The Yoruba intelligentsia on the platform of The Yoruba Leadership and
Peace Initiative (TYLPI) is to hold a crucial retreat, in Ibadan, Oyo
State Capital to discuss the unity and progress of the race in Nigeria.
The scheduled retreat with participants drawn from all Southwest state
and others, including Kwara, Kogi, Edo, and all parts of Nigeria and the
Diaspora where yorubas are spread, will hold at the Conference Hall,
Lead City University, Ibadan on Thursday.
According to a statement signed by Mr Folu Olamiti, spokesman for the
group, Yoruba leaders, captains of industries, those from the academia,
students, market men and women, artisans and different brands of
professionals had been invited to partake in the retreat.
means of fostering the Unity of the Yoruba with intent to forge a common
endeavour among the people in line with the aspirations of the race
progenitors.
The statement said that with the outcome of the Retreat, TYLPI would be
in a good stead to network with other similar groups and like minds to
spearhead advocacy on promotion of good neighborliness among the Yoruba
and the sound leadership which it said the south-west required to attain
a new height in Nigeria.
It said TYLPI has always been inclined towards reviving Education which
it noted has always given the Yoruba an edge as an ethnic group as well
as promoting economic and cultural advancement of the people at all
times.
It said participants at the Retreat would have the right opportunity to
espouse ideas and suggestions meant to revive the fast dwindling Yoruba
heritage through which it noted the Yoruba ethnic group for years,
registered as the pace-setter for others in Nigeria.
TYLPI a non-partisan, non-political and non-religious group had before
now had held series of meetings on its core aim and objective of forging
a common endeavour among the Yoruba, while the idea of the Retreat
scheduled for Thursday is part of efforts to widen its horizon both
locally and internationally.
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