Ile-Ife
4 May
To preserve the culture and history of the Yoruba people of Ile-Ife, Nigerian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Dr Maureen Tamuno, has unveiled a book titled, ‘Ile-Ife, Cradle of the World’.
17 Nov 2022
Readers are referred to a short piece I wrote as my own contribution to the prefatory note for a 2021 “Book of Honour” done for me by the Nigerian Left, “Edwin Madunagu at 75: Tributes and Reflections”.
10 Oct 2022
The people of Kabba, at the weekend, trooped out in hundreds as Obaro of Kabba and Chairman, Okun Area Traditional Council, Oba (Dr.) Solomon Dele Owoniyi, buried his father
14 Aug 2022
The Head of Department’s office at the University of Ife was attached to the General Office and the name WOLE SOYINKA, boldly written in capital letters, welcomed both students and visitors.
11 Aug 2022
The old students of St. John’s Grammar School have restored electricity to seven settlements at Oke-Atan community in Ile-Ife, Osun State, as part of activities to mark the 60th anniversary
28 Jun 2022
The prosecution in the murder trial of Dr. Rahmon Adedoyin, the owner of Hilton Honours Hotel, Ile-Ife and six of his workers at Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, yesterday,
22 May 2022
Ifẹ̀ Oòdáyé, Ilẹ̀ òwúrọ̀. Ibi ojúmọ́ rere gbé ń mọ́ wáyé. (Translation) Ifẹ̀ Oòdáyé. The ancient land Where the breaking of the day began Between 1910 and 1912, Leo Viktor Frobenius (1873 –1938), a renowned ethnologist and archaeologist worked on archaeological sites in Nigeria. Ile-ife in Osun State was one of the sites that Frobenius…
11 Apr 2022
The recent protest on OAU campus over the pronouncement of Professor Bamire as the next V.C of the Obafemi Awolowo University by the governing council of the university
27 Mar 2022
The management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, yesterday, asked its students to embark on a two-week mid-semester break.
26 Mar 2022
Ludicrous, bigoted, and immature are vocabularies that are too mild to label the show of indignity displayed by some ill-informed natives of Ile-Ife in their demand for the appointment
18 Mar 2022
A professor of Agricultural Economics from the Faculty of Agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Adebayo Simeon Bamire, was yesterday announced
8 Mar 2022
Mrs. Bolatito Adegoke, a widow to Timothy Adegoke, the late postgraduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, who was allegedly murdered at Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Ile-Ife,