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•Kingmakers: Giesi house to produce monarch The 16 Ife kingmakers yesterday named Giesi as the only ruling house qualified to present candidate (s) for the vacant Ooni stool. They said the new Ooni would emerge […]

A new Ooni of Ife will emerge within the next 40 days in line with the customs and tradition of the ancient town, the 16 kingmakers of the ancient town said yesterday. The kingmakers, at […]

The wife of The Sun Deputy Managing Director Steve Nwosu,  Toyin, has been kidnapped. An armed gang, numbering about seven, stormed Nwosu’s Ago Palace Way, Okota home, entering the house through a window. They took […]

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, monday declared today as the first day of Zulhijja,1436 AH, while the Eid-el-Kabir will hold on September 24, 2015. This was contained in a statement signed […]

    The Down Syndrome Foundation Nigeria (DSFN) will be holding its annual awareness week programme.  It commences from the 29th of September and runs till October 11th 2015. It comprises a series of activities […]

As the selection process of the Ooni starts, the Lafogido Ruling House has faulted the Chieftaincy Declaration of 1976 by the Justice Ademola Commission, claiming it erred in its conclusion on issues regarding the true […]

The Ogboru Ruling House of Ife has presented to the kingmakers, a United Kingdom-based oil magnate, Prince Adeagbo Adefarakan, as its sole candidate for the Ooni stool. Addressing reporters in Osogbo yesterday, Prince Adefarakan said […]

The process for the selection of new Ooni of Ife may have commenced. It was gathered that the Osun State government was set to formally write the Giesi Ruling House to present candidates for the […]

Donu Kogbara, Vanguard columnist, looked calm as she spoke to journalists who rushed to her residence as news of her release by kidnappers filtered into Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, yesterday morning. The state Police Commissioner, Mr […]

How does one begin to slash through this thickening tissue of lies? Prince Oyinlola must be put to the strictest proof to substantiate several outrageous claims in his recent press statement. Failing to do so […]

As the people of Ife await the choice of a new Ooni of Ife, following the demise Oba Okunade Sijuwade, a contender to the throne, Omooba Adetunji Babatunde Aderin II, has said he should become […]

THE news broke like they do every day but would not vanish like others before it. The reported death of the revered Itsekiri monarch, the Ogiame Atuwatse 2, the Olu of Warri, remains yet in […]

Former Osun State Governor Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has promised to explore opportunities for the resolution of the leadership tussle between him and the Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, over the chairmanship of the Board of Trustees […]

A prince of Ile-Ife, who is aspiring to emerge as the next Ooni, Adetayo Oladele, has said the new monarch must be a man who is desirous of bringing development to the town. He said […]

THE kidnapping of underage children is becoming the new gold mine for some people, who are gradually losing their humanity and have totally lost compassion for parents and their offspring. So disastrous is the trend […]

This is 2015. This has been emphasised for us to take another look at the number and the year again. How many of us did not think that virtually everything would change after the year […]

Despite his demise recently, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, monday put aside his differences with  the late Ooni of Ife,  Oba Okunade Sijuwade Olubuse II, to eulogise him, saying “Ooni as an institution, […]

Osogbo—As efforts are in top gears to fill the vacant stool of the Ooni of Ife, the Giesi ruling house of Ile-Ife which claimed it is its turn to produce the town’s next monarch has […]

The Olu of Warri, Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse II is dead. Palace sources told SaharaReporters that the traditional ruler of Itsekiri kingdom in Delta state died at a private hospital in Lagos of an […]

Mohammed Faweyinmi, first son of the late legal icon, Chief Gani Faweyinmi, opens up on the pains of accessing the courtrooms in this interview with DAYO OKETOLA How would you describe your experience accessing the […]