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The Isese Assembly, popularly called Isese Welfare Association (IWA), popularly called Ìṣẹ̀ṣe Assembly which representing Isese Community in Nigeria has indicated its readiness to organize a One-Day Interactive Session with stakeholders in film industry as well as skit makers in the Southwestern Nigeria.

The targeted participants at the event are actors, directors, producers, script writers, film and skit makers, content creators and makers, who will interact with leading and practicing Oniseses on Saturday, 12th of September, 2024, at Onasode Hall, International Conference Center, University of Ibadan by 11pm.

In a media statement made available to newsmen on Sunday and signed by the National Publicity Secretary of Isese Welfare Association (IWA), Awo Ifatayo Ayomo Awolade, the body declared that, it has become imperative to call for the gathering in order to reorganize the Isese community at large in Yorubaland, create new innovations and enduring capacities to deal with challenges encountering the Yoruba divinatory practices, traditions, spirituality, heritage and religion, which is known as Isese.

According to the statement, the event will be hosted by the revered Yoruba elder, High Chief Ifayemi Elebuibon, who is the Araba Awo of Osogbo, Osun State.

“On behalf of Ìṣẹ̀ṣe Community in general, Ìṣẹ̀ṣe Welfare Association (IWA), which is popularly known as Ìṣẹ̀ṣe Assembly is organising a very inclusive and historic One-Day Interactive Session with the Critical Stakeholders in Movie Industry in Nigeria (particularly in Yorùbáland), and these stakeholders include Actors, Directors, Producers, Scripts Writers, Film and Skit Makers, and Contents Creators and Marketers; with leading practising Oníṣẹ̀ṣes in Ibadan, Oyo State.

“This is part of the ongoing initiatives and activities aimed at reorganising Ìṣẹ̀ṣe Community at large in Yorùbáland in particular, and objectively to create new innovations and enduring capacities to deal with the contemporary challenges damaging the Yorùbá’s unique Divinatory practices, Traditions, Spirituality, Heritage, and Religion known as Ìṣẹ̀ṣe.”

Awólàdé went further to say that the symposium will avail participants to discuss ways to curb the denigration and bastardisation of Yoruba belief system, while establishing a sustainable channel for periodic consultation and collaboration towards the preservation of Yoruba culture, tradition and heritage, through film making and the theatre.

“The primary objective of this Interactive Session is to curb denigration of Ìṣẹ̀ṣe and to implore the stakeholders to help to stop the barstadisation of our dear Belief System, and also to establish a sustainable channel for regular consultation and collaboration to preserve and promote our rich Culture, Tradition, and Heritage through film making and theatrical practices.

“This event is scheduled to hold on 12th of September, 2024 at Onasode Hall, International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan (UI), Oyo Road, Ibadan, Oyo State by 11 am prompt.

“This is ever important event will be hosted by Olóyè Àgbà (High Chief) Ifáyẹmí Àyìndé Ẹlẹ́buìbọn, the Àràbà Awo of Òṣogbo, Osun State,” he mentioned.

Signed:
Awo Ifátáyọ̀ Àyọ̀mọ́ Awólàdé
National Publicity Secretary
Ìṣẹ̀ṣe Welfare Association (IWA)
Aka Ìṣẹ̀ṣe Assembly.

Sunday 11th September, 2024.

In a statement credited to him
He said

“On Friday, I submitted a memo to the Chief of Staff to the President informing my office that I am proceeding on an indefinite leave of absence to frontally deal with medical matters presently affecting my immediate, nuclear family.

While I fully appreciate that the ship of state waits for no man, this agonizing decision — entailing a pause of my functions as the Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity and Official Spokesperson of the President; Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action, and Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on Project Evergreen — was taken after significant consultations with my family over the past several days as a vexatious medical situation has worsened at home.

I look forward to returning to full-time national service when time, healing, and fate permit.

I respectfully ask for some privacy for my family and I during this time.”

Oyo State has urged the Federal Government to give deserved honour to late Pa Taiwo akinkunmi, designer of the national flag.

In a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, he quoted the Acting Governor of Oyo State, Barr. Bayo Lawal, as saying that, “the celebration of the death of an iconic figure like 87year old Pa Taiwo Akinkunmi who designed the Nigerian flag 64years ago at the age of 23 should be a national festival.

“The fact that Pa Akinkunmi belongs to this part of the country does not detract from his recognition as a national hero.”

The Acting governor said this at the funeral service held in honour of the late Icon at the Liberty Stadium in Ibadan.

According to him, Pa Akinkunmi represents the classic example of a national Icon and the Federal Government should not abdicate its duty to give him deserved respect and honour, whether alive or dead.

The State Government had earlier provided funds for the burial ceremony and presented a symbolic national flag to the children of the deceased.

A 38-year-old married hunter, Joseph Ajegba, has narrated the event that led to his bossom friend’s demise in lkun-Akoko, in Akoko South West council area of Ondo state.

The suspect was paraded at the state police headquarters, Akure, on Wednesday, September 4.

He said he committed the crime after he caught the deceased ‘working out’ with his girlfriend in the house he rented for her.

He said that he had dropped a bush meat for his girlfriend earlier in the day and went out in the night for another round of game but was surprised by what he saw when he got to the house.

According to him, “I went out hunting after I have taken some bottles of beer, but I ran out of cartridges. I wanted to return to the house of my girlfriend to sleep there.

When I got there, I saw the door locked. I now went to the window and I opened it and saw a co-hunter ‘working out’ with my girlfriend. That was why I used the gun in my hand.”

The Ogun State Waste Management Authority has sealed off two Chinese companies, Yibao Industrial Limited and Ronchang Industrial Park, for violating environmental laws by failing to properly manage their waste. Yibao Industrial Limited is located at Bara Village along the Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway, while Ronchang Industrial Park is situated opposite Julius Berger yard on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

According to a statement from the authority on Sunday, the companies repeatedly ignored warnings and failed to engage accredited waste collectors to manage their waste, leading to improper disposal practices. The Managing Director of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority, Abayomi Hunye, led an enforcement team to shut down the companies’ operations.

Hunye stated that the companies’ actions violated Section 17 of the Ogun State Waste Management Law of 2020. He pointed out that both companies had been found guilty of using unaccredited waste collectors, which not only contravened the law but also exposed the public to potential health risks, including underground water contamination and foul odors from untreated waste.

“The essence of shutting them down is to ensure that they comply with the standard ways of managing wastes in the state,” Hunye said. He emphasized that the authority had given multiple notices and conducted inspections to counsel the companies on maintaining a clean environment and using government-approved waste collectors, but the companies remained non-compliant.

Hunye warned that the government would take similar actions against any company, whether Nigerian or foreign-owned, found guilty of such violations. “We have no alternative than to shut them down in the overriding public interest, as their behavior and action smack of gross disrespect to constituted authority,” he added.

Four persons died and 20 others were injured in an auto crash along the Ilesa-Akure express road in Osun State on Wednesday.

The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) in the state, Taofeek Somunbi, who confirmed the news to journalists on Saturday, said two commercial buses and a truck were involved in the accident.

He added that three women and one man were killed in the incident.

According to the FRSC official, the accident was caused by over-speeding and reckless driving by the drivers of the vehicles involved.

He appealed to road users to be careful on the wheel for their safety and that of other motorists.
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