10 facts you didn’t know about the late Ooni of Ife

10. The Ooni has also been engaged in supremacy battle with the Alafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, over whose traditional stool is higher in Yoruba land. Both leader however, closed ranks long ago for the sake of the region.

The late Ooni of Ife Oba died on July 28th, 2015, after a brief illness at the ripe age of 85 years in a London hospital.

-marapolsa.