What did they say about the 2025 Ojude Oba Festival to the world? Hear it here and now: If there were ever a time and season to showcase the beauty, elegance and glory of the Southwest Nigerian fashion heritage to the universe, the Ojude Oba Festival was it.

Since its inception in 1890 as Ita-Oba Festival and later renamed Ojude Oba, the glamorous festival, an ancient Ijebu festival, and by extension, the general Yoruba festival had always been celebrated with high-end indigenous fashion like no other, season to season, and this year 2025 edition as expected was a showcase of the best ever proudly Nigerian outfits, as men and women from home and abroad dressed up, showed up and elegantly graced the occasion in absolute Nigerian attires and styles that are paralleled to none all over the world.

For a lot of people aside from the primary essence of the festival, one described by the Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun as a symbol of communal harmony where religion, tradition and modality co-exist with the people living under the banner of a shared identity, the festival points to a time to be the king and queen of the Giant of Africa in all the clothing colours and accessories that speak one fashion language, ‘beauty in all things Nigerian’.

From the showcases of aso-oke, adire, damask etc in all their kinds and colours, to the designing of the proudly Nigerian heritage fabrics into proudly Nigerian heritage styles for men and women, such as short and long iro & buba, and gele, bubu, agbada, danshiki with fila and bead accessories, the 2025 event was indeed a great time to be Nigerian.