Oba: Where Hospitality Meets Mystery

When we talk about my hometown, even though I've only been there once in my life time, I know a bit of this and that about my hometown. So where then is my home town? In Yoruba by tribe, but my state is located in the north central part of the six geopolitical zone of Nigeria, unlike how most majority of the Yoruba people are from the western part of the country. My state is Kwara state and my home town in the state can be found in Isin local government of the state. The name of my home town is Oba, not the popular Oba the billionaire Obi Cubana is from though. So what then are the peck of my home town? Below I'd be telling you all I know about it, so without further ado, let's get to it.

Like I said, the name of my home town is Oba, and what I can call the top peck of my hometown is it people. And the reason why I said so is because they are a very friendly and hospitable self of people. The very first time I visited the place made me realise this and that's because I went alone, as though I'm a stranger and despite the fact that they don't know me, I was welcome warmly and even offered food and drinks by the people. And when they later found out I was from the state, they just smiled and said no wonder they were doing everything for me, but that regardless that's how they treat anyone that steps into the community.

So that experience coupled with what a friend told me when he needed help with the signing of an official documentation and I referred him to my hometown made me have the belief that, in truth my hometown is blessed with hospitable indigens. Aside that one other peck about my community that I find fascinating, although it might look like voodoo is their ability to made rain fall whenever they pleases, I should I say based on what happened in my presence on two occasions. What happened was that my grandparents had once told me about it based on their own experience and so when I paid it a visit, I wanted to experience it myself and I did.

There's this river that's beneath a small mountain in my village and it's said that if you fetch a water from the river and poured it on the top of the mountain beside it, the first drop of that water that flows back into the river would make rain begin to fall immediately. On the day I visited some corp members where told the same, but they don't believe and so they were led to the spot to witness it themselves and immediately the first drop flows back into the river, it began to rain beside the fact that the weather was clear prior to that. The same was tested on the next day and the same outcome plays out and this was why I also have the same belief.

Talking about what needs improvement in my hometown, I'd say it's development, if the government can position a institution in the place, build infrastructure such as roads, electricity, and hospitals, it'll experience positive transformation that'll make it becomes more better than it's at the moment.

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