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Meet longest serving over 200 year old servant, who has served 3 Obas in Alaafin’s palace (VIDEO)

The over 200 year old servant popularly known as Baba Kekere while some call him Baba Keji has reportedly survived three Obas in Alaafins palace. Baba Kekere who is the head of palace slave, is still alive and agile. In a video obtained by LiveTimesNG, the old man revealed how the reign of Oba Lamidi…

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Ailment that killed Alaafin Lamidi Adeyemi, palace source revealed

By Taiwo Oluwadare The Alaafin of Oyo, Lamidi Adeyemi III, passed on after complications associated with prostate enlargement, a family source confirmed, stressing that the 83-year-old monarch had recently said the condition was going to claim his life. The monarch passed on at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital in Ado Ekiti, the capital of…

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Chronological history of the Alaafin of Oyo empire from c.1210 till date

By Ayomide Akinbode and Ayo Ojeniyi The Alaafin was an absolute king; his word was law. He had the power of life and death. He’s iku baba yeye, alase ekeji orisa (the almighty, the ruler and companion of the gods). In the actual working of the government, however, the Alaafin was an absolute monarch. He…

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Alao mourns Oba Adeyemi, says Yoruba lost royal titan

A leading gubernatorial aspirant in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Engineer Oyedele Hakeem Alao, has described the demise of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, who joined his ancestors on Friday, as the passage of a royal titan in Yorubaland. This is just as he said his last encounter with…

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Alaafin’s death: Gbolarumi commiserates with people of Oyo State

Former deputy Governor and next Oyo State Governor hopeful, His Excellency Barr. Hazeem Gbolarumi, has today Saturday 22nd of April 2022, commiserated with the Oyo-mesi, family, friends, associates, subjects and the government and people of Oyo state over the transition of Alaafin, Oba Adeyemi, the third from the Alowodu Ruling House saying the nation and…

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Conference of Oke-Ogun Obas and Chiefs Mourn Alaafin

……We Have Lost A Father Figure – Aseyin The Conference of Oke-Ogun Obas and Chiefs have commiserated with the immediate family of late Oba Lamidi Adeyemi 111 and the rest of the Oyo kingdom over the death of the revered monarch. In a statement signed by the Chairman of the Conference, Oba Dr. Abdulganiy Salawudeen…

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See body of late Alaafin, Oba Adeyemi as prayer is held in his honour (VIDEO)

The chief Imam of Oyo , Sheikh Moshood Ajokideru has been spotted in a video leading the Janaza prayers in honour of the late revered monarch, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi the third. This was after it was earlier announced that the remains of the late Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, the Alaafin of Oyo will be…

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Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Adeyemi is dead

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, 83, died Saturday morning at the Afe Babalola University teaching hospital in Ekiti State following a brief ailment, according to multiple news reports. Alaafin of Oyo is the third from the Alowodu Ruling House. The remains of the top Yoruba traditional ruler were brought to Oyo in…

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Osinbajo shares N250,000 each to Oyo APC delegates in Ibadan (PHOTOS)

Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and presidential aspirant has donated N250,000 to each of the All Progressive Congress (APC) delegate in Oyo State, Oyo APC stakeholders revealed. The VP made this donation on Friday in Ibadan during a consultation visit to the APC stakeholders in the state. In several photos shared online by…

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Chrisland 10 year old student, Julia drops new video, says ‘I’m back like I never left’ (VIDEO)

Miss Julia, a 10-year-old student of Chrisland School has released a new video on social media after her sextape with her male schoolmates went viral. This was after her mum cried out over allegation that her daughter was gang-raped by her fellow students. Chrisland’s 10 years old girl on Likee as Bahdgirl4k shared the video…

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