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Modernity Clashes with Tradition: Ife Chiefs Insist Ooni is ‘Alive’ | This Day
Modernity characterised by the social media and citizen journalism clashed with Nigerian tradition, when the Royal Traditional Council of Ile-Ife categorically denied news reports of the death of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade Olubuse II, adding that the paramount Yoruba traditional ruler was “alive and well”, and preparing for his son’s wedding this weekend.
Despite the denial, disbelieving residents of Ife and its environs thronged the Oba’s palace, which was shut to the public, to sympathise with the traditional council and his family, even as his first son, Prince Adetokunbo (Tokunbo) Sijuwade, arrived London onboard a British Airways flight yesterday morning. Tokunbo had departed Lagos Tuesday night the minute he got word of his father’s “condition”.
EFCC quizzes Saraki’s wife for five hours | The Nation
FOR the second time in a week, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday quizzed the Senate President’s wife, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Saraki.
She was grilled for another five and half hours, making her appearance before EFCC’s crack investigators a cumulative record of 11 hours.
Buhari appointments has shown his hatred for Igbo – Ohaneze | Vanguard
THE pan Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo, said yesterday that it was not surprised at the way the appointments of President Muhammadu Buhari were going, insisting that it had shown the president’s deep rooted hatred for the Igbo nation.
Anambra State president of Ohaneze, Dr. Chris Eluemuno, in an interview at the state –owned Anambra Broadcasting Service Television in Awka, said the situation would still have been the same even if the entire Igbo voted for him.
Okagbare, George, others hit Warri for All Africa Games trials| Guardian
Africa and Commonwealth Games queen of the track, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor and fellow US-based 400m star, Regina George, have arrived in Warri, Delta State, for the All Nigeria Open Athletics Championship, which begins today.
The two-day championship will serve as qualifier for track and field athletes hoping to represent the country at the IAAF World Championship in Beijing, China and the All Africa Games holding in Congo Brazzaville next month.
Cecil the lion: US dentist Walter Palmer apologises to patients | BBC
A US dentist who killed a lion in Zimbabwe has apologised to his patients in Minnesota for the disruption caused by the anger directed at him.
Walter Palmer’s dental practice in Minneapolis has been closed since he was named as the tourist who shot Cecil, Zimbabwe’s most famous lion.