Eclipse in Nigeria: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Celestial Spectacle

Awon omo ile Naijiria, e ku oro? (My fellow Nigerians, how are you doing?)

Mo fe kowe fun yin nipa iyalenu ti mo ri ni ojo kan. O je iru iyalenu ti afe tojo mo tun le ri. Ti mo ba so pe iru re kii se bi ti e, e ko ni gbogbo. (I want to tell you about a miracle I saw one day. It was a kind of miracle that one rarely sees. If I say it is not like it, you will not believe it.)

O je ojo ojo ogun, osu karun odun yi. Mo ti nile mi, nfi komputa se ise, nigbati mo gbure pe eniyan nfi orin ko ilu. Mo beere loju, mo ri pe oju ojo ti yi pada si ofe. Lilo lo njekujeje, nigbati mo ri pe oju ojo ti paro pada gbogbo ile. (It was on the 21st of May this year. I was at home, using my computer to work, when I heard people singing outside. I checked and saw that the sun had turned red. As I moved out slowly, I saw that the moon had covered the entire sun.)

Mo ti ri iru re tedo gbogbo aye wa, sugbon ti ti mo ri ni ojo na, ko je bi ti e. O je iyalenu ti o ba se ti mo ba fe kowe lowo yii, ko ni gbo. Emi nikan ni mo mo bi o ti ri mi. (I have seen this kind of thing everywhere in our world, but the one I saw on that day, it is not like it. It is a kind of miracle that if I tried to write it in my hand, it will not be heard. Only I know how it looked to me.)

O wa nibe fun wakati opolopo, nigbati oju ojo ti npari pada gbogbo. Gbogbo eniyan ti o wa ni ita ti nko ilu ti fa mo. A kigbe ti ekun ogede, ti akuko ogede. (It was there for a long time, while the sun was shining all around. All the people who were outside singing were praising it. They shouted like birds, like fowls.)

Leyin igba dipo, oju ojo ti bo sipo. Mo ri bi o ti npari pada gbogbo, ti o npawon pada gbogbo. (After a long time, the sun came out. I saw how it was shining all around, and it was shining on everyone.)

Iru iyalenu ti mo ri ni ojo na, emi kii se ore tedo gbogbo aye wa ti o le ri iru re. A npe iru re ni eclipse. (The kind of miracle I saw that day, I am not the only one in the whole of our world who could see it. Such a thing is called an eclipse.)

Ti o ba le ri iru re ti o wa nibe, mo ma fun o ni imori ti mo le. Bi o ba nile, o le lo si ita ki o ko awon eniyan to nko ilu. Nibo ti o ba wa, o le tan ina ki o fi owo bo bi eni ti o nko ilu. Ki o ma fi owo bo oju ojo, ki o kiyesi o bi o ti npari pada gbogbo. (If you want to see such a thing when it is there, I will give you the advice that I can. If you are at home, you can go outside and join the people who are singing. Wherever you are, you can light a fire and put your hand over it as if you are singing. Put your hand over your eyes and notice how it shines on every side.)

Iru iyalenu yii, o le je ki o ri bi aye ti ri to. O le je ki o ri bi oju ojo ti npari, ti o npawon gbogbo, ti o npa gbogbo ile. (Such a miracle, it can make you see how the world is. It can make you see how the sun shines, and it shines on everything, and it shines on the whole world.)

Nigbati mo ba nri iru iyalenu yii, emi ma nromoti ogo Oluwa. Emi ma nromoti ogo re ti o nse iyalenu ni gbogbo aye wa. (When I see such a miracle, I praise the glory of God. I praise his glory who performs miracles in our whole world.)

Awa omo ile Naijiria, awa le ma nwo opo iyalenu to wa ni aye wa. Awa le ma nromoti ogo Oluwa, ti o nse iyalenu ni gbogbo aye wa. (We Nigerians, we can always see many of these miracles. We can always praise the glory of God who performs miracles in our whole world.)

Mo dupe o. (Thank you.)