Culture and tradition of Ekiti people

An important feature of the Ekiti State is the large number of hills it possesses, which are the site of towns in which much population resides.


The state is highly rich in culture. They have their own unique traditional ways of dressing and dancing. The Ekiti people are mostly Christian and Muslim while some still practice their traditional religion. The ruler of the town are called Obas like other Yoruba Towns. Traditionally, the Obas in Ekiti state, are usually described as sacred or divine. The Oba installation and coronation are performed with solemn and lengthy rites which set them apart.
Thereafter living an ordered ceremonial existence, secluded in their palaces, subjected to many ritual of court an approached only with infinite respect.
They rarely appeared in public, expect on ceremonial occasions .
By old costumes , the king (OBA) were not only the head of their town and kingdoms, but by their personifications , reincarnating also all their ancestors back to the origin of the dynasties, they are also the titular heads of all religious set in their kingdom.
Their appointment are partly by divination, made by the king makers who are mostly high chiefs.
They are usually appointed from among the children of the past Kings. The ceremonies for their appointment and coronation are elaborate. The sacredness of their offices was neither empty nor normal; They are they sources of honor, to bestow titles and chieftaincies. The kings are also the fountain of justice.


In the state framework, the kings are not expected to be part in patrician politics.
Palace of traditional rulers are true symbolical relic of the people culture and tradition.


Some of the richly endowed artifacts oriented palaces in Ekiti state are the Ewi of Ado's palace, Elekole of Ikole"s palace, Oore of Otun"s palace , Alawo of Awo's palace, Olohan of Erijiyan's palace and others.

Fire Prevention and way out when there is fire outbreak

Fire is a good friend, it is one of the things we use every day both at home and at company.
It is of good friend when use properly and carefully, but it can also be a destroyer and disaster agent when use carelessly.


because of this reason is why you must know more about how to prevents fire and what to do when there is fire outbreak in your home or in your place of work.


What you should do to safeguard your house against fire outbreak are.
1. Teach your children on how and when to use fire. eg teach them on how to turn on and off your gas cooker at home. Let them know reason why they must turn off the gas cooker tightly after every cooking, let them know the danger in bringing fire near the combustible items like petrol and kerosene.




2. Make sure all the electric's wire used in your house are strong and original. Because if you have inferior wire in your house, it may leads to fire outbreak when there is a sparks from the electric wire.
Make sure to switch off all the electric gadget in home, when they are not in use, especially when you are not at home.




3., fits fire prevention gadget in your house, like fire extinguisher and smoke detector, this will help to quickly detect when there is any fire outbreak in your house, before the fire get out of hands. Let your children also known the uses and important or these fire prevention gadget incase if you are not at home, so that they the children can call for help , when the gadget alerted them of any suspected fire outbreak in the house.


4. You should keeps all combustible item in a safe place and out of reach of children. The combustible item like petrol, gas, kerosene etc. In must be kept in a safe place and they must be kept in a far place from where fire is available.




5. Lastly, Make sure you create an exit route in your house, when ever you want to build your own house. You should also always look for exit route in a house before you pay for any rented apartment. The exit route is another door apart from a normal in your house. This exit route is usually be at the extreme end of the building.


What to do when there is fire outbreak .
When there is a fire outbreak in a house or at office, what must come to your mind at that particular time is the safety of your own life . When you have find your way out of the fire and you are safe, then you can call for help to help others.
When you are in a building where is a fire outbreak, and you are trapped in a room, and thick smoke is everywhere, what you need to do to get out of source build during fire outbreak is to lowdown and started crawling on the floor, this will protect you from being suffocated and it will also allowed you to see the sun ray to next door until you are able to get out of the building.
Always remember. As useful as fire is as also as it can destroyed.

Knowing the ultimate purpose of prayer and fasting

In the world, where Satan and his disciples are out , looking for whom to destroy.
What we need to conquered the devil and his disciples is Prayer and Fasting.


