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Press OAU New Letter News Bulletin OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY ILE-IFE, NIGERIA Issue No. 377 Download at: bulletin.oauife.edu.ng Date: Monday, 20th August, 2018 OAU UNIQUENESS, SACROSANCT – GOVERNOR AMOSUN The Governor also thanked the management of OAU for deeming it fit to honour Professor Wole Soyinka, whom he described as a world citizen. He pledged the total support of his administration for whatever OAU was contemplating in terms of immortalizing the first Africans Nobel Laureate in Literature. Governor Amosun stated that Professor Soyinka has not only made indelible marks in his chosen career, he is also a research material for students who seek higher knowledge in Arts and Culture, describing Soyinka as a living history and continuous reference in ancient and contemporary drama and literature. Earlier, the Vice-Chancellor of OAU, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, has appreciated Governor Amosun for “flooding his cabinet with OAU graduate explaining why his administration is recording grandiloquent success on a daily basis” Professor Ogunbodede then informed the Governor that OAU has perfected plans to transform Soyinka’s The Governor of Ogun State, campus house, when he was lecturing in Senator Ibikunle Amosun has described OAU, to a museum where antiquities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, arts and culture will be kept so that future as a very unique institution of higher generation will know who Wole Soyinka learning which combines academic is and his literary exploits. The Vice- excellence with cultural juvenation. Chancellor who commended Governor Governor Amosun stated this when Amosun for being the number one the Vice-Chancellor of OAU, Professor Governor promoting African values, Eyitope Ogunbodede paid him a culture and tradition, thanked Ogun State courtesy visit in his office, at Oke-Ilewo, for the immense contributions of her Abeokuta. indigenes in making OAU a first class He lauded the Federal Government university, describing people like Chief for expectedly and rewardingly naming a Obafemi Awolowo and Professor Wole first class, world rated university after a Soyinka, among others as good pillars renowned political giant who was an upon whom the OAU rests. indigene of Ogun State. SOYINKA FLAGS OFF IFE FESTIVAL OF FOOD, IDENTITY Vice-Chancellor, Professor Eyitope promoting culture and tourism in the state adding Ogunbodede, said that the that the Department of Culture had to be changed to University since inception, has Ministry of Culture and Tourism to accommodate been living up to its motto: “For the new vision of the government among which Learning and Culture” by were the expansion and revamping initiative in the promoting and preserving African local adire production industry; restoration of cultural values. Olumo Rock as a Tourist Centre Bilikisu Osugbo He added that he is very Shrine, among others. delighted to be the Chief Host of While disclosing that the State Government had this festival holding ten (10) years similarly invested heavily in agriculture, especially after the last edition held in 2008, in the cultivation of “ofada rice”, Chief Onanuga reiterating that the aim of the enjoined all-and-sundry to make ofada rice their festival is to foster interrelationship right choice, saying that the health benefits of ofada b e t w e e n m e m b e r s o f t h e rice is far better than those of the imported brands of community and the generality of rice. Africans. She hinted further that the Ogun State In his words, “this food festival government in line with the Federal Government’s Nobel Laureate, Emeritus Professor Wole will show case our rich diversity in Nigerian cuisine desire to end the nation’s excessive and dangerous Soyinka, flagged off the Ife Festival 2018, tagged and delicacies thereby creating awareness on dependence on oil, has put thousands of parboiled “Festival of Food and Identity, symbolically slicing a Nigeria’s rich food culture and our capacity to Nerica Mitres rice under cultivation, maintaining tuber of roasted yam, even as he described the survive as a people through the adoption, that Ogun State is one of the contributors to the festival as unique and critical, inspired by deep presentation of relevant food and material culture”. strategic grains reserve of the Federal Government. religious convergence, homogeneity and Also, the Ogun State helmsman, Governor “Our administration will always continue to support conference which the Ife Civilization represents. Ibikunle Amosun, represented by his Deputy, Dr. all initiatives on national food security and The festival, packaged by the Institute of Yetunde Onanuga, appreciated the University for sustainability”, Onanuga stressed. Cultural Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- the honour done to the literary giant and Nigeria’s Similarly, President Paul Kigame of the Republic Ife was aimed at celebrating the