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Ọba Ọjájá II was born Prince Adeyeye Enitan of Giesi ruling house, one of the four royal families of the House of Oranmiyan. [3] His paternal grandfather was Prince Joseph Olagbaju Adewole Ogunwusi, whose grandfather was Ọba Ọ̀ráyẹ̀gbà (also known as Ooni Orarigba or Orasigba) Ọjájá I, who was the 44th Ooni of Ife and ruled from 1878 to 1880.
The Olojo Festival is an ancient festival celebrated annually in Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. [1] It is one of the popular festivals in the Yoruba land , and was once described by Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi as a festival that celebrates the Black race all over the world. [ 2 ]
In the Ifá religion of the Yoruba people, the sacred city is layered inwards, from the city of Ife to the palace of the Ooni, to the Ooni himself. [10] Ile-Ife is said, in the Ifa religion, to be the place where the gods descended to earth, the creator god, Ọbatala, and the first god-king of Ife, Oduduwa. It is said to be the center of the ...
The Ajilesoro (Edun-lde Compound) Royal Dynasty in llara Ile-lfe emerged from Obalufon Ogbogbodirin who succeeded his forebears Osangangan Obamakin (Oranfe) and Ogun; who reigned as the second and third Ooni of Ife over 4,000 years ago after the reign of Oduduwa. [1] The Ooni of Ife is the supreme traditional ruler amongst the Yoruba people. [2]
Oba Sir Titus Martins Adesoji Tadeniawo Aderemi (Atobatele I), [a] alias Adesoji Aderemi [b] KCMG, KBE (15 November 1889 – 3 July 1980), was a Nigerian political figure and Yoruba traditional ruler as the Ooni of Ife (or Ilé-Ifẹ̀, as it is properly known) from 1930 until 1980.
Ooni Ogun was the 3rd Ooni of Ife, a paramount traditional ruler of Ile Ife, the ancestral home of the Yorubas. He succeeded his father Ooni Osangangan Obamakin and was succeeded by Obalufon Ogbogbodirin .
Alayeluwa Oba Okunade Sijuwade CFR (1 January 1930 – 28 July 2015) was the fiftieth traditional ruler or Ooni of Ife from 1980 to his death in 2015, taking the regnal name Olubuse II. [1] He was a traditional ruler of Ile-Ife, Yoruba town in Osun State, Nigeria.
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