July 10, (THEWILL) – The National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) has recognised Farooq Oreagba, the businessman, who stole the show at the 2024 Ojude Oba Festival, as an honorary ambassador for the council. Obi Asika, the director general of NCAC, announced the recognition on his Instagram page while displaying the certificate of recognition awarded to Oreagba. “I could not be happier to announce him as an Honorary Ambassador for the National Council for Arts and Culture @ncac_nigeria and celebrate him and his boundless energy and spirit,” he wrote on his social media timeline.
“He is now the King of Steeze and brought global attention to #OjudeOba, the key traditional festival of Ijebu Ode celebrating the Awujale. For at least the last decade, he has been getting on his horse, dressed in magnificent Asoke attire and representing his family and culture. “Among the many eye-catching attendees at the Ojude Oba festival this year, Oreagba stole the show.
Clad in a flamboyant green and yellow Asooke Agbada, he rode majestically on horseback, a photo of which went viral and earned him the title ‘King of Steeze’. Born in July 1966 in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun, he attended Ijebu-Ode Grammar School and is an alumnus of King’s College Lagos. He earned a degree at Edward Greenes College, Oxford in London, and secured a Bachelor of Engineering, Combined Engineering Studies from Coventry University (from 1985 to 1989).
Oreagba has assumed several roles in the finance industry .
