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Ooni, Alaafin feud is needless controversy

Daily Dispatch August 24, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 (Published in the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper edition of Sunday, 24 August, 2025). “Chieftaincy titles, the crux of the current face-off between the Ooni and Alaafin, have these days become so debased they are

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Alaafin, Ooni Under Spell…..Say Traditionalists

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2025

The Traditional Religion Worshippers Association, Osun State, has said the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Owoade, and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, may be under a spell due to repeated clashes between them. The President of the group, Oluseyi Atanda, said members of the association needed to perform rituals to settle the disputes […]

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Alaafin & his Media Aide Warning!

Daily Dispatch August 19, 2025

By Elu Omo Elu Whoever should be appointed to write for a palace like that of Alaafin should be someone with deep sense of wisdom and knowledge. That warning piece by whoever writes it as Bode Durojaiye is not only embarrassing but also unimaginable with those disparaging words used. Yorùbá will say pẹlẹ lakọ o […]

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Battle Of Supremacy: Alaafin Gives Ooni 48 HoursTo  Revoke Okanlomo Title Or Face Consequences

Daily Dispatch August 18, 2025

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade, has issued a stern warning to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, demanding the revocation of the Okanlomo of Yorubaland chieftaincy title recently conferred on businessman Dotun Sanusi. In a statement signed by his Director of Media and Publicity, Bode Durojaiye, the Alaafin described the […]

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Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, a personal friend I will miss forever, says Sultan of Sokoto

Daily Dispatch April 24, 2022

Press Statement His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, the Sultan of Sokoto and Chairman, National Traditional Rulers Council of Nigeria (NTRCN), has reacted to the death by the midnight Friday April 22, 2022 of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III. The Nigeria’s most prominent monarch made the reaction when, upon […]

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Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, dies at 83

Daily Dispatch April 23, 2022

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has passed on. He was 83 years old. The top Yoruba monarch died in the late hours of Friday, according to palace officials. Adeyemi died at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti. The late Alaafin’s first son, Prince ‘Tunde, and other children had received the […]