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VACANT OLU-IWA STOOL: WHO SUCCEEDS BABA-OLOYE?
Uneasy calm trails Amodu Tijani, Kumuyi, Amore, Ajasa Oluwa camps As final burial ceremony for late High Chief Mukaila Kolawole Oluwa holds Monday There had been untold royal permutations from the patriarchal lineages in the Oluwa chieftaincy family, following the...
PRINCE RABIU OLUWA, AYOOLA, OTHERS PAY LAST RESPECT TO LATE OLU-IWA, HIGH CHIEF MUKAILA KOLAWOLE OLUWA
Residents bemused by traditional funeral rites of late Olu-Iwa As Dankaka community served as a final resting place for the late White cap chief in Lagos Fakunle Sheriff Ekundayo reports Wednesday, January 4, 2023 The body of Olu-Iwa of Lagos in Ajeromi-Ifelodun local...
NAFEST 2022: AJEROMI-IFELODUN DAZZLES WITH EGUNGUN ELEMELE, EMAR DANCE AT NATIONAL FESTIVAL IN ONIKAN Team Rivers steal the show at NAFEST with 1,000 colourful delegation Enterprising HOU on Tourism and Culture, Olajumoke Disu, Supervisor on Chieftaincy Affairs,...
TRADITIONAL WRESTLING: HOW DICKSON IDOWU OMORO IGNITED AJEGUNLE WITH OLOTU IN THE 80s’
By Fakunle Sheriff Ekundayo THE BEGINNING It may not necessarily go down well with some people that Coach Dickson Idowu Omoro, popularly known as the ‘Youngster from Ajegunle’ was among the leading lights that ignited Ajegunle with traditional wrestling, known as...
I’MORAN: HOW FAKUNLE CHIEFTAINCY FAMILY FOUNDED AIYETORO TOWN
The Fakunle chieftaincy family is reputed to be one of the early settlers in Ojoraland. The family whose aboriginal source is from Oko-Faaji in Lagos Island migrated to Apapa-Elemu in the early 18th century. The Fakunle family is an extended family that crossed the...
THE ORIGIN OF AJEGUNLE
{AJEROMI-IFELODUN } Ajegunle is a cosmopolitan city in Lagos State. The history of Ajegunle dates back to the 19th century. And it is interesting to know that the word Ajegunle which literally means: ‘THIS IS WHERE MY WEALTH RESIDES’ is a near boundary coinage...