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The Odu Ọ̀YẸ̀KÚ Ọ̀KÀNRÀN appears for #ENDSWAT.Listen:It was the lopsided Òro pearWho cast Ifa divination for Amomo,Who at dawn proceeded to the farm;They warned himTo be spiritually mindfulAnd offer sacrificesTo prevent unforeseen circumstancesThat could lead to his sudden deathINTERPRETATIONA vessel ...

Laaroye !Adijale taketeBaba oritaA fi bi direA fi re dibiMa se mi o.Ma so beeni mi di beekoMa so beeko mi di beeniOjowu OkunrinLaaroye Ogiri okoElekun nsunkun, Laaroye nsun eje;Onimi nsu mi, Laaroye nsu ifun;A rin lanja lanja laaluA jo ...

The Aare Onakakanfo of Oodualand (Yorubaland), Iba Gani  Adams has raised the alarm over alleged infiltration Oyo State by armed terrorists.    Adams on Wednesday, in a statement issued by his media aide Mr. Kehinde Aderemi, said armed terrorists now occupied Kishi, located ...

What do I mean by this? Not all messages in Ifa are meant to be generalized. Ifa is mostly personalized for individuals. If the same Odu gave birth to us, that doesn’t mean we have the same destiny, and it’s ...

A School of thought On Tinubu’s Greeting Oonirisa While Sitting Down! I can’t use Panadol extra for another person’s headache! Not after what transpired between Ooni & Oba Akiolu of Lagos then when the latter was even mocked after his ...

4 weeks ago when I was in Europe, Nigerian government said that it might be October before international flights would land in Nigeria, I called my people in Osogbo that I might not be able to be in Osogbo during ...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has vowed to begin the move to unite Yoruba sons and daughters and to also promote the culture and tradition of Yorubaland. The first class monarch stated this while playing host to the ...

Elegua or Ellegua comes from the word Elegbara which means spirit of the trickster. When the Atlantic slave trade took place, alot of the Oodua (Yoruba) words got corrupted mis-pronounced and mis-spelled because of the Spanish dialect.Gbara – strengthElegba – spirit ...

Babalawo or Traditionalists that attend EID or obey Islamic Rules are Con-Artist known as Professional Sacrilegious Fraudsters; and better still a Spiritual Criminal! Come and defend yourself if you are one such character?

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