Ooni of Ife to Commission Ife Grand Resort on Friday
Abimbola Abatta, Osogbo
The Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, is set to officially launch Ife Grand Resort & Industrial Park in Ile-Ife on Friday, July 16th, 2021.
This is part of the urban renewal initiatives of the Ooni for sustainable development, employment generation, empowerment and satellite for branding and showcasing the cultural heritage and value of Ile-Ife.
The above was disclosed in a statement signed by the Ooni’s Director of Media and Public Affairs, Moses Olafare.
It was gathered that the Grand Resort is located beside the tollgate on the Ife-Ibadan expressway.
The Ife Grand Resort and Leisure which is planted on over 1000 acres of land will aside from offering facilities for exquisite lodging/accommodation, harbour multiple industrial parks with pockets of industries currently producing many industrial and agricultural products as well as rendering essential services to the resort, the Ife community and Nigeria.
Ooni Ogunwusi disclosed that he deliberately brought the 3000-seats capacity event centre to make Ile-Ife the epicentre of MICE in Africa, saying that the ‘Ojaja Arena’ has been configured and positioned with all facilities to satisfy demands of Meetings , Incentives, Conference and Event adding that it would also shore up intellectual and congregational activities in Ile Ife, the ancient source of mankind.
The Ooni said, “We are building a brand new city driven by urban renewal initiative. The Ojaja Arena is basically not built for social activities but a centre for training and manpower development for youths in this country, considering Ile-Ife to have over 500 thousand students of about 20 tertiary institutions; Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and Schools of Nursing within 100km radius surrounding Obafemi Awolowo University built at the nucleus Centre in Ife over 60 years ago.
“What we’re doing is to replicate this, we have already commenced in Ondo, Oyo and Lagos states and we shall be launching these projects concurrently. It is a means of creating an avenue for our young minds to see Nigeria from a positive perspective, so we’re creating a country from a country.
“A country in the sense that is a localized environment, for them to be there and be successful and reach out to the world like the typical Adire hub that we have done we are exporting to 25 countries now. We are shipping to everywhere in the world and we have agents all over.
“So it is an industrial park that is fintech driven and it is through fintech that we’re even selling what we are selling at the hub. They place orders from anywhere globally and we ship to them, life is easy for everybody.”
