OluBadan Clocks 100 years - Ibadan City lights fireworks

Jubilant songs, ecstatic drumming and graceful dance steps will be colourful spectacle on major routes and public spaces in Ibadan, Oyo State capital from today till weekend, as the people pay homage to celebrate the traditional ruler of the city, the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1 who clocks 100 years today.

The centennial birthday celebration, which will feature a church service, carnival show, symposium, Jumat service, stage play, chieftaincy award, a grand finale party and homage by his subjects, is significant not only because of the grace of longevity afforded the revered monarch but also because his reign, now in the eighth year, has brought with it unprecedented developmental strides and progress as well as aesthetic face-lift to the city, hitherto pejoratively ranked as “one of the dirtiest cities in Africa.”

Although largely apolitical, the monarch has earned great respect as a fearless, moral force with his intervention in providing a compass to guide political processes and actions, at a time the land is threatened to be swamped by aberrant political order.
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