Ira Day 2025: Onira of Ira Champions Community Growth, Development, Urges Sons, Daughters To Prioritise Community Development

The Onira of Ira land, His Royal Highness, Oba Abdulwahab Oyewale Oyetoro has called on the sons and daughters of Ira land to prioritise community service and development to enhance rapid growth of the community.

Kabiesi Onira made the clarion call in his address at the Ira day celebration held on Saturday, December 2025, urging the community indigenes to always visit home and champion developmental strides.

According to him, “ Ira is your home, and I urge all the sons and daughters of Ira community to always remember home for developmental projects. Let us join hands together to move the community forward. May God continue to be with you all.”

Kabiesi therefore acknowledged appreciated the presence of royal fathers from neighbouring communities, government officials and community stakeholders for gracing the occasion. He equally commented the efforts of the National Executives, planning and implementation committee and sub-committees for make the event to be successful.

In his opening remark, the National President, the Ira Descendants’ Union, Engr. Dr. B.J Bakinde described the 2025 Ira day celebration as unique, featuring the launching of a five hundred million naira Ira Development Trust Fund. The President noted that the National Executives consider the Trust Fund to assist brilliant indigent students in the community.

“The mission is to establish an educational development trust fund to serve as the vehicle to acquire our vision. Part of the fund will be used for infrastructural development of our schools, such as Ira Grammar School and two primary schools, to give them a facelift,” he stated.

Also speaking, the chairman of the 2025 Ira Day Planning and Implementation Committee, Mr. Olabode Rauf, appreciated Kabiesi and the national executives for entrusting the committee to plan the 2025 day. He added that history celebration is significant to the growth and development of Ira commuting through the launch and establishment of Ira Educational Trust.

In his goodwill message, Chief Kayode Adebiyi, the Kure of Offa and Ira congratulated Kabiesi and the entire Ira community on the historical event. He therefore made the pledge of four million naira to support the educational development trust fund.

Furthermore, the Deputy Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon. Ojo Olayiwola, felicitated with the Onira of Ira and the community at large. While urging the community members to prioritise development, he donated the sum of five hundred thousand naira to support the educational trust fund.

On his part, the Executive Chairman, Oyun LG, Hon. Chief Akanbi Kamar Olarewaju, pledges to renovate a primary school fully within the Ira community to mark the 2025 Ira day celebration. He congratulated Kabiesi Onira of Ira and the entire community on the historic event.

While the Kabiesi Elemona of Ilemona, Oba Nurudeen Alowonle Yusuf, represented by Hon. Tunji Agboola, donated the sum of N2.5M to the commute trust fund. He congratulated Onira of Ira and the entire community on the remarkable event.

The event was attended by notable politicians, royal fathers, and community stakeholders, adding splendor and glamour to the celebration.