The Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland, His Royal Majesty, Rashidi Ladoja is to chair the forthcoming 2025 World Egungun festival. The Oyo State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Wasiu Olatunbosun, stated this during a courtesy visit to him at his residence in Ibadan, according to a statement on Sunday by the Commissioner for Information, Prince Dotun Oyelade. Olatunbosun said that the …

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, on Sunday, directed the suspension of the ongoing Egungun festival over reported cases of violence, arson and looting of shops in the city. In a statement on Sunday by his Personal Assistant on Media, Mr. Oladele Ogunsola, the monarch expressed concern that some hoodlums were taking advantage of the Egungun festival to perpetrate …