OSUN OSOGBO FESTIVAL: Another Means for the barren to have child rounds up on August 21, 2015.

Performing traditional festivals and rites in Africa had been on a low form as very few places in Africa still feels its a means of tourist attraction even in Nigeria. In Nigeria the traditional celebrations and the town that still perform these festivals includes Ojude Oba in Ijebu land, Osun Osogbo in Osogbo etc but one of them that walks with the rainy season is the celebration of the goddess of the river Osun in Osun state Nigeria, called "Osun Osogbo Festival". 
This Festival on Aug. 21, would reach its peak as devotees of Osun goddess, tourists, cultural enthusiasts and indigenes, celebrate the grand finale of the Osun-Osogbo festival.

The 2015 edition began on Aug. 11 with the clearing of the traditional paths called “Iwo Popo’’.

The grand finale will witness a votary maid (Arugba Osun), going to the river with a calabash filled with antiquities to worship the goddess of the river on Aug. 21.

Osogbo town and the Palace of Ataoja of Osogbo had been bustling with activities in preparation for the grand finale of the Osun-Osogbo festival.

A trader in Osogbo, Mr Tunde Akinboboye, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that “he makes more money during the period with his colleagues’’.

He said he made the money from tourists who come to Osogbo to witness the Arugba Osun as she goes to the groove on Aug. 21.

Mr Victor Remilekun, a staff of Gani Olaoluwa Hotel, told NAN that hotels in Osogbo were fully booked.

He said tourists from other countries and government officials across the country had booked almost every hotel in the town including theirs.

He also said the event would add value to the socio-economy lives of the people as tourists and people from other states and countries troop into Osun.

“I know the activities will create avenue for informal workers to make money during the festival,’’ Remilekun said.

A security operative, Mr Fagboyinbo Abiodun, in Dada Estate in Osogbo, told NAN that the police had set up a 24 hour surveillance before, during and after the Osun-Osogbo festival.

According to him, everything is in top gear and security personnel will be dispatched to every nook and cranny of the groove and the entire state to fight crime. He advised criminals to flee the state.

WHAT TO DO TO HAVE A BABY THROUGH THE OSUN OSOGBO FESTIVAL RIGHTS

1. One major thing is to be very much present at the venue of the Osun Osogbo Festival

2. Capitalize on the day Arugba osun would carry the ancient calabash to the river goddess 

3. That would be the day the Osun Oogbo priest " Aworo" would ask people to pray and ask for what they want and also barren women should drink out of the water.


The Ataoja of Osogbo had said that the 2015 festivities would be promising and colourful as well as add more cultural and socio-economic value to the people. With other traditional rites having been done, which includes, lightening of 15 faced traditional lamp, "Atupa Oloju merindinlogun" which the people believed its necessary to bring down the spirits of their forefathers and its a necessity.

The state government has declared Aug. 20,2015 as public holidays for the traditional festivity of the Isese celebration.

The Osun-Osogbo Trade Fair will be closed as the festival rolls off for 2015. As reported by All Africa dot com.