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Mayegun Installation: You have no power beyond Oyo, Erelu Oodua tells Alaafin

…..Slams Awujale Over Comment On Secret Burial For Traditional Rulers Criticisms have continued to trail the decision of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, over the installation of the popular Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde, as the Mayegun of Yoruba land, allegedly with an instruction that he should not prostrate for some categories of traditional…

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Alaafin writes Buhari says anarchy may loom as Yoruba will mobilise OPC, Agbekoya to face killer herdsmen

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi has written an epistle to President Muhammadu Buhari of Yoruba’s readiness to mobilise Agbekoya, Oodua Peoples Congress and others to defend the race against the incessant killings and insecurity in the Southwest zone. The monarch has therefore warned Buhari of looming anarchy in the country generally if the…

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Fasoranti’s Daughter’s Killing May Force Each Ethnic Group To Adopt Self-Protection, Says Alaafin

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III has warned the Federal Government that the killing of the daughter of Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs Funke Olakunrin, may force each ethnic group in Nigeria to result to self-help security which may not be in the interest of the country. Oba Adeyemi made this…

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HOW ALAAFIN’S POLICE ORDERLY CAUSED ABACHA’S SCARE AT MY WEDDING, BY YINKA FABOWALE

Dateline: Saturday, March 29, 1997. Ebun Olojede Street, off Festac 1st Gate, Amuwo, Lagos. The mood at the traditional wedding/introduction ceremony just got upbeat as the bride after the usual motions of customary courtesies and bestowal of blessings by her family and the groom’s, smilingly took her seat beside me on the special nuptial chairs…

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