The News Agency of Nigeria reports the installation was held alongside a celebration of Kuku’s 80th birthday.
Browsing: Oba Sikiru Adetona
This was said to be the first title on anyone outside the South West by Awujale in his 64 years reign.
This was revealed by revered Columnist and former Editor Sunday Tribune, Festus Adedayo, in his weekly Sunday column.
According to Asiwaju Progressives Oyo, Tinubu will use the visit to hold court with the Alaafin, Obas and chiefs in his domain.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Adetona sued the Chairman of Fresh FM and Gospel Musician, Ayefele, over a live radio programme aired on the station in 2019.
Olukotun, the Oba Sikiru Adetona Professorial Chair of Governance, Political Science Department, Olabisi Onabanjo University made this known in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Lagos.
For he alone, as a point of fact, has the rare distinction till date of being the only monarch in Nigeria who has not only reigned, but also has the rare honour and privilege to dine and wine along with 15 Nigerian Presidents, 23 State Governors, about 40 Council Chairmen in his own primary domain of Ijebu-Ode, three Ooni of Ile-Ife, two Alaafin of Oyo, four Alake of Egbaland, two Akarigbo of Remoland and 11 Olubadan of Ibadanland
As it was with Awujale in Ijebuland 39 years ago, the end of this chapter of Sanusi’s life is not the end of the story. Whether, like the Awujale, Sanusi returns to his throne or not, whether he returns to Kano or not, the book is not finished, yet
The event took place in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State on Monday.
Adetona spoke at the 2019 edition of the Ojude Oba festival at the Awujale Pavillion on Tuesday in Ijebu-Ode
Afolabi Otufowora, Globacom Marketing and Communications Head, Lagos/Ogun, made the call at a press conference to announce the company’s sponsorship plans for the 2018 edition of the Ojude Oba Festival in Ijebu-Ode.
Adetona, who showed much vigour at the event, thanked the people for their prayers and support while delivering his speech on Sunday at the festival in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun.
Awujale is one of the most forthright accounts of the personal odysseys of a traditional ruler who through longevity and other circumstances of life has earned immortality
Obasanjo’s position was contained in his letter to Oba Sikiru Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, who had made sundry allegations against the former president in his recently published autobiography
‘All the enormous goodwill which Obasanjo carried into office was squandered with a performance that left him with a second term short of tangible achievements’
The revered monarchs have been at loggerheads over the classification of obas in Yorubaland
The Alake said this on Monday in reaction to the Awujale’s comment last week at the launch of an endowment for a professorial chair in honour of Oba Adetona at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago-Iwoye
Adetona, who spoke in Lagos at the launch of an endowment fund for a professorial chair in governance in the Department of Political Science, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, said it had become imperative to set the records straight since Oba Gbadebo had not disowned the statement credited to him on the issue
Oba Ogunwusi’s key message: unity, peace and cooperation among traditional rulers and peoples of Yorubaland.
He is clear-minded in that mission.
The President said he shares their grief as they mourn Kuku, a highly respected businessman and philanthropist, who touched many lives positively in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State and Nigeria as a whole