi. In his words, "the crashed airplane was a German war plane carrying military supplies exempting ammunitions in 1942 and 5 soldiers on board." The tourists also visited the  Arinta waterfalls in Ipole Iloro-Ekiti and the world class tourism destination in the world, Ikogosi Warm Spring.

"It was an awesome and adventurous experience! Akinteriwa Temitope, Director MyDreamTour commented.


Thanks to Union Bank southwest and MyDreamTour for choosing Ekiti-State for their yearly team bonding/vacation. In the same vein, Ògbéni Babájídé Fájuyi, the President of Yoruba Tourism Club and a strategist at Lync Tourism Consultant called on the government to provide the presence of the newly security outfit Amotekun in the area as there's already a rush for the destination this season.


more pictures














Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Olójó Festival 2024

-
Image
 The Olojo Festival is an ancient festival celebrated annually in Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. It is one of the popular festivals in the Yoruba land, and was once described by Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi as a festival that celebrates the Black race all over the world. The Yoruba word 'Olojo' means 'The Day Of The First Dawn' that describes the grateful heart of man towards God's creation and the existence of Human. The Olojo Festival is a culture festival in the calendar of the Ile-Ife, Osun State which is located in the Southwestern part of Nigeria. It is the celebration of the remembrance of “Ogun”, god of Iron, who is believed to be the first son of Oduduwa, progenitor of the Yoruba people. The festival is held annually. It is one of the biggest festival on the culture calendar of lle-Ife. On this day, the Ooni (king of Ife) appears after seven days of seclusion and denial, communing with the ancestors and praying for his people. This is to make him pure and ensure
Read more

The Intersection of Culture, Arts And Inclusion for Sustainable Development

-
Image
We often refer to the sensitive theme of Inclusion and Diversity even though, used interchangeably.  Perhaps we can justify the cliche of social justice and equity to score a point, despite populist notion that this contraption is overlooked and misunderstood. The  discourse and treatment of diversity and inclusion only began to gain significant traction during the 'Paris Gender and Equality'  Convention Agreement in Copenhagen. The policy thrust for socio- cultural change is a buzzword that was eventually adopted within the periscope of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) The approach introduced by various  development experts, placed intrinsic value upon the need to streamline this complex discourse. It is envisaged  that with passage of time, larger societies would  begin to embrace and grapple with the critical challenges of  implementing the core ethos of Inclusion and Diversity, particularly for developing countries.  Dissecting empirical evidence of the essence
Read more

Ekiti Gastronomic vibes part 1

-
Image
  Ado-Ekiti sunday morning Iyan vibe is a evolving cultural concept with a gastronomic value. i grew up in Ado-Ekiti to understand that owanbe parties happens on saturday nights later saturday afternoon/evening and Ado-Ekiti been the capital of Ekiti-State the christian population dominates so sunday mornings are always 80 percent of church activities so you scarcely find a buka where food is sold...... this informed some set of people as the scarcity of food on sunday mornings continued, the cache to my observation with the people that came for the owambes were majorly not living here, even the other part guests living here will be kinda tired to want to cook on sunday mornings, but i trust some houses will still do. this write up makes me remember the smell of Rice chicken and dodo, listening to some old jams in my grandpa's house after church. Now, the sunday morning food scarcity has systematically created a culture in Ado-Ekiti now making iyan an available food in almost every
Read more