The Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Edo, and Delta States, Alhaji Dawud Makanjuola Akinola, alongside the Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Professor Salihu Abdulrahman, who represented the deputy ...

Abimbola, the president and founder of Ifa Heritage Institute, asserted that “Brazil is Yorubaland”. He said: “I used to go to Brazil every year. When I began to go to Brazil in 1975 ...

Consequently, political Islam and Islamist separatism will begin to define the socio-political landscape of Yorubaland as the Yoruba Muslims increasingly get isolated from their kith and kin of ...

In a communiqué issued by the Office of the Grand Mufti of the League of Imams and Alfas in Yorubaland, the body stated that its decision was based on precise astronomical calculations and ...

Some also did for spiritual solutions. That was the Yorubaland I grew up in. Your religious belief was private and you were not judged by it. Only by the content of your character. The Yoruba ...

But, in the South-West region or the Yorubaland, the drinking of alcohol is permitted in public spaces. The Sharia laws mean that the Hisbah Corps would be introduced to ensure strict compliance ...

Across Yorubaland, there are Obas who reign over kingdoms and Baales who hold lordships over smaller territories, often under the authority of an Oba. It is customary for these Obas and Baales to ...

The Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, on Friday described the passing of foremost Afenifere leader and staunch Awoist, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, as a monumental loss. He likened the late ...

The minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has donated a modern central mosque built in memory of his late ...

“Obalufon could be said to be an architect of modern Ile-Ife and Yorubaland. These assertions could be backed up by the gaps filled by the Obalufon dynasty in Ile-Ife and Yorubaland. “In ...

As a matter of fact, Islam reached Yorubaland in places like Iwo from the ancient empire of Mali as early as the 16th century, making the region one of the earliest sites of Islam in sub-Saharan ...