Oba Egunjobi Adefunmi II, the Oloyotunji of Oyotunji African Village, Sheldon, South Carolina, USA (right), and Mr Rotimi Vaughan, Cultural Ambassador to Oloyotunji, during the Oba’s arrival at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos recently.
Oba Egunjobi Adefunmi II, the Oloyotunji of Oyotunji African Village, Sheldon, South Carolina, USA, who is currently in Nigeria to promote the forthcoming Oyotunji Cultural Fiesta has said that the festival will be rallying no fewer than 150,000 Nigerians ahold in Sheldon, South Carolina, US.
Oba Egunjobi Adefunmi II, made this known in an interview with journalists at arrival wing of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, recently.
The date for the Oyotunji Cultural Fiesta is yet to be announced.
The cultural fiesta is an annual event that would attract millions of guests from Nigeria, Africa United States of America and the entire South America for a landmark cultural, economic and tourism networking event.
It is an event that would be about cultural integrations and exchange promotion of culture, tourism, education and investment between South Carolina, USA and Nigeria.
He noted that his royal home coming is deliberate to visit his ancestral and spiritual home, Nigeria, was to promote a bilateral relation between Nigeria and South Carolina in the areas of trade and commerce, education, tourism, arts, culture and agriculture.
Oba Adefunmi who arrived Nigeria on a 30-day royal home coming was accompanied by African American entourage and was received by a powerful delegation led by Rotimi Vaughan, among them are Chief Oluwanbe Amodu, Chief Akintunde Ambode, Chief (Mrs) Funke Ogunfuye.
The monarch who was welcomed by a cultural performance and display expressed his warm delight in visiting his African ancestral and spiritual home.
Oloyotunji of Oyotunji African Village described his home visit to motherland-Nigeria as historic.
The Oba is billed to pay President Muhammadu Buhari and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II a grand home-coming visit.
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