Oyo town – Ooni of Ife on december 15, 2013 at
1:09 pm in news ( www.vanguardngr.com)
Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade said
yesterday in Ibadan that Ile-Ife had been in
existed over 10,000 years before the birth
of Jesus Christ, and even before Oyo town,
warning people against distortion of history.
Sijuwade made this fact known while delivering
his goodwill message at the Lead City University
where he was given an honorary Doctor of Public
Administration award along with three others.
He furthered: "Ile- ife was created 10,000
years before the birth of Christ. Epeland was
created in 1832, Agodoyo where Alaafin is was
created in 1837.
Then how can anyone say it has existed before
Ile-Ife. This is distortion of history and it
should be stopped. We all belong to Ile-Ife and
it will remain forever until God decides
otherwise and by that time, none of us here will
be around."
He also kicked against the idea of parents
sending their children to government
institutions, saying "this is my first time at the
Lead City and with what I saw here today it is
better for our children to attend private
university than government own university. I
can say with all emphasis that Lead City
University is better than many of the
government owned universities around. I am
very proud of the university."
Other awardees were Mr. Falil Ayo Abina (a
banker) who received Doctor of Banking and
Finance Science, Dr Thompson Abayomi Osin, a
physiotherapy in Nigeria and Africa's first
physiotherapist who received the doctor of
science and Mr. Bayo Jimoh, Group
Managing Director (GMD) of Odua Investment
Company who received a Doctor of Science,
Business Administration.
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone provided by Airtel Nigeria.
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