Tag: Ile-Ife
Ile-Ife Crisis: Ooni Inaugurates Truth & Reconciliation Committee
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has inaugurated a truth and reconciliation committee to ensure peace between the Hausa…
Ife feud: Gov. Aregbesola vows to prosecute perpetrators
Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun has assured the Hausa Community in the state of adequate protection of their lives and…
Ile-Ife crisis: I-G deploys special force to restore peace
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim, Idris has deployed a Police Special Intervention Force (SIF) to Ile-Ife, Osun to restore…
Ile-Ife Unrest: Sen. Omoworare Appeals For Peace
Sen. Babajide Omoworare, representing Osun East (APC Ife/Ijesa) Senatorial District, has appealed to indigenes and residents of Ile-Ife to end…
Ile-Ife Crisis: Osun Govt. Declares 2-day Curfew
The Osun Government on Wednesday declared a two-day curfew in Ile-Ife over the crisis that erupted between Yoruba and Hausa…
Ooni of Ife to turn Ile-Ife to tourism haven
The Ooni of Ile- Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has pledged to turn the ancient city into a tourism haven to…
Osun CJ frees 16 inmates
Osun Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Ojo, on Thursday freed 16 inmates of both Ile-Ife Prisons and Ilesa Prisons awaiting trial.…
New Ooni of Ife presented with traditional “Ade-Are” crown
The new Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, was on Monday presented with the traditional “Ade-Are” crown as the 51st…
Ooni of Ife to be formally announced dead on Wednesday
The Obawara of Iwara-Ife, Oba Layi Adereti ,on Monday said the official proclamation of the demise of Ooni of Ife,…
Final rites of Ooni’s passage continues, body arrives Ile Ife
Jamiu Yisa The final rites of passage for the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade, Olubuse II continued at…
Ile-Ife: Anxiety mounts, women remain indoors as Oro festival enters second day
Many women in the ancient town of Ile-Ife remained indoors on Saturday as the annual Oro festival entered its second…
Ile-Ife mourns Ooni of Ife, markets shut, commercial activities halted
Nicholas Ojo-Awo/Ile-Ife As news of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade demise continues to circulate, his subjects, admirers and…
Adejobi, OAU lecturer assassinated
A Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Dr. Deji Adejobi has been killed…
Aregbesola unveils symbol of Yoruba culture
Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Nigeria’s state of Osun on Saturday in Ile-Ife unveiled an Ife ancestral monument, popularly called Ori-olokun,…
Twin-X Marries
Keni Akintoye of the Twin-X Hip Hop group has tied the nuptial knot with his heartthrob, Olabisi Adeoti, a medical…