‘Obinrin Owu’, otherwise known as OWU WOMEN LEAGUE, a social-economic and cultural group among the Yoruba nation, South Western states, Nigeria, has launched a sustainable battle against poverty by fronting a three-day training in tie and dye fabrics for its members in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Monday September 20,2021.
Oba Ogunleye and the Owu women
As a female wing of the Royal Union of Owu People (RUOP), the Owu Women League, has established for itself, a pinnacle of self-empowerment scheme including vocational trainings that would enhance series of skilled acquisition to sustain structured elimination of poverty in the group.
The League, has in the last three years, under the leadership of Dr Chief (Mrs )Jolaoluwa Opaleye, Faderera of Owu kingdom, embarked on training and production of house-keeping materials of various categories, small-scale branding and packaging of preserved farm products including ‘ofada rice’ vegetables, toiletries and detergents.
The tie and dye of fabrics, a commercial activity synonymous with the ambience of Abeokuta in Ogun State, is the theme of the current three-day programme which began at the Olowu’s Palace, Abeokuta on Monday under the tutorship of a renown senior lecturer in garment construction, pattern drafting, principles and techniques in textile and textile production, at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Dr. Mrs Olufunmilayo Olasunbo Brades.
Addressing the participants, drawn from various Owu towns and villages across the South West states of Nigeria, Oba Olufemi Ogunleye, Towulade Akinale, admonished women to tighten up their loins in readiness to surmount the challenges inherent in the current hardship in Nigeria and ready for creativity and reinvention among strategies for survival.
Oba Ogunleye lecturing Owu women
Oba Ogunleye commended the leadership of the Owu Women League for their doggedness to fight poverty by exposing their members to innovation that can sustain their drive to survive, adding that he was already working with a Bee-keeping body in Ogun State with a view to sponsoring the women for training in the bee-keeping business.
Earlier, Faderera Owu, Chief Mrs. Jolaoluwa Opaleye, Chief Mrs. Bola Obasanjo, Olori Bosun Dosunmu, Olori Olowu, and Balogun Erunmu Owu, Abeokuta, Gen. Ekundayo Opaleye, had one after the other, extolled the qualities of Owu women in taking care of their homes and wards, for which they must be encouraged and assisted to win the war against poverty.
