Ife Land has four local government. the local govt are Ife central, Ife east, Ife north and Ife south. and not two.

very true

todayboy:
Afonjas should give this oba job na

The man is just making the Oni title worthless

Osun state is gradually becoming Sudan this obA can't stay on his throne and assist the confused governor aregbe

since your village head cannot go out of his domain, you want to talk down a good move from respected king, who goes international and can be welcomed by a president. You need to check yourself

I am proud of my king, you have it all, youthfulness, strength, class and courage. God is on your side. Oonirisa.

government should do something about it before the hoodlums turn it to a place to rubb motorist

Only the big fools will not know that every good thing in Nigeria of rescent is attached to this great king. He is showing us the true change we need to see. kudos to you baba. more of good things to come out of naija

It is a welcome development, promotion of our culture.

Bad belle you will never appreciate people trying to give back to society in their own way. Tell ur oba to even build nursery sch in ur village.

pho27:
Na wa for some guys oooo, so cos she's pretty she should just stay in doors and not go out to do reasonable things again cos men will look at her BTW.....ife people, is a new resort d only problem that u have right now? just asking

Naija people with their mouth. If a friend can say this, a rational thinking man shd know that it is all jealousy. Let the woman be, after all it is ooni choice. Must he sought people opinion on who to marry. Bad belle people

since you are barrister. I challenge to establish your claim of corruption with evidences rather than making spurious and unfounded allegation against a person. it is fallacious to belief everybody is corrupt in Nigeria. this man is a business man and not a politician for God sake. make noise about political leaders who are sharing our Commonwealth everyday and not a hardworking young man who has never occupy any political or public office. I hate people who spread lies, you may be in his position someday.

Jokerman:
lol... see thieves... weda u guys like it or not. . One day the Ooni will b called to answer for his crimes against the Nigerian people

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I blame your parents for poor upbringing. you dare call a king of a kingdom thieve. u must have gone mad for such to proceed from your mouth. stop demonstrating your insanity in public. Buffoon

Jokerman:

Doesn't Saraki represent an institution? ? Bro, d institution remains while d bearer pays for his crime to d Nigerian pple....

I am very sorry for this country. have baked graduate who cannot read and comprehend. where is it stated in the story that the money is Nigeria money. transaction between two companies and you guys are taking it personal. majority are passing judgment on what you know nothing about. I am sorry for you if you always take everything you read on internet hook line and sinker. I blame corruption on waec and ume for this

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A criminal?? Your deity??
Lmao I have no regards to a criminal.
The ooni must go to kirikiri and pay for his crime. Sorry. Since you dont have it you can never know the value. Must you show your frustration publicly, after all ooni is not resposible for that poverty that have blocked your brain to reason well again. The ooni must go to kirikiri

Opportunity for haters to vomit. You want to kill yourself on this spurious allegation which can only emanated from the enemy of progress. gods have spoken and cannot be changed. Ooni of ife has come to rule. O ti se se. I pity people who use thr tongue anyhow

it is a welcome development

you cannot expect to be doing the same thing and expect different result. gone are the days when king will sit in their palace and expect development. ooni is not just ife king he must connect well for Yoruba interest. my king one day you shall be remembered as a great king like your predecessor. do it in your own way, our ancestor is with you.

this is a king for the new age, Ife got it right this time. may God give the king wisdom and long life. congratulations Sir

It is a shame that benin people can deny their relationship with yoruba. I am very sure their ancestor will not be happy with this. It is undisputable fact that they have their root in yoruba land. And ooni is father of all

this is not from ooni. ooni is an institution and cannot be using Twitter to communicate issue like this. the Twitt is fake. I beg delete this post asap. rubbish

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africanusvu:
Sory if am wrong.though i am ibo.but i do knw OONI is a highly reverd king.u hardly see him,hear him speak.nor take visitors.but these one seems to be diferent.he is making these post look comon.we may soon av another mbaka and the catholic church

bros you are wrong. the formal ooni do receive visitors everyday and this is normal given the importance of his post. the new ooni received this attention and coverage because of high level of tech now and hustling of bloggers to make money for themselves. this as not reduce the image of ooni but make it more popular. it is the era of new age bro

good observation

this is what traditional ruler in the modern time should be doing. I hope other traditional rulers in Yoruba land we learn from this.more power to your elbow the true Oduduwa of our time . Ooni Adeyeye Aroole Oduduwa. ife a GBE ooo.

lawani:


Oluwo (re do do), the last o is like the o in odd, meaning bond woman and not Oluwo (re mi re) meaning chief priest. They are not thesame word. Omo Oluwo ni came to become Owoni or Ooni. The Yoruba do shorten words in that manner. There are many examples. Olodumare is said to mean something like Olodu ti o ni osumare and etc etc.

The Ogun who ruled after Oduduwa was an incarnate and not the Ogun Osinmole who landed on Earth at the dawn of existence. Thousands of years Before Oduduwa, Ogun incarnates had built great empires Ogun Onire, Ogun Ajero, Ogun Alara and etc. The post Oduduwa Ogun was acknowledged as an incarnate, Ewuare of Benin was also an incarnate, a King of Badagry, an Akire and etc.

Ife land is large but I was referring to the aboriginal Ifes when I said Ifes are not much in population. Those are the real Ifes, most others are Oyo but all are nominally Ife and all of us are Ife people by descent but not by sub national identity. The Ooni was not an emperor or political head of the Yoruba by any means. No one took orders from the Ooni. It may have been so in the first century AD before Ife declined and before other successor states rose though but it was not so since the exit of Oduduwa or since one or two monarchs after him. Oyo, Ijesha, Benin, Igbomina, Owo and etc are successor states to Ife like Ibadan is successor to Oyo. If the British had not arrived, the decline of Ife would have been complete and the tradition of recognizing the leading state as the present Ife may have been abandoned altogether. Any of Oyo and Benin could also have been renamed the new Ife. Benin already took the art.

The political hq of the Yoruba was at Ife in the past during the segi days but it was not effectively there when the British arrived, however it was nominally there as people still remember tradition. The Oyo would not have referred to Ife to clarify any politics but to the Alaafin, neither would the Ijesa, Igbomina and etc who all had monarchs with more clout and followers than the Ooni.

The original Owu that was a contemporary of old Oyo was destroyed and scattered. They are in 32 communities scattered all over Yoruba land. Without such interference, Owu would have a city as big as Ibadan.

bro you are just begging the questions. some of the questions that was asked as not been answered. I don't need to repeat those question for you as you deliberately avoid them. I will take it to be your lack of deeper knowledge on the subject matter. your explanation of transition of oluwo to ooni is ridiculous, incorrect and misplaced of words. that transition as you explained was a creation of armchairs historian. ooni simply the owner of smth. eni ti o ni unkan. stop creating confusion.

lawani:

That is the rendition of the ruling houses in Ife and their underlings. They say Ooni means Oonile which means owner of the land but other Yoruba say No, it means otherwise, it means Omo Oluwo ni. I think that is also the account in Rev Samuel Johnson's book. Oduduwa never used that title. Oduduwa is not a property of Ife to the exclusion of others.

what did oduduwa used?