Not less than one hundred and forty-four
students from the Department of Sociology
and Social Work from the University of
Lagos (UNILAG), on Saturday visited
tourism sites in Ile-Ife, Osun state.
Report revealed that the tour was meant
to expose the students to the culture,
tradition and heritage of the ancient city
of Ile-Ife.
It was reported that the students were
taken on tour of the National Museum,
the Ooni’s Palace, Ile Ase, Oranmiyan,
Oduduwa, Moremi groves and a host of
other tourists’ sites.
According to the students of the
institution, the tour would help them to
appreciate and further understand what
‘Inter Group Relations’ an aspect of their
course in school was really all about.
One of the students, Favour Yinka-Ojo,
said the visit to the ancient city of Ile-Ife
had satisfied her curiosity to know more
about the town, adding that she had been
able to clear doubts and acsertained that
those stories about the city were actually
true as she had been told in the past.
Another student, Moyosore Odugbesan,
stated that everything she had seen at the
museum and within the palace had
complimented everything she was taught
in school.
“Truly, seeing is believing, we can now
relate these stuffs to our junior colleagues
in school to create the thirst in them to
know more of the linkages that exist
between Ife and other parts of the
country,” she stated.
Dr. Augustine Agugua, a lecturer in the
institution and the convener of the tour
said that the students were meant to
understudy the linkages existing between
Ile-Ife and other places in the country,
adding that the ancient town occupied
significant cultural linkages in the history
of Nigeria and Yoruba race.
