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ore yeye osun. oooooooo

osun oshogbo 2019 festival. As it happens today.

LEOSIRSIR:
The annual Osun Osogbo festival is going on, Brief info


The origin and story of Osun festival started over 700 years ago when a group of settlers led by one great hunter, Olutimehin settled on the bank of the river to escape the famine in their former dwelling place. Osun, the water goddess was said to have appeared to Olutimehin and requested him and his group to move up some bit to higher ground – the present Osogbo town. Osun pledged to protect the group and make their women fruitful if they would offer an annual sacrifice to her in return. The group agreed, vowing to sacrifice annually to the goddess trusting that she would honour her promise. Today, the annual sacrifice has gone past just offering sacrifices to a river goddess, it has become an international celebration of cultural events attracting people from all over the world.

The Osun Osogbo festival is celebrated every year, for two weeks in the month of August. The festival begins with Iwopopo, the traditional cleansing of the town of evil. After three days, the Ina Olujumerindinlogun, a 600-year-old, 16-point lamp is lighted. Following this, is the Iboriade, where all the crowns of the past kings or Ataojas are assembled for blessing by the sitting Ataoja of Osogbo, the Arugba, the Yeye Osun, and a committee of priestesses.

The ‘Arugba’ also known as the ‘Calabash carrier’ is the key figure of the Osun Osogbo festival. She is a votary virgin, a cultural version of the Virgin Mary, who bears the Osun calabash on her head. The calabash contains sacrifice for the goddess. The Arugba is not only seen as a virgin maid but also as a goddess so people pray and tell her all their problems as she leads them, with the calabash on her head to the river. The current Arugba, Osuntomi Oyetunji, is the young daughter of the sitting Ataoja of Osogbo.

The story of Osun Osogbo festival includes the role of Susanne Wenger, an Austrian who worked towards its present development and to bring it to international attention. From the early 1950’s, she devoted the rest of her life to the restoration of the abandoned shrines. She remodelled the gods in sculpture and ceramics, and made over 75 cultural gods in artful representations. Wenger stopped people from abusing the integrity of the groves and prohibited hunting, fishing, felling of trees there. She personally rebuilt the customary shrines and groves again until her death.

The Osun festival started as an annual sacrifice to the river goddess. Presently, it is an international celebration of cultural events. The Osun Osogbo festival is no longer a cultural event of the Osogbo or Yoruba people, it has become a global event with people attending from Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Spain, Canada, and the United States.

Adherents of Osun goddess travel from all over the world to attend the annual cultural event in Osogbo, Osun State. The traditional ruler of Osogbo Town, the Ataoja of Osogbo - HRM Oba Jimoh Olanpekun Larooye II, the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) representing the federal government, and the Osun State government all collaborate to make the annual event a great success.

OMI OTA AGBA o. ore yeye osun ooooooooooooooo

PHD is not a test of wisdom . it only shows you are knowledgeable in a particular field . Don't be surprise if you consider your prof not to be as smart as you.

Guess these set of people.......

Nigeria First Lady and that of Guinea Conackry, Niger Republic, Gambia and Somalia, all in Saudi Arabia. they decide to take a picture together .......

frank317:
Sincere answers needed.

This is where predestination comes into play. prayer is not an obstacle to effort neither does effort an obstacle to predestination. but enough prayer and effort compliment a better Destiny.

mtisTheQubit:
Explain again...are they Nigerians or not? An what freak is ths francophoneys ya keep on referring. .


Anyway naijas like blaming anyone but not yourself...
Poverty blame the northern folks
Education blame northern guys again..
Cultistsm blame the delta peeps
Ugliness blame the south west
Scamming blame the south East
Prostitution blame the edo peeps
...
.....
An the blame continues

Ya all freaking naijas ..accept that

lol...... You reply this as someone who lives in Nigeria.

so the big boys can copy from the smaller nation.





General NewsWed, 7 Aug 2019

US defense innovation unit wants drones to deliver medical supplies and it is partnering zipline.

The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit is working with the medical-supply-dropping drone manufacturer Zipline to prototype unmanned aerial systems (UAS) as a way to broaden the distribution network of battlefield emergency supply delivery.

