In truth, Olokun Festival is, no doubt, the biggest cultural event in Lagos, with the ancient town of Badagry always the venue.
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The Aare Onakakanfo made the call at the 2023 edition of Okota Festival in Arigidi Akoko town in Ondo State.
Iba Adams made the assertion in Ikeja, Lagos, during the celebration of his fifth anniversary as the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland.
The Yoruba Generalissimo said this on Saturday during his fifth anniversary as the Aare Onaakanfo of Yorubaland in Lagos.
The event, organized by the Olokun Festival Foundation, will climaxed with the grand finale coming up in Badagry.
It gave the warning in a statement issued after an emergency meeting held at Omole Phase 2, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday
Adams made the plea in a video that has since gone viral on the social media and obtained by The Nation
He said it is the right of the Nigerian youths to express their views against police brutality and the state of the nation.
Adams, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, in Lagos on Thursday said the hike in petrol price and electricity tariff would multiply hardship of the masses.
The Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, and Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams, made the appeal at the weekend during the 2020 edition of Olumo Festival in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital
He dismissed the insinuations in some quarters that the motive behind the formation of Amotekun was political.
Prominent Yoruba leaders on Thursday called for synergy among regional security outfits in Nigeria to ensure better security and proper coordination in the country.
The newly installed chiefs, 16 of them, were drawn from different professions.
Part of the strategies, Adamu said, is his plan to partner with members of the Oodua Peoples Congress, led by the Rare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, to reduce the spate of insecurity in the region.
Adams, who is the Leader of Oodua People’s Congress, described Olakunrin’s killing by suspected herdsmen in Ondo State as one too many by Fulanis who are invading the South West in their numbers and perpetrating atrocities
A two-man team of officials from the US Embassy in Lagos, led by the Political Officer, Shashank Iyer, met with Adams on Monday in his Lagos home on the issue.
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams, has charged the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on the need to be proactive in tackling the various security issues in the country.
The Aare Onakakanfo in Council said this in a communique issued on Sunday after its extraordinary meeting in Lagos
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Chief Gani Adams, on Wednesday urged Nigerians to imbibe the lessons of June 12 struggle by not giving up on the nation’s democracy.
Nigerians have continued to react to the last minute postponement of the general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission.