OSUN STUDENTS TO STUDY IFA – AREGBESOLA

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computer tablet has application for Ifa studies
The
Osun State Government has announced a comprehensive plan for the state’s
secondary school students to study Ifa as one of their subjects.
The
state Governor, Ogbeni Raufu Aregbesola, said the schools’ computer tablet had
application for Ifa studies.
Aregbesola
made the relevation yesterday during the special prayers session to usher in
the New Year, organized with clerics from all religions praying for the peace
and growth of the state.

Clerics
who offered special prayers for the state included the President General,
League of Imams and Alfas in the South-West, Alhaji Mustapha Ajisafe; the
Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the state, Evangelist
Abraham Aladeseye; and frontline Ifa priest, Chief Ifayemi Elebuibon, among
others.
The
special prayer affected official functions in the state secretariat and other
government offices, as top civil servants across all parastatal agencies graced
the occasion held in the premises of the Bola Ige House, state secretariat,
Abere, Osogbo.
Bishop
of Osogbo Diocese of the Methodist Church, Bishop John Bamigboye, advised the
government to compensate those whose property were demolished as a result of
the ongoing road dualization in the state.
Bamigboye
enjoined the government to return Christian and Islamic Religious Studies to
all primary and secondary schools in the state.
Governor
Aregbesola, in his remarks at the ceremony, declared that 2013 would be a year
of total freedom for the state, stressing that the year would be for the people
of the state a year of total turn-around and liberty.
According
to the governor, the government’s major desire for the state in 2013 is to
ensure the fulfillment of the desires of the state’s founding fathers,
stressing: “Osun State will be freed in 2013 from hunger, mystery, poverty and
under-development.”
He
said his government has paid over N600 million as compensation to owners of
demolished structures, even as he assured that those who were yet to receive
their compensation would get theirs soon.
Aregbesola
also disclosed that his government had returned religious studies to all public
primary and secondary schools in the state, adding that the free computer
tablet tagged ‘opon Imon’, which the government would present to secondary
school students had an application for Ifa studies.
He
also prayed for peace and development of the state in 2013 and urged all the
people to support his government and the country with prayers, saying: “Nigeria
needs prayers for an end to come to the security problem confronting the
northern part of the country.”
Aregbesola
added that his desire for the year was to make the state the envy of other
states in the country, saying he had come to the state to do the works of God.
Source:
Sun

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