Zipline, a drone delivery company that markets itself as a “lifesaving” Silicon Valley startup, builds drones that can deliver supplies with automated robotic systems that can adjust to real-time conditions. The company’s work with the Department of Defense began in 2018 with an Other Transaction Agreement, the Pentagon told FedScoop.Zipline also operates in Ghana and Rwanda, delivering blood to rural hospitals where it says its fast delivery saved lives.

The company uses small, winged aircraft that fly like small planes instead of a quadcopter-style drone. Its payload, often a parachute-attached box of blood, is dropped using the assistance of weather-aware robotics.DIU did not elaborate on what exactly it is building with Zipline. DOD spokeswoman Elissa Smith told FedScoop the Pentagon is “collaborating to experiment with drone systems in an effort to answer questions about how drone deliveries could improve medical care during conflicts, disasters, and humanitarian crises.”

Zipline’s work with DOD also is to develop “exercises” to deliver supplies within the “golden hour,” or the time where care has a significantly higher chance of preventing death, Eric Gardiner, who works in global business development at Zipline, said during a panel on drone innovation at the U.S. Capitol in July.

“They wanted to get delivery to critically injured to personnel on the ground … as close to the point of injury as possible,” Gardiner said.

DIU, which functions like an internal startup accelerator for the DOD, often uses OTA contracts for prototype projects, ditching the lengthy requirements documents and long timelines of typical procurements to do business with small, innovative companies the Pentagon doesn’t typically reach. In May, DIU announced plans to work on developing backpack-sized, quadcopter-style reconnaissance drones.

Source: fedscoop

samorobo:
Please don't

I will not spare him if he try it.

Logobenz0:
See for yourself

well this is not about people living in anambra but about the population of people on voice and data and the statistics is even 2016. that is three years old .

Logobenz0:
Anambra is 4 million vaxx. I'm telling something and you're arguing again. Something that I even watch live. I watch their documentary on NTA news

Even the population of onitsha is half a million . innewi and akwa will have something around two million . remember onitsha is the second most populated city in the east . and innewi follow.

Just30:

well the figure i gave is an understatement. it is actually more than that.

Logobenz0:
Anambra is 4 million not 7

You must be reading 2006 article. go check the latest. that figure is even more

samorobo:
You appear to.know alot about Ghana and I am ready to be schooled by you

he knows nothing about the country. . Ghana recently adjust his budget to rake in more money to financed her expenditure. she need about 6.5 billion cedis more. that is like 2 billion dollar more . many unrelated taxes were cut as well. while productive tax were charged more Goods things don't come cheap.



Anyway..... this is a case study about Ghana from IMF.


An abstract from the finance minister

Mr. Speaker, a 2019 report of the IMF, using Ghana as a case study, pretty much captures where our economy was and where we have taken it to over the past 31 months and the greater gains we are poised to make from the decisions we have taken as a result of the competence and discipline we have applied in implementing them.

10. With your permission, Mr Speaker, I quote from the very beginning of the report: “Ghana has been hailed as one of sub-Saharan Africa’s success stories. It was the first to free itself from colonial rule, in 1957. It built a stable democracy in the 1990s, overcoming decades of political upheaval. A thriving economy fuelled by exports of cocoa, gold, and—more recently—oil helped cut the poverty rate from 53 percent in 1991 to 21 percent in 2012.

11. “But by 2015, Ghana’s economy was in trouble, hobbled by widening current account and budget deficits, rampant inflation, and a depreciating currency. Credit dried up as interest rates rose and banks’ bad loans piled up. At the root of Ghana’s woes was out-of-control government spending… In early 2015, Ghana turned to the IMF for a $918 million loan to help stabilize the economy...” [unquote]

12. The report goes on to highlight some of the achievements chalked over the past 31 months. “[quote]Ghana’s economy is on the mend. The trade and budget deficits are narrowing. The pace of economic growth is poised to rise to 8.8 percent in 2019 from 2.2 percent in 2015. The inflation rate is projected to fall to 8 percent from almost 19 percent. Cuts to wasteful spending made room for much needed social services, such as free secondary education. For Ghana’s 28 million people, it all adds up to higher incomes, better job opportunities, and more purchasing power. [unquote]“ https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/GHA/ghana-lending-case-study

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Just30:
3 million

Against anambra state of nearly 7 million ]

samorobo:
You appear to.know alot about Ghana and I am ready to be schooled by you

lol .

