Tag: Ooni
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Yoruba Nation: Sunday Igboho meets Obas, recounts how Ooni facilitated my release from Benin prison
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Yoruba Nation agitator, Mr. Sunday Igboho has restated his commitment to the project. “My priority remains the security of Yorubaland. Our people are being killed, and we cannot continue like…
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OF ROYALS AND UNROYAL ENTANGLEMENTS
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By Tunde Olusunle Royalty enjoyed tremendous reverence when my generation was growing up. As a schoolboy in Benin City those days, the Oba savoured profound reverence and conjured trepidation amongst…
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Pomp, colour, controversies and intrigues at Alaafin’s coronation
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By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 I was nowhere near the venue of the coronation of the new Alaafin of Oyo but, thanks to technology, I fed my eyes…
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Monarchy, democracy and development in Nigeria
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By Wale Ajao waleajao2002@gmail.com History may turn out to become an unintended tool of self-destruction if its interpretation and essence is misused or misunderstood advertently or inadvertently. As the younger…
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No supremacy dispute between Alaafin, Ooni -Olugbon
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The Vice Chairman, Oyo State Council of Obas, Oba Olushola Alao, has said that there is no supremacy dispute between the new Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Owoade and Ooni…
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Ooni, Sultan, Olu of Warri, others graced 46th Alaafin’s coronation
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By Akinade Feyisayo The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi; the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar; Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu; Aare…
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Alaafin Adeyemi, Bode Thomas, Tinubu, and the Oonirisa
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By Bola Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 You may have heard the story of the very unfortunate encounter between Alaafin Adeniran Adeyemi 11 (the father of the present Alaafin of…