Oba has no gender. Women traditional rulers are being pushed to the background. Why? We need all the leaders we can hold and more. This Oba of Akure is well educated, a wife and mother.
“The reality is that Kabiesi, the Ooni of Ife is above all, Ile Ife is the cradle of humanity. We know what we know; we know what we accept and believe and that remains the fact…I don’t want you (Ooni) to spend any time or energy at all responding to counter or alternative theories. It is not necessary. The influence of the Ooni and Ile Ife as the cradle of mankind transcended this region. Ife monarch was recognized and referred ...