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Ooni of
Ife, Alayeluwa Sijuwade, passes away @ 85: His Life & Times revealed!
The Ooni of Ife, Alayeluwa
Oba Okunade Sijuwade, has died at the age of 85.
Alayeluwa Oba Okunade
Sijuwade was born on the 1st of January, 1930 to a great royal family in the
Ogboru house, Ilare, Ile-Ife.
The last Ooni of Ife that
the Ogboru ruling house presented (before the incumbent) reigned in Ife for
many years as Sijuwade Adelekan Olubuse
I. He was the first Ooni to
venture out of his domain. At the invitation of the colonial Governor he
visited Lagos in 1903 to give his ruling on whether the Oba Elepe of Epe was entitled
to wear a crown which was earlier refused by Oba Akarigbo of Remo.
Oba Adelekan was the father
of the late “Omo-Oba“ Adereti Sijuwade, the father of Oba Sijuwade














