SUPREMACY OF THE OONI OF IFE What is all this fuss about the hierarchy in the land of Oduduwa, if I may ask? I read of two abortive attempts to settle the confusion. Now, the dissident group will be ostracized by other sons of Odu’a and their sympathizers from Wadai....
BIOGRAPHY OF CHIEF LERE PAIMO (MFR); A RARE BREED CALLED EDA ONILE OLA WRITTEN BY JOHNSON ADE OKUNADE Chief Lere Paimo MFR (Eda Onile Ola) is one of the most modern dramatists, theatre arts performer, filmmaker, dancer, and singer from Ogbomoso who has distinguished...
PROFESSOR (CHIEF) HON. NATHANIEL DUROJAYE (N.D) OYERINDE (OBE): THE FIRST NIGERIAN PROFESSOR Introduction The life and times of our beloved who was the first Ògbómòsó man to be well educated and rose to become the first professor in Nigeria, perhaps also among the...
THE UNTOLD UNIQUENESS OF YORÙBÁ’S INDIGENOUS ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES (OTÍ) WRITTEN BY JOHNSON ADE OKUNADE As a developing country, Nigeria is at the crossroads of indigenous and foreign cultures. A culture that has been in existence for centuries is being replaced with a...
Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola,GCFR (24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998) was a Nigerian Yoruba businessman, publisher, politician and aristocrat of the Yoruba Egba clan, he was the Aare Ona Kankafo of the Yoruba land. MKO Abiola ran for the presidency in 1993, for...