Oba Abdulraheem Adeoti, the Olomu of Omu-Aran, in his remark, commended the social club for the annual event, adding that they are doing the community more good than they think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oba Adeoti appealed to the students to shun violence and be good ambassadors of the ancient town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, government alone cannot shoulder the wants and demands of every community, hence the need for collective efforts to achieving the desired target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The traditional, who described running as a good form of exercise, urged the youth not to lose focus in combining sports with their academic pursuit for them to stay healthy and achieve excellence in their studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chairman of the Organising committee, Mr Jide Dada, said there are plans to open the marathon for everyone to participate but informed that the committee will take a look at how possible it would for the 5th edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He explained that the target of the marathon is been met as the girl who won the 3rd edition retained her title in the 4th edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd placements attracted N50, 000, N20, 000, N15, 000 and N10, 000 prize monies respectively in form of scholarships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mistura Salihu, a student of Omu-Aran High School, Irepodun local government area of Kwara, has retained her Skylarks’ Omu-Aran Marathon Race title in the female category. Salihu who won the 3rd edition of the race with a time of 49min:11seconds returned the 4th edition with 48min: 22 seconds. Promise Atolagbe of Aperan Comprehensive High School, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[626,33,1222,1221,1220,1223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}