Omu-Aran Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Festival== * '''EGÚNGÚN FESTIVAL.''' This includes egungun àgbà, egungun pàràká, egungun ode (láyèwú), and egungun eléwe. Egungun is usually held once every two years in Omu-Aran and environs in remembrance of the ancestors.<ref>http://www.travelhubnigeria.com/major%20festival.html</ref> * '''ÒGBÓ FESTIVAL''' (also called "Orugbo Festival") is an openly held annual festival in Omu-Aran city to pay homage to OLOGBOMONA (Olomu Aperan) and to his goddess mother popularly called ÒMÙTÓTÓ (also known as "Ìyá Ògbó" or "Ìyá Àgbà"). This festival is popularly held in Omu-Aran (Igbomina Capital City) on behalf of the entire Igbomina-Yoruba land. * '''EPA and ANGERE FESTIVAL''' is also held in Omu-Aran within an interval of two years except at special occasions when angere comes out to entertain. * '''ALÁTÀ FESTIVAL''' is one of the traditional festivals that hold in Omu-Aran within a period of one to two years. Alata is a kind of masquerade made with palm fronds and ashes. Alata runs with a cane called "ÀTÒRÌN" in Yoruba. It pursues after some selected runners that dare it. Beating with canes is part of the festival (in which individuals present at the venue will engage each other in beating with the slash of a cane). * '''CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL''' is also one of the carnival-like annual festivals and is blissfully held in Omu-Aran. This is usually in the month of December. While Christians in Omu-Aran do host Christmas Festivals, Muslims in Omu-Aran similarly celebrate Ileya at Salah periods annually. *'''ILÉYÁ FESTIVAL''' ([[Eid al-Adha]]) is lovely to behold in Omu-Aran. It happens annually during the Salah period which corresponds to the Islamic calendar. * '''OMU-ARAN''' DAY is a kind of festival in Omu-Aran usually held within an interval of about four years. The event is used to raise funds for the physical development of the community. From funds raised from such a community fundraising in the past, the community has built some secondary schools (4 to 5 in number) which after completion were all freely handed over by the community to the government to aid good education in the state the community belongs to. Apart from secondary schools built by the community from such a fund, there are some roads in the community such as "RING ROAD" among others that the community commenced its development before government later came to complete. Likewise, the OMU-ARAN CITY COMPLEX was developed from hosting such an event in Omu-Aran. * '''ÌKÓRÈ ÒMÙ-ÀRÁN''' is held annually in Omu-Aran to generate fund to meet community expenses. From such a fund, government water-works and an electricity power-base stationed in the community have been assisted financially to function. * '''ÒMÙ-ÀRÁN Political and Economic Summit''' is a program designed to bring together all well meaning indigenes of the town from home and abroad to deliberate on a way forward of the political and economical prospect of the city. The second of its kind was organized and held on 29 December 2020 by Omu-Aran Peoples' Forum (OPF) in collaboration with Omu-Aran Development Association (ODA) and would be coming up every two years. That is, the next edition would be coming up on 29 December 2022. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page