African Culture foremost radical socio-political critic, Professor of Rwanda, who was represented by the within a medley of traditional and contemporary Wole Soyinka, by converting the apartment he lived Commissioner for Agriculture and Animal performances, dance, music, theatre, adult and while in the services of the University to a museum Resources, Dr. Geraldime Mukeshimana, called on children’s cooking competition, food tasting, for his works and his arts collections. African people to jettison foreign food which are symposium, art and photo exhibitions. The Ogun Deputy Governor said that the often associated with diseases like obesity, In his address at the opening ceremony, the Ibikunle Amosun – administration has been hypertension and diabetes among others. 1 T h e R w a n d a n whom she s food. President’s emissary said value Earlier while delivering his welcome address, who said that people their food, the Director of the OAU Institute of Cultural Studies, are living in the era of language Dr. Ayoh Omidire appreciated all who graced the f o o d p r o d u c t i o n , a n d op ening ceremony of the festival, stating that each stated that God, in His c u l t u r e , tribe and ethic group has food peculiar to them as wisdom, has provided c h a r g i n g part of their identity. various African foods them to do He re-echoed the submissions of other for the nourishment of away with speakers by advising that all should t h e b o d y u n d e r f o r e i g n discountenance fast food garnished with different d i ff e r e n t c l i m a t i c f o o d s easonings known to have adverse effects on conditions”. consumpti health. Dr. Mukeshimana o n i n Omidire challenged all to always patronise local admonished other favour of food that are nutritious, stressing that the Yoruba African countries to t h e i r race has the best food, culture and tradition. emulate Rwandans, indigenou BAYELSA GOVERNOR TALKS RESTRUCTURING AT OAU, SAYS IT IS PANACEA FOR PEACE, DEVELOPMENT The aspiration to have a peaceful and expressed a wish to be an alumnus of the “Great Ife”, property and the needless bloodletting that have developed Nigerian-state will remain a mirage he saluted the foresightedness of the founding characterized the country in recent times, noting unless and until there is a genuine, pragmatic and fathers of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. that Hon. Seriake Dickson is eminently qualified to concerted effort to restructure the country such that The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Eyitope offer pragmatic ideas given his rich background as all-and-sundry will have a sense of belonging, thus Ogunbodede in his speech at the occasion stated former police officer, a legal practitioner and a two eliminating the perennial crises of mutual trust and that the lecture is an opportunity for the University to term Governor. He commended the Bayelsa State confidence that have pushed the country to the partake in the task of national re-engineering and re- Governor for his contributions to the development of brink of oblivion. assessment of Nigerian politics and development, education in the country, submitting that OAU would This observation was made by the Executive saying the management of the institution is partner with him on advancement of education in Governor of Bayelsa State, Honourable Nigeria. Seriake Dickson, while speaking at the Earlier on in his welcome address, Faculty Distinguished Guest Lecture of the Dean, Faculty of Arts, Professor Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo Gbemisola Adeoti stated that the Faculty University, Ile-Ife. He opined that Distinguished Guest Lecture has restructuring is a call for constitutional garnered so much attention and goodwill reforms, an amendment of the laws of within and outside the University and it the country to guarantee a more stable has provided a capacious platform for and inclusive country and to return to the reflecting on contemporary issues original founding principles of the nation, through the intellectual standpoint of adding that it is the returning of the humanity. He further said that the country to federalism as agreed to by the Faculty has been generating knowledge founding fathers of our country where all on those factors that are inhibiting federating units of the country will be development in the country and has also operating and developing at their own been seeking solutions to them while pace. rubbing minds with like-minds and in line Governor Dickson, whose mother with this objective, the lecture is quite hails from the Fidipote Ruling family at timely, relevant, and of essence with its Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, noted that title, “Restructuring and the search for a restructuring does not mean secession delighted to host the lecture and to contribute to the productive Nigeria”. but citizens freely talking and having conversations raging issue of restructuring.
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