Four factors usually account for the bitter struggle in Oyo.

Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Owoade I, dissolved an unauthorised coronation committee and warned that any further activities ...

THE news of the approval of Prince Akeem Abimbola Owoade as the 46th Alaafin of Oyo Kingdom came as a cheery one. So was the ...

Igboho was the capital of Oyo Empire during the reign of Alaafin Ofinran, Egungu Oju, Alaafin Oropotomiyan, Alaafin Ajiboyede, and Alaafin Abipa, who moved Oyo from Igboho to Oyo-Ile. Igboho is a ...

A former Vice Chancellor of OAU and the Awise Awo Agbaye, Professor Wande Abimbola, has revealed how the new Alaafin of Oyo, ...

IBADAN— FOLLOWING a report that the Alaafin-designate, Prince Akeem Owoade had put traditional rites that usually precede the crowning of a new Alaafin on hold, the Head of Oyo Princes, Chief ...

No fewer than 10 royal families in Oyo have alleged marginalisation under the 1961 Alaafin chieftaincy declaration that guides ascension to the throne of the Alaafin. Currently, the declaration ...

One of the top contenders for the throne of Alaafin of Oyo, Ismail Bukola Ladigbolu, has called on his kinsfolk from the Agunloye Ruling House to unite and support the newly appointed monarch ...

“The Alaafin of Oyo is a prominent and first-class traditional ... Afolabi noted that with the current arrangement, any occupant of the Alaafin stool would lose respect from other Yoruba Obas ...

Special Adviser on Political Matters to former President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Babafemi Ojudu has urged the new Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Abimbola Owoade to rise above mere tradition ...