Yorubaland’s foremost Ifa priest, actor and also the Araba of Osogboland, Ifayemi Elebuibon recently turned 70 and gave an interview to Tribune newspaper . He spoke on the origins of his name, the circumstances around his birth , hardships in ...

By Gbenga Olarinoye Osogbo – The judicial panel of inquiry set up by Osun state governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, to unravel the circumstances that led to the communal clash between Hausa and Yoruba communities at Sabo area, Ile-Ife, yesterday concluded ...

Elders of Traditional Religion worshipers under the aegis of the Concerned Committee of Yoruba Traditional Culture and Faith Ambassadors have stood in defence of three Ifa priests accused of impersonating the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, and extorting some ...

Yoruba Culture Yet Survives The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade ???????? Lucumí Vocabulary Is Another Version Of Yoruba Language Spoken By Yoruba Slave Immigrants In North & South America. Here are a few words in Lucumí to get you started: Adié: Hen ...

Osun govt, Assembly declare 3-day mourning By Gbenga Olarinoye, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Dapo Akinrefon & Rotimi Ojomoyela IRKED by the presence of Hon. Idiat Babalola, a commissioner-nominee of Governor Rauf Aregbesola at the burial of Senator Isiaka Adeleke, supporters of the ...

By Gbenga Olarinoye, Dayo Johnson & Charles Kumolu OSOGBO—THERE was tension in Osun State over the decision to carry out an autopsy on the corpse of the first executive governor of the state, Sen Isiaka Adeleke, who died, yesterday, in ...

Report reaching us from a very reliable source claimed  that Aikulola Nathan Lugho is a fraud. See more details bellow. “He forged the letter of his oluwo in Nigeria where he said his oluwo has expelled some of his colleagues ...

Awon omo egbe apapo-Yorùbá-titi eka –oselu, Afenifere ati awọn omo egeb (Oodua Peoples Congress), OPC, ti fariga nipa rogbodiyan ti oun lo ni ilu Ile Ife. Ninu oro kan ti abenugo fun eggbe Afenifere kán so eyi ti un se ...

By Gbenga Olarinoye Osogbo—Not fewer than 10 people were reportedly killed in a clash at the Sabo area of Ile-Ife when the ancient city was yesterday engulfed in a bloody clash between the indigenes of the town and the Hausa ...

Femi Makinde, Osogbo Magistrate Olusola Aluko, who is hearing the case instituted by the Oluwo of Iwo Oke, Osun State, Oba Kadiri Adeoye, against the Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdurasheed Akanbi, has issued a fresh bench warrant for the arrest ...