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Benefits of Swimming in Ikogosi warm spring swimming pool.

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  Ikogosi warm spring swimming pool assists in relaxing muscles and increasing blood flow to injured areas. Patients who experience muscle spasms, back pain, arthritis and fibromyalgia find this aspect of Aquatic Therapy especially therapeutic.  Research suggested that the warm spring has a temperature of about 70 º C at the source and 37 º C at the confluence.   Another unique attribute of the spring is its popularly-acclaimed therapeutic efficacy. Many believe, although this largely still remains to be scientifically proven, that the water has some kind of therapy for the aching human body. It is therefore not unusual to see tourists and many other visitors collecting the spring into containers of various sizes, either carrying them on their heads or putting such in the booths of their vehicles as they head away. Quite a large volume of tourists to the Ikogosi Wonder take advantage of the large quantum of warm water pooled up for swimming purposes by the Resort. [https://en.wikipedia

Osogbo Monarch Unveils Dates for 2021 Osun Osogbo Festival.

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The Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Oyetunji The Ataoja of Osogbo land, His Royal Majesty, Oba Jimoh, Oyetunji (Olaonipekun Larooye II) has announced dates for the activities lined up to mark the 2021 edition of the Osun Osogbo Festival; an over 600 year old international heritage cultural tourism event celebrated as the annual sacrifice to the Osun River Goddess. A statement released by the Managing Consultant to the Osun Osogbo Festival, Toye Arulogun, on Monday said that the Ataoja of Osogboland has announced that the two week long festival will commence on Monday the 2nd of August 2021 with the traditional cleansing of the town called ‘Iwopopo’, which is followed in three days by the lighting of the 500-year-old sixteen-point lamp called ‘Ina Olojumerindinlogun’. The statement further disclosed that Monday 9th August 2021 is scheduled for ‘Iboriade’, a unique assemblage and display of the crowns of the past Ataojas of Osogbo, for blessings, explaining that this event would be led by th