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Ase is a component of the life force breathed into each human being by Olodumare; it is spiritual power; it is the power to create everything – gods, ancestors, spirits, humans, animals, plants, rocks, rivers and voiced words such as ...

Egungun Festival Oyo 51 Egungun from different compounds came to give Iwure (prayer) for the Alaafin of Oyo. Jenju Alapinni Mahuru Alaafin Elegbaa Oya Alaodi Paje Ojebode Olonnu Iseke Panlaya Olotefon Olukotun Asalu Oba Lebe Oje Agborako Pekepeke Alapinni Irunmole ...

Fresh reports have appeared that the Russian Aerospace Forces conducted heavy air strikes in the area where the Mi-8 helicopter had been shot downed by the Army of Conquest (Jaish al-Fatah). According to pro-jihadists sources, Russian air strikes were targeted ...

The US-backed moderate rebels jihadists released a video, depicting the jihadi fighters that are desecrating the bodies of 2 dead Russian servicemen. The footage also depicts the buring wreckage of the Russian Mi-8 helicopter that had been shot down earlier ...

The Syrian army, supported by the Russian Aerospace Forces, has been developing a counter-offensive against the joint jihadi forces in southern Aleppo. Recently, pro-government forces have recaptured the strategic 1070 Apartment Project and several areas near Tel Muhba. The Syrian ...

Tthe US military has begun conducting air raids against ISIS targets at the Libyan city of Sirte Sirte is a major ISIS stronghold in the African country.  The intervention was made by the request of the so-called “Libya’s unity government.” ...

This is the full text of the panel at the Aspen Security Conference 2016 in which the Director Clapper admitted that the US Intel community is at war with Russia: MR. SCIUTTO: So, let’s turn that around, if Putin sees ...

Of all the traditional Yoruba festivals, Egungun (I.e. Masquerade) festival was undoubtedly my favorite. As a kid, I would follow the Egungun ensembles from their respective compounds to the King’s palace. My favorite Egungun, by far, was Andu (image not ...

Today, Pope Francis affirmed that Islam was not a violent religion, saying only a minority of its faithful were fundamentalists. The Pope, who spoke on the plane while flying back from Poland to Rome, said that it was not right ...