The Yoruba intelligentsia under the auspices of The Yoruba Leadership and Peace Initiative (TYLPI) has scheduled what it called a crucial retreat, in Ibadan, Oyo State Capital on Thursday, to discuss the unity and progress of the race in Nigeria.
The retreat which is scheduled to hold at the Conference Hall, Lead City University, Ibadan, will have participants from all Southwest state and others, including Kwara, Kogi, Edo, and all parts of Nigeria and the Diaspora where Yorubas are spread..
A statement by the spokesman for the group, Mr Folu Olamiti, said that Yoruba leaders, captains of industries, those from the academia, students, market men and women, artisans and different brands of professionals have been invited to partake in the retreat.
According to the statement, the retreat will focus on ways and means to fostering the Unity of the Yoruba with intent to forge a common endeavour among the people in line with the aspirations of the race progenitors.
It said that with the outcome of the Retreat, TYLPI would be in a good stead to network with other similar groups and like minds to spearhead advocacy on promotion of good neighborliness among the Yoruba and the sound leadership which it said the south-west required to attain a new height in Nigeria.
It said TYLPI has always been inclined towards reviving Education which it noted has always given the Yoruba an edge as an ethnic group as well as promoting economic and cultural advancement of the people at all times.
The statement said that participants at the retreat would have the right opportunity to espouse ideas and suggestions meant to revive the fast dwindling Yoruba heritage through which it noted the Yoruba ethnic group for years, registered as the pace-setter for others in Nigeria.
TYLPI a non-partisan, non-political and non-religious group had before now had held series of meetings on its core aim and objective of forging a common endeavour among the Yoruba, while the idea of the Retreat scheduled for Thursday is part of efforts to widen its horizon both locally and internationally. [myad]
