Ondo workers, students to wear native attire on Fridays

The Ondo State Government has directed workers and students in the state to wear traditional attire to work and school every Friday.

This came after a meeting of the state executive council,

Ondo State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Adewale Akinlosotu, disclosed this, explaining that the directive emanating from the meeting of the state executive council was to preserve the Yoruba culture.

He said, “Basically, we are declaring Friday as a cultural day. For students of both private and public schools, it is permissible to wear their cultural attire to schools on Fridays.

“You will agree with me that your culture makes who you are. With the Western civilisation today, culture is going into extinction. We have to make sure that we protect our culture from going into extinction.

“We want to commend Mr Governor for his interest in this sector to make sure that our culture is protected.

“This is one of the things we are going to be doing. Hopefully, in the future or in the near future, we are going to come up with another programme that will enhance our culture.”

Recall that Governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, in 2021 made it compulsory for all the public and civil servants to wear Adire to work every Thursday, which he said was to boost the production, promotion and marketing of Adire Osun, a locally-made fabric.