The best way to maximize the potential of a object is to first understand the purpose.
Without a comprehensive understanding of the purpose of a thing, you may not enjoy its full potential. The extent to which any object is useful can only be dependent one someone understanding of its purpose. These are the reason why you should engage in prayer and fasting to tickle devil and his disciples:


1. ENDOWMENT WITH FRESH ANOINTING - The oil on Jesus was ever fresh because He prayed always , especially on mount Olives regularly. In the bible we saw how Jesus countenance was altered and His garment was white and glistering during the prayer and fasting , the human nature gives away for Divine nature which is call Divinity.


2.OUTBREAK OF REVELATION WHICH TRIGGER OUTBREAK OF MIRACLE - During time of prayer and fasting, many secret and things that are blindfolding to scriptural truth are broken so as to gain free access to revelation and breakthrough.
Going through the life of Jesus, we can see that signs and wonders occurred after the return of Christ from prayer and fasting. And the shows us that the altar of fasting and prayer is ordained to generate signs and wonders.


3. LASTLY, EMPOWERMENT INTO NEXT LEVEL -Empowerment means when you are in charge, to have dominion. We must understand that we needs power if we must take over our inheritance which includes wealth, divine health, etc and the Kingdom of God.
Without power of God which you can get through payer and fasting you may not the blessings of God and His kingdom. Even our God rules with power , and it also takes God power to subdue evil power.
So. Prayer and fasting is the only platform through which we receive supernatural empowerment for change of levels.


We should all be watchful and also prayerful.

Africa, the spoilt child of God.

In Africa, all what can be call God giving resources are in African. Both human and natural resources are on Africa land, Many special species of wonderful animals are found in Africa forest.


In Africa, weather is not the problem, rain fall in it time and dry season comes and go. Africa weather is most comfortable weather that can't be got anywhere in the world.
There are many tourists attractions all over African country, town and cities. It is in African you see what is not in anywhere in the world. For example, A warm spring in Ikogosi Ekiti Nigeria, where a warm and cold water go side by side in a single stream.
But with all these abundant of natural and human resources Africa is still name as poor and underdeveloped continent, WHY ?.


My submission is that Africa is spoilt child. You may ask why.
Those so call developed and world power don't have what we have in Africa, but those Continent like European and American that did not have the natural resources that Africa has, are developed and honored more than any Africa nation ," WHY"
But one day this thought comes to my mind and the thought is that is it because God has blessed Africa too much to the extend that God over pamper African and he  gave all good thing like human resources, natural resources and also good whether, which other Continents did not enjoyed, I think because of this is why Africa feel comfortable and they let these comforts and gift from God make their mind lazy in thinking because all what they need have been provided in easy way. Imagine in Europe, there are many seasons , the cold Europe is time ten of what we have in Africa, there are many natural disasters in the Europe and America like earthquake, tornado, and many more , most Europe and American Continents don't have natural resources as we have in Africa, but the lack of natural resources and bad weather and occurrences of natural disasters make the white men more wiser and think fast and also think fast on how and where their problem can be solve.


But african sit and look , because of many goodies in their possession and this make African mind to be lazy even when they are strong people
For this reason is why i say that Africa is a spoilt child because is only spoilt child.


A spoilt child is a child who his parent gave everything he need in life to survive and to be a successful person in life but the child take the care and do nothing to build on what his parents has provided for him to survive but instead the child turn to be lazy in mind and in thinking.
My conclusion: If Africa has not possess all natural resources and human resources we have today, we also could have the ability to think and also look to the future and make move to do what that will make life better for Africans as Europe and American did.

History of Ekiti people

Ekiti state is one of the state of federal republic of Nigeria, Ekiti state was taken out from the old Ondo state.


The Ekitis whose their forefathers migrate from Ile Ife, the Ekitis which form one of the largest ethic group in Yoruba land.Ekitis are culturally homogenous and this homogeneous nature confer on the Ekitis some uniqueness among the state of the federation, The Ekitis speaks a dialect of Yoruba language known as Ekiti , Most ekiti nearly speaks the Same dialect, but there is slight differences noticeable in the Ekiti dialect of Yoruba language spoken by the people of Ekiti.


