Despite an appeal by the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, to Nigerian youths not to lose hope in Nigeria, a teenage girl has reportedly taken her life after alighting from a motorcycle around Gbodofon area of Abeokuta and jumping into a river.
It was gathered that the lady committed the act after receiving a call from a yet-to-be-identified person.
According to eyewitnesses, they were looking at her from a distance and did not really know what she said or heard on the call.
Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi made the appeal to Nigerian youths while noting that the current challenges confronting the nation will be surmounted and the country will rise stronger and better.
He advised the youths to be creative, focused and deploy their God-given talent to develop the country and take it beyond its current abysmal position.
The prominent monarch spoke at ABUAD on Friday, during the 10th convocation ceremony of the private university held at the Ado- Ekiti campus of the institution.
At the ceremonies, no fewer than 1,673 graduates bagged different degrees, with 121 of them decorated with first-class honors.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi; (Ọjájá II) (born 17 October 1974) is the 51st and current Ooni of Ife.
He is the traditional ruler/monarch of the Yoruba kingdom of Ile-Ife. He ascended to the throne of his forebearers in 2015 succeeding the deceased Oba Okunade Sijuwade, who was the 50th Ooni of Ife.
Ooni Adeyeye Ogunwusi was selected from the Giesi Ruling House of Ile-Ife, amongst indigenes who were also heirs to the throne on 26 October 2015. He received his staff of office on 7 December 2015. He has been described as an ‘astute entrepreneur driven by the need to turn impossibilities into possibilities.
Oba Ogunwusi is the spiritual leader of the Yoruba people now saddled with the responsibility of making supplications to God and the Òrìṣà on behalf of his people and the world at large during annual festivals such as Olojo.