{"id":701018,"date":"2019-09-08T07:40:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T07:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/08\/women-muslims-protest-against-oro-festival-in-lagos\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T07:40:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T07:40:21","slug":"women-muslims-protest-against-oro-festival-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/08\/women-muslims-protest-against-oro-festival-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Women, Muslims Protest Against &#8216;Or\u00f2 Festival&#8217; In Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>According to a video making rounds online, Muslims and women were seen protesting against \u201cOr\u00f2 festival\u201d in Ikorodu, Lagos.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_704966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-704966\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-704966\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/67753689_155929285477302_1610853413528190044_n.jpg\" alt=\"The muslims and women protesting against Oro festival\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-704966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Protesters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Or\u00f2 is an annual traditional practice that forbids women and non-participating people from stepping out during the ritual as it is only celebrated by male descendants who are paternal natives to the specific locations where the particular event is taking place.<\/p>\n<p>People practising Islamic religion, alongside women filed out in their numbers, thus, breaking the curfew on the day of the Oro festival to protest against the festival.<\/p>\n<h4>Read Also:\u00a0Photos From BamBam And TeddyA\u2019s Traditional Wedding<\/h4>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2H0EaBHlzg\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a video making rounds online, Muslims and women were seen protesting against \u201cOr\u00f2 festival\u201d in Ikorodu, Lagos. The Protesters Or\u00f2 is an annual traditional practice that forbids women and non-participating people from stepping out during the ritual as it is only celebrated by male descendants who are paternal natives to the specific locations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":701019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Women, Muslims Protest Against &#039;Or\u00f2 Festival&#039; In Lagos - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/08\/women-muslims-protest-against-oro-festival-in-lagos\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Women, Muslims Protest Against &#039;Or\u00f2 Festival&#039; In Lagos - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"According to a video making rounds online, Muslims and women were seen protesting against \u201cOr\u00f2 festival\u201d in Ikorodu, Lagos. 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