The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji, has allayed fears over the delay in the installation of Chief Theresa Oyekanmi as the substantive Iyalode of Ibadanland.
Browsing: Adeola Oloko
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the residents embarked on a peaceful protest to the palace of the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji
The annual festival is scheduled to begin on Monday (today)
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the twins, abducted seven days ago, were released in Lagos on Monday afternoon by the abductors after collecting a ransom of N10 million
The monarch spoke in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, while hosting hundreds of Ibadan indigenes who paid homage at his Popoyemoja palace as part of activities marking this year’s Ibadan Week
The governor said this in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy, Yomi Layinka, and made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Thursday
The Ibadan Council of Obas on Monday issued a 21-day deposition notice to the Olubadan of Ibadanland
Apparently reacting to a statement credited to two high chiefs on the proposed conferment of the honourary chieftaincy titles on deserving individuals, the frontline monarch accused the two high chiefs of contradicting themselves by saying one thing in the print media on Wednesday and another thing in the electronic media on Thursday
The group in a statement at the weekend by its Coordinator, Dr. Adesola Okanlawon, said verbal aggression and words deployed by the Olubadan’s media aide in the wake of the Oyo State Government’s 1959 Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration review and subsequent elevation of some traditional rulers and Chiefs have been very inflammatory and inciting.
The position of the traditional ruler was made known on Tuesday by his Director, Media and Public Affairs, Adeola Oloko
Oloko told the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan on Monday that the formal process of removing the Iyaloja was consequently yet to be completed