IYE EKITI DAY CELEBRATIONS IYE DAY is an annual celebration of our dear town. It is a time set aside to celebrate us as a people: our collective and individual achievements.
Iye day celebrations which usually come up annually in November has become an annual Town Festival and witnesses a great pool of people, from all walks of life. It is a period of unusual festivities in the town. IYE DAY celebrations is a general thing as everybody in the town, old and young, indigenes and non-indigenes are involved. Usually, people are invited from all over the world to come and celebrate with us. This is the time used by the King to confer chieftaincy title on ‘friends of the town who have in one way or the contributed to the development of the town and other deserving individuals. The festivities and celebrations which is usually done on Saturdays pick with fund raisings for various developmental projects within the town. On this day of celebration, very many social displays are often displayed, and these often add to the colouration for the people. Initially, all the social and traditional groups in the town will pay homage to the King before the IYE DAY celebration is declared open officially. Generally, what the IYE DAY programme looks like on the day of celebration is a function of the reigning IEDA executives. |
IYE DAY 2015 The IYE DAY 2015 promises to be a scintillating one. It promises many different things which none of the past celebrations had witnessed.
Officially, the IYE DAY 2015's grand finale is scheduled to hold on November 28th, 2015. This date is the peak date as the 2015 celebrations have been scheduled to be a one-week programme starting from Monday, 23rd November, 2015. The tentative programme of the day-to-day activities of the event is as detailed below. DAY DATE PROGRAMME TIME 1 Monday (1) Joint prayer by entire Iye Community 23/11/15 Venue: Palace 5:00 am (2) Candle light 7:00 pm 2 Tuesday Environmental Sanitation 7-9 am 24/11/15 Youth Activities 2:00 pm 3 Wed. 25/11/15 Culture Day 2:00 pm 4 Thursday Lecture/Symposium/Talk shop 26/11/15 Venue: Iye Ekiti Town Hall 2:00 pm 5 Friday (1) Jumat Service Prayer 27/11/15 Venue: Central \mosque 1-2:30 pm (2) Football Match 4-6:30 pm 6. Saturday GRAND FINALE 28/11/15 (1) Homage payment 12 noon (2) Fund raising (3) Conferment of chieftaicy titles (4) Award/Gala night 8:30 pm 7 Sunday Thanksgiving service 29/11/15 NB: Music will be supplied by a popular musician. |