The Olugbon of Orile-Igbon, Oba Francis Alao has declared that there is no more supremacy battle between the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi. Oba ...

Any fair reflection on the present controversy surrounding the Alaafin’s place within contemporary governance must begin with that honesty. Oyo’s historical relegation did not arise from a single ...

IBADAN— THE President of the Yoruba Council Worldwide, YCW, Aare Hassan Oladotun has decried the ongoing feud between the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Owoade and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, ...

Di traditional tussle of who be di first and highest king for Yorubaland still dey go on as di Alaafin of Oyo don tok say na im be di superior monarch. Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Owoade, tok say e ...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade, has faulted the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, regarding the recent conferment of the chieftaincy title of Okanlomo of Yorubaland on ...

Facts have emerged on the genesis of the brewing rift between the newly installed Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. The seeming rift came to public attention ...

Prince Lukman Gbadegesin, one of the contenders for the Alaafin of Oyo stool, has filed a lawsuit at the Oyo State High Court challenging the appointment of Prince Akeem Owoade as the new Alaafin. The ...

A supposed bitter royal supremacy battle was said to be brewing among two of the highest kings in Yorubaland The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Owoade, addressed the purported feud between him and the ...

When he was a child, my immediate younger brother, Abiodun, had a piggy bank made of clay. It was a treasure prized beyond measure. Two adults working in my father’s construction company – Bisi ...

As the curtain falls on the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi 111, Deputy Editor EMMANUEL OLADESU writes on the unique life and times of one Africa’s most powerful and colourful monarchs. Yorubaland ...