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We knew he’ll be king, says dad Coronation to hold within 21 days IFE kingmakers yesterday defended their choice of Prince Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi as Ooni, saying they followed due process in picking him. The […]

Igbo traders in Akure, Ondo State capital shut their shops a couple of days ago to protest alleged moves by the Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi to dethrone the Eze Ndigbo of Akure, Sir […]

By the time the dust settled, hundreds of homes were gone, replaced by a tangle of broken planks and crushed metal, and thousands of homeless residents. And the bulldozers responsible for this destruction in a […]

The Osun State Government has unveiled a new Ooni of Ife. He is Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, a 40-year old real estate magnate and prince from the Giesi Ruling House in the town. He becomes the […]

  The Osun State Government has unveiled a new Ooni of Ife. He is Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, a 40-year old real estate magnate and prince from the Giesi Ruling House in the town.

There is this adage in Igboland which says that when elders are not at home Children may wear snakes as necklaces. Another one says only a foolish elder will be at home when a she […]

“I just want to do my part and leave…Not for what they’re going to remember you for, but for what you believe in as a man.”-Fela He was born in 1938 in Abeokuta to a […]

OSOGBO – There were strong indications yesterday that Osun State government may this week announced the new Ooni of Ife amidst heavy presence of security operatives around the ancient town. Sunday Vanguard gathered that as […]

SHORTLY after attending activities marking the 10th anniversary of his late wife Stella, former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday had a tyre blowout in the vehicle conveying him to the Murtala International Airport in Lagos. Sources close […]

Felabrations, the activities marking the death of the music icon Fela Anikulapo Kuti were on till last weekend. Although he has been gone for almost two decades now, yet he lives on in the minds […]

Akure—THE Deji of Akureland in Ondo State, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi yesterday listed conditions for truce with the estranged Eze Ndigbo of Akure, Gregory Iloehike. One of the condition was that the Igbo leader is forbidden […]

Without any shred of doubt, no one thought that the Friday, July 24, 2015, departure of Oba Okunade Sijuade, Olubuse II, to the UK for medical attention, will, in a five-day time-bracket, trigger a series […]

The directorate of the Committee for Relevant Art, CORA wishes to express our profound appreciation of your onsistent support to our various programmes, mainly designed to facilitate growth of Literacy through Literature and the Arts, […]

The organisers of the Lagos Book and Art Festival have called for entries for reviews of any one of five works of Ken Saro Wiwa’s fiction and drama. The best review of either Sozaboy, A […]

The selection process of the new Ooni of Ife may have been stalled following the intervention of prominent Ife indigenes urging the kingmakers to ensure that a credible candidate is picked to fill the vacant […]

The National Arts Theatre in Lagos would be among 200 iconic monuments, buildings, statues, bridges and other landmarks across the world to be lit up blue on October 24 to mark the founding of the […]

By his intense intervention in the controversy relating to control of the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU), Osogbo, the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, demonstrated cultural progressivism, distinct from but connected with […]

As part of the activities to mark his 80th birthday and 10th anniversary of  his Foundation, billionaire and philanthropist, Kessington Adebukunola Adebutu, will be capped as the Asoju Oba of Lagos by Oba  Rilwanu Osuolala Akiolu […]

THE Olu of Warri designate, Prince Godfrey Ikenwole Abiloye Emiko, yesterday emerged temporarily from seclusion to to lead Itsekiri chiefs in  the Iken rites, the traditional escort of a departed Olu,  to join his ancestors […]