The slight differences in dialect is what influence and informed the location of each town, especially those at the border town to other states. For example, the Ado local government area of Ekiti do not speak exactly the same dialect with the people of of Ijero , what the people of ikole area speaks is different from what people of Ikare speaks. Another uniqueness of ekiti people is that where ever is your own part of the state, you can easily know and understand it very well when the other Ekiti man speaks, even with the different in dialects.


The people of ekiti settle in a nucleus urban patterns, Ekiti has more than 127 large and small ancient and modern town which are all located on the hill and valley, it is from this hill and valley that the State takes his name "OKITI" which means HILL. In addition all the town in ekiti take a common suffix , "EKITI"

The people of Ekiti are hard-working, very articulate, upright and studious . Ekiti women are engaging in trading while men are predominantly farmer.

The people of ekiti are mostly Christian and Muslim, while few are still practicing traditional religionLastly Ekiti people are well educated, you rarely see a family in ekiti without a professor , there are many Tourism and wonder streams and rivers in ekiti but it will be of another article, watch out.

The hidden love

This story is a story send to us by one of our readers. when I go through the story, I decided to publish it so as to teach others who are in the habits of quickly judging people of their actions without knowing what lead to source actions.


The story go does. There was a man married with a good wife and a lovely son, this family was a happy and Godly home, the wife was a trader while the husband was a civil servant .


The man was a hard-working man, he always do all what is possible to satisfy and make his wife and son happy.
One day, this man decided to acquire a loan from his bank to buy a new car for the family, because it has always be his desire to get car for the comfort of family. at the end of the month the man finally bought the car and he shows the car to his wife and the son, they were all happy and they celebrate together.


In the following morning before the son go to school, he went to the place where the car was parked and he wrote something on the car, after some minutes, the man saw what the son wrote but he didn't read, he call the son and in annoyance the man hits the the boy hand with a iron pipe, and there was a serious wounds on the boy hand. The boy was rush to the hospital and one of the boy fingers was seriously affected and the doctor advice that the finger must be cut.


After the operation on the boy finger, the boy and his went back home.
A day later, the man want to clean the new car it was then he saw what the boy wrote, what the boy wrote is " DADDY I LOVE YOU DEARLY" the man started crying and regret being quick to judge his son action. And he make a promise, to never quick in judging others of their

action.


We should all learn from this story, THE HIDDEN LOVE 

The God i serve

Many people do not believe in the power and miracle of God, they make gest of people who realy believed in God and his power and ability to do all thing. This story let us know how powerful is the name of God to those who believe in him. The Bible says " if you have faith as little as mustard seed, you will ask mountain to move and it shall move, says the bible. This story will show you powerful thing our God can do if you believed and have faith in Him.


A young man working in the army was always and constantly humiliated by his boss and other co-workers , because of his believed in God and his words. His boss who is a captain in army always humiliates him in front of the troops. The boss always called this young man a fool because of his strong believed in God.
One day the captain called on this young man and he said: Young man , take the key and go and park the jeep in front of the office to the car park. The young man replied: Sir I cannot drive!
The captain said: Then ask for assistance from your God! Show us that your God is really exists!
. The young man took the car key with faith and he walk to the vehicle, he prayed for sometimes and after some minutes he is able to drive and park the car to the car park PERFECTLY well as the captain instructed.


. As the young man came out of the car ,he saw his co-workers and the captain crying, and the all said together: We want to serve your God! The young soldier was astonished; he wanted to know why and what is going on?


The Captain also was crying, and he opened the hood of the jeep showing the young man that the car had no engine. Then the boy said: See? This is the God I serve. The God who gives life to what does not exist. You may there are things that are still impossible but with God all things are POSSIBLE.


Who do you serve?