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The Oba said this at an event organised to mark the 30th anniversary of Kola Olootu as a radio presenter in Ibadan on Sunday. The monarch, who is also the Chairman, Yoruba Obas Conflicts ...
Ojude Oba festivalOjude Oba, “the King’s forecourt, ” is a prominent Yoruba festival in Ijebu Ode, Ogun state. It is celebrated on the third day of the Muslim festival, Eid al-Kabir.
The Pan-Yoruba sociopolitical group, Afenifere, on Wednesday asked President Bola Tinubu to wade into the local government ...
National Orientation Agency, (NOA) has decried the gradual intrusion of foreign culture into the highly referred Yoruba cultural identity.The Oyo state Director of the Agency, Aderogba Akanbi was ...
Chief Balogun Kuku who once used to celebrate the Odeda festival converted to Islam and could no longer participate.
The Oba-elect would have watched, I assumed, "Ogbori Elemoso", a super epic Yoruba film by Baba Lere Paimo aka Eda Onile Ola, for him to know how the name of the town, Ogbomoso, and the Soun title ...
The Ojude Oba Festival stands as one of Nigeria’s most culturally significant indigenous celebrations, deeply embedded in the traditions of the Ijebu ...
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has donated three acres of land to the International Council for Ifa Religion (ICIR) for construction of World Ifa Temple and to promote the activities ...
Ashipa, A Yoruba Awori, whose son, Ado became the Oba of Lagos was supported by the Benin royalty whose agents at that time were on frequent visits to Lagos. We should take not a significance ...
He was ultimately crowned Oba, or King of the Yoruba in North America, by the ooni, the spiritual leader of the Yoruba people in Nigeria. Image Adefunmi I in 1997.
Netflix historical drama “Elesin Oba, The King’s Horseman,” will become only the the second Yoruba-language film to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, after Tunde Kelani ...
Netflix historical drama “Elesin Oba, The King’s Horseman,” will become only the the second Yoruba-language film to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, after Tunde Kelani ...