The normal ruler of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe, has recommended Globacom for serving to change into Ofala right into a world-renowned cultural pageant.
Talking on the 2026 version of the development at Ime Obi, Onitsha, Anambra State, on Friday, the monarch paid particular tribute to the generation corporate for being a essential sponsor of Ofala for the previous fifteen years.
“Their partnership has reworked the pageant from a palace ritual to a world-renowned cultural pageant owes an excellent deal to useful partnership. Since 2011, Globacom has stood with us as our essential
spouse – now fifteen consecutive years of unwavering dedication”, Agbogidi stated, including that “ In excellent instances and difficult instances, Globacom has helped us maintain the authenticity of Ofala whilst bettering its presentation, documentation, broadcast and international achieve. They have got helped take a residing heritage to the worldwide degree”.
He additionally applauded the imaginative and prescient of the Chairman of Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga, Jr., for his dedication to the preservation of Nigeria’s cultural heritage.
“I thank Globacom and its Chairman, Otunba (Dr) Mike Adenuga, Jr., GCON, a real guy of tradition, for his imaginative and prescient and trust that tradition isn’t a luxurious however a basis for harmony”, Achebe mentioned.
He famous that the theme of this 12 months’s version, “Igba Mbo, Iga N’Iru” – Try and Advance – is “a decision to business, to excellence, to self-improvement and to collective development. It displays the spirit of our forebears who constructed a kingdom at the Niger, and it speaks to our formative years who should raise that heritage ahead with endeavor and objective”.
In his goodwill message to the Igwe and Onitsha Kingdom, Dr Adenuga stated, “our affiliation with the Ofala Competition since 2011 has been a lot more than a company partnership. It’s been a dating which we cherish deeply and regard as a privilege”.
He expressed his gratitude to the Igwe for the chance given Globacom to give a contribution to the preservation, party and wider projection of the worthwhile cultural heritage. “It offers us nice pleasure to sign up for Your Majesty and the folk of Onitsha every 12 months in showcasing to Nigeria, Africa and the broader global the sweetness, dignity and enduring values represented by way of Ofala,” Dr. Adenuga concluded.