The Erelu of Iraye Kingdom, Dr Busola Odedina, has celebrated Iro Day 2026 with distribution of foodstuffs and no fewer than 400 people benefitted from her medical outreach.
The Erelu Iro Community Impact Day 2026 with the topic: "Celebrating Culture, Health & Community Development", came up at Akodi Obalaaye, Lukohun, Iraye Kingdom, on Wednesday, in Ile-Ife.
Busola Onigbogi Odedina Girls Empowerment Foundation in conjunction with Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex and its Department of Medicine & Ophthalmology & Community Health, collaborated on Erelu Iro Community Impact Health Day, 2026.
Odedina said that Iro symbolises their annual festival whereby they worship their god of wealth, wisdom and peace.
The Erelu Iro Community Impact Day 2026 with the topic: "Celebrating Culture, Health & Community Development", came up at Akodi Obalaaye, Lukohun, Iraye Kingdom, on Wednesday, in Ile-Ife.
Busola Onigbogi Odedina Girls Empowerment Foundation in conjunction with Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex and its Department of Medicine & Ophthalmology & Community Health, collaborated on Erelu Iro Community Impact Health Day, 2026.
Odedina said that Iro symbolises their annual festival whereby they worship their god of wealth, wisdom and peace.
She explained that they are celebrating their culture through health and reaffirmed that their culture is not against their sound health and living together in harmony.
She appealed to Iraye indigenes to value their culture and traditional heritage by embracing each other and desisting from the act of abandoning their homes, families and tradition.
According to her, their festival prioritises sound health which led her to organise a medical outreach whereby people's blood was checked, their sugar level, blood pressure and eyes were screened.
Erelu Foundation also distributed rice, yam flour, garri, yam among others to about 500 people.
The Odole, Chief Akin Akinwande from Jagudu Compound, said that Iraye Kingdom comprises 13 compounds: Lukohun, Osin, Lanase, Jagudu, Opo-Okesoda, Opo-Iremo, Abatabudu among others.
He said that the Iraye monarch is a crowned one unlike others with 16 Chieftaincy titles as Ooni has 16 Kingmakers with Sarun, and Emese Oodua, their wives will cook different foods, eat and dine during the festival.
The Obalaaye of Iraye Kingdom, Oba Eludayo Elugbemi, appreciated the Almighty God that gave them the privilege of witnessing the 2026 annual festival as well as acknowledged the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, for his fatherly role.
Oba Elugbemi thanked the indigenes and non-indigenes of Iraye Kingdom like: youths, women, men, their wives, all chiefs among others for supporting him on the throne and allowing peaceful coexistence in the land.
He charged them to maintain the love and harmony that reigns for them to make more progress and development in Iraye and Ile-Ife at large.
Chief Asiwajun of Ife, Chief Alex Duduyemi, Otunba Iraye Kingdom, Chief Ajisafe Eluyera, other chiefs, Iraye Cultural troupe, wives, children, youths among others graced the occasion
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