samorobo:
Oh my gawd this shiit is so funny. Can you perceive it from your phone?

believe me it smell from his brain. his brains smell too.

pokuasi:
this same Ringworm I ask to name just one product the fake factories are producing, and he went into hiding like the Ghanaian boy that joined ISIS

samorobo can you see this polio patient is just trolling here. I have provide names and picture that easily be assessed on Google. yet the idiot still vomit.

pokuasi:
please that one district one factory thing is a pipe dream.. The country is broke as I type this.. They're introducing taxes here and there to pay common salaries of 119 ministers and presidential staffers .. That man is a total failure.. He said he was going to build one factory in every district within one year in office, almost 4yrs down the line, not even one container shop..

Yet you can't defend it. provide a single evidence for what you wrote there?

samorobo:
Preach

Almost west africa countries are doing it. ship building and repearing is even bigger in Ghana

samorobo:
Okay vaxx this is too.much.you are having a simple argument it shouldn't result to parent..I haven't seen him drag your parents..just stick to the argument

I am not insulting him, i am only replying him back. check what he wrote . that is the meaning in English. I don't attack people parent first.

Just30:
those are what i had time for

i decided not to add the mines and service companies

just manufactoring

Even that, i didnt list a lot more

Let me also know the population this companies in Takoradi are serving compare to anambra state

pokuasi:
my resident permit is in your Mami tw3

You mean your mother pussy?

pokuasi:
the NPP propagandist is crying blood

provide me your residential permit. You this liability.

pokuasi:
When you see a Ghana man with extremely big head and brown eyes sunken deep into the skull, you'll go like these people will be very smart but, sorry my friend, that big head is a form of identity.. A way of identifying a human prototype with empty big head

You are failure both in nigeria and Ghana

pokuasi:
He has now shift it to infrastructure.. Lol.. You first saw interchange or flyover than Nigerians first saw in the 70s and name it Dubai.. Out Accra, Ghana look like a 6AD village

can you rewrite what you wrote there again. it is incomprehensible

Just30:
they went to the IMf to prevent capital flight

now tell me why your government is begging the Chinese to give them small money to pay salaries

Gibbon

Nigeria was begging IMF for 3.5 biilon dollar emergency loan in 2016. remember the guy you are engaging is an undocumented economic migrant whose Nigeria goverment in Ghana don't recognise.

pokuasi:
you're mentally degraded hence jump from one subject to the other like a typical booty scratching, tree jumper you are

I killed your dream from trying to get defensive that Ghana is not expanding on massive industrialization agenda and to Ghana is at the mercy of imf. I made you become more stupid than before by showing you what subscribing to imf agenda entails. you can only accuse me of jumping whereas you are the actual he goat here.

pokuasi:
This dummy is high or something.. Which over valued exchange rate.. Your currency was like a toilet paper until IMF came and took over the running of your govt since the people there were brain dead

You are an idiot not to know naira is over value at the moment. I have schooled you enough tonight.

pokuasi:
which health insurance.. The one that broke and can't provide basic medicine for Common cases line malaria

You see why i called you a nincompop. health insurance is even applicable on brain tumour. I am sure you are dying to have one .

pokuasi:
You're a villager firstly and dumb. IMF ran your govt for you.. You had finance ministers who only read speeches and IMF call economic shots in your country.. They gave you their conditionalities which include-them running your govt for you for just 918 million USD yet you claim to be independent and gained independence before others

you see why i called you a nincompop. Imf don't manage economy, they only give advices since what leads to calling on imf is bad economic policies. the excessive budget deficits, un-targeted subsidies, overvalued exchange rates, which are all in abundant in nigeria economy as I type. etc. --. For example, Nigeria sett up the price of electricity below the cost of producing and distributing it which only serves the interests of those with a lot of electrical appliances — the rich — while starving the system of funds needed to maintain and expand service to a wider share of the public. Likewise, maintaining an overvalued exchange rate which only allows urban consumers to buy imported goods at low prices, while making it impossible for existing and potential exporters to earn the foreign exchange needed to cover the cost of those imports. this is why Nigeria was sent inton reccession since the oil price to maintain them drop..

for Ghana to be drag into recession, she will rather borrow from imf ( that seems more prudent) .


in 2011, nkojo iweala was crying and begging Nigeria to allow her remove subsidy. buhari almost run to imf of recent.