Olubadan

After a nearly 15-year hiatus, Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde reinaugurated the Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs. Rather than signalling a calm restoration of tradition, the event reopened old wounds, reignited long-standing rivalries…

Following the dispute over the rotational chairmanship of the Oyo State Council of Obas between the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, and the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly…

The Oyo State House of Assembly has yielded to pressure after passing the amendment to the Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs Law, at its third reading, making the chairmanship rotational among the Alaafin of Oyo, the Olubadan,…

A respected Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Oyo State and prominent mogaji of Ibadanland, Alhaji Abass Oloko, has called for the chairmanship of the Oyo Council of Obas and Chiefs to be made rotational. In a recent statement,…

Traditional leaders in Ibadanland — including the Mogajis, the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), Obas, Baales, and the Ibadan Compound Peace Initiative (ICPI) — have strongly condemned the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed…

Intense lobbying is underway to persuade former Oyo State Governor and Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland, High Chief Rashidi Ladoja, to accept the beaded crown, as dictated for his status in the revised Olubadan Chieftaincy…

Oyo State government has absolved itself from the rumoured plan to stop or scuttle the ambition of anyone from becoming the next Olubadan. In a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation,…

Enthronement of Oba Owolabi Olakulehin as the 43rd Olubadan of Ibadanland has taken another twist as the Otun Olubadan, High Chief Rasidi Ladoja, and other kingmakers have differed on the signing of terms of settlement to…

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has maintained that there are no issues in the Olubadan traditional system, saying that once the nomination is officially communicated to him by the Olubadan-in-Council, he would take the necessary…