Events
First Year Remembrance: Family Plans Classy Ceremony For Late Oba Okunade Sijuwade
The 50th Ooni of Ife, Late Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II”s first year rememberance has been fixed to hold this week. The two-day event will kick off tomorrow thursday, 28 July, 2016, with a Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Ayegbaju, Ile-Ife. This will then be followed by a grand reception at the Castle of Mercy, Ede Road, Ile-Ife.
The following day, Friday. 29 July, a Colloquium, titled, “The Life and Times of Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II, The 50th Ooni of Ife, will be hosted by The Institute of Cultural Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, at Oduduwa Hall, OAU. Another reception will follow at Motel Royal, KM 4, Ede Road, Ile-Ife.
It will be recalled that Oba Sijuwade joined his ancestors, last year on the evening of that fateful Tuesday, July 28, 2015, at around 7pm. He was aged 85.
The Oba passed on at Saint Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, United Kingdom (U.K), where he was being treated, after he was flown out of the country.
