AUGUST 31, 2023 – This year’s festival with a theme: ‘Better. Stronger. Together, will run over a three-week period in the month of October with the peaks scheduled for two days, Iru and Azu Ofala – October 14 and October 15, 2023, respectively. Addressing a news conference on behalf of the Ofala Steering Committee, Mr. Nn’emeka […]
Message By His Majesty, Nnaemeka Alfred Ugochukwu Achebe, CFR, mni, Obi of Onitsha, Agbogidi, at the 2019 Ofala, Saturday, October 11, 2019. Introduction I welcome everyone to this year’s Ofala. The festival which is the high point of Onitsha Ceremonial Cycle and is also the period of homecoming for Onitsha indigenes. The Ofala usually provides […]
NOVEMBER 16, 2022 – The award is in recognition of the outstanding and excellent contributions of the Ofala festival to the development and preservation of Nigeria’s cultural heritage. The award was made on the occasion of the First United Nations World Tourism Organisation ( UNWTO) Global Conference on linking tourism, culture, and the creative industries […]
Chimaobi Nwaiwu, NNEWI The Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, Agbogidi yesterday described his 20-year reign as the traditional ruler of Onitsha as a journey of leadership charged with the sole purpose of fast-forwarding an ancient traditional society to the 21st century. In an address at his 2022 Ofala Festival of Igwe Achebe, he said […]
It was sea of heads weekend in Onitsha, Anambra State at the commemoration of the 20th coronation anniversary of the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe as well as the 2022 Ofala Festival. Special signatories were present to grace the occasion, while others sent their representatives. Among them were Anambra Governor Chukwuma Soludo, and his […]