Sponsor of the renowned Ojude Oba festival and telecommunications giants, Globacom, says it plans to host a spectacular music show to spice up the annual cultural fiesta.
The digital solutions company said Fuji superstar, Abass Obesere, and Teni Apata will be on the bandstand as the Festival begins today in the ancient town of Ijebu Ode, Ogun State. Popular Comedian Bash will also entertain guests with rib-cracking jokes. The music show is scheduled to hold at the Equity Resort along Erunwon Road, Ijebu Ode.
There will also be a beauty pageant for Ijebu-born ladies to compete for the “Miss Ojude Oba” crown, Globacom said, adding that competitors in the pageant have to be indigenes of Ijebuland as well as students or graduates of any institution of higher learning within Ijebuland.
The company further disclosed that an age grade contest, popularly known as “Regberegbe” is equally slated for the grand finale of the festival. The best dressed age grade in the male and female categories will win N500,000, while the first and second runners-up will go home with N300, 000 and N200,000 each.
Globacom will also reward the town’s different horse-riding families who display dexterity and unusual skills on their horses with N300,000 for the winner and N200,000 and N100,000 for the first and second runners-up respectively.
The festival is a gathering of sons and daughters of the land where obeisance is paid to the paramount ruler, the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba (Dr.) Sikiru Kayode Adetona. Globacom’s sponsorship of the event began 16 years ago, and the company has raised the bar of the ancient festival to make it a delight to tourists within Nigeria and abroad.
