Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will today lead prominent Yoruba monarchs, including the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, and Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, to launch Yoruba World Centre in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

The project’s visioner, Chief Alao Adedayo, publisher of Alaroye newspaper, who made the disclosure, said the multimillion naira project has been sited inside Nigeria’s premier university, the University of Ibadan. The event, he said, would hold at the John Paul II Hall.

AThe six governors in the South West: Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Gboyega Oyetola (Osun), Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo) and Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti) as well as many eminent Yoruba leaders, are also expected to join Osinbajo to make another history for the Yoruba race.

Adedayo, who stated that the project is a brainchild of the International Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture (INCEYAC), explained that the project signposts a new chapter in the advancement of Yoruba culture, history, tradition and values. He added that launch would feature opening of the centre’s temporary abode, the presentation of a full documentary on the Yoruba World Centre, and the laying of the foundation at the permanent site by the vice president.

“When completed, the Yoruba World Centre will have a standard library, an archive, a museum, a recreation, reconstruction and digital centre, broadcasting and film village, and an artificial forest (zoo). The centre will serve as a one-stop shop that offers old, new, recreated and reconstructed materials for researchers, lecturers, students, authors, journalists, historians and members of the public interested in Yoruba history, arts and culture, as tool for nation building, national cohesion, and mutual understanding,” he said.

Adedayo noted that as vibrant and vast the Yoruba race is, it has “no single institution anywhere in the world, where researchers, or anyone at all, can stay to conduct and complete works on the history, arts and culture of the Yoruba people.

“Being the largest user of Yoruba language (in print) in the world today, and because of our daily interactions with the language, arts, culture and history of the people, through our newspaper -ALAROYE, we can confirm that there is no such institution in the entire world. In addition to providing a good ambience for researchers, the Yoruba World Centre, as a knowledge centre, will help Nigeria and Nigerians in the onerous task of nation building.”


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This is a great initiative. Just last week Black race day was celebrated in Brazil and I was surprised seeing Yoruba people displaying their dialect when being interviewed.

Good
Is time to start looking into our Roads

This is a great development. Depending on the development it could lure global Yorubas in Brazil, Benin and elsewhere to visit the site.

Good news contributing more to the development of SW

This is fantastic. It will be very useful to be able to access all of history in books.

This is fantastic ,the Yorubas are to encourage their culture as to recon with, I like listening to Professor Yemi Osinbajo's speech

The vision is one that should be nurtured by the Yoruba race

This is nice and fantastic
Keep it up

God bless Yoruba race. Chai we are organised, sweet and intelligent

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Yorubas ....the best!

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ODU-DU-IWA IS LORD THE SON.

MAY GOD BE THE SECURITY, SAFETY AND SUCCESS OF ALL YOUR EXCELLENCIES. PRESENT HERE AT THIS LAUNCH. AMEN.

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great

When will others emulate this great initiative.

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Wow
God bless the Yoruba race

Good

Yoruba Lagba

Great. Let them come together to contribute to knowledge and development