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The Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission ( FCSC), Prof. Tunji Olaopa, has described the coronation of the 46th Aláàfin Ọ̀yọ́, Ọba Abímbọlá Akeem Ọ̀wọ́adé, as a giant leap in Yoruba renaissance.
According to Prof. Olaopa, the coronation of a new Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́ is always an event that possesses social, political and cultural symbolism and significance. “This is why I deeply congratulate His Imperial Majesty, Ọba Abímbọlá Akeem Ọ̀wọ́adé, on the ascension of the throne of his fathers. This is an event whose significance transcends Yorùbáland and reverberates into the Yorùbá diaspora and the entire world where Yorùbá sociocultural and political influence is felt.”
This is contained in a congratulatory message Olaopa issued to celebrate the new monarch whose coronation takes place on Saturday April 5, 2025 .
Aláàfin Ọ̀yọ́, Ọba Abímbọlá Akeem Ọ̀wọ́adé.
To Olaopa, the new Aláàfin is “wearing big shoes not just as the successor of the charismatic and highly influential leadership of past rulers, from Aláàfin Atìbà Atọ́batẹ́lẹ̀ to the unforgettable Aláàfin Lamidi Adéyẹmí—the traditional geniuses whose deep sense of history enabled them to curate the cultural relevance of the ancients and their traditional wisdom and institutions. He is also the inheritor of the great ancient tradition and heroic achievements of the leadership accomplishments from Ọ̀rànmíyàn to Ṣàngó, those whose foresights and selfless humanism laid the foundation of the formidable Ọ̀yọ́ Empire, and a cultural philosophy that gave the idea of the ọmọlúwàbì to the world.”
For Olaopa, therefore, this ascension is therefore not a sinecure as he is confronted “with a modernizing imperative that serves as the core of the urgency of facilitating a Yorùbá renaissance at home and abroad. This renaissance must be founded on the rich tapestries of Yorùbá culture and civilization—that the Yorùbá built cities and founded dynasties; they created cultural dynamics and oversaw resilient political institutions; they conquered lands and incubate an entrepreneurial spirit that kept them on the critical frontiers of multidimensional achievements that have weathered the erosion of time. All this makes the Aláàfin a singular figure—a traditional agent of modernization that stands at the crossroads of managing the orthodoxy of tradition while launching the Yorùbá on the path of renewed modern vigor. This is even all the more so as traditional institutions in Nigeria places the traditional ruler within the context of democratic rejuvenation and consolidation. This is because it is at the level of the traditional institutional framework that Nigeria’s local governance dynamics become clarified and revitalized.
“The Aláàfin therefore becomes a symbolic pointer to the possibility of local governance that serves also as a modernizing influence on grassroots development. Yorùbá renaissance must therefore start at the level at which the Aláàfin constitutes the rallying point for southwest socioeconomic development. But this role as the vanguard of local governance means the Aláàfin has to first stimulate a climate of peaceful coexistence that constitutes the most significant element for socioeconomic development, starting from Afijio communities to the Òkè-Ògùn axis and rolling outward to the entire southwest as a corridor of development that builds on a climate of peace to instigate an industrializing progress that will eclipse past developmental efforts.”
For the new monarch to realise these, according to Olaopa, he must be able to “stand above the recurring adversarial relationship that seems to define the relationship between the Aláàfin and the Ọọ̀ni of Ifẹ̀. This is one historical moment when the Aláàfin needs to be meticulous and deliberate in deploying his status, as the symbol of cultural unity, to articulate a relational framework that will ensure that all cultural and political resources are harnessed towards the task of making Yorùbáland a source of exemplary leadership that undermines the depth of irrelevance to which traditional rulers and traditional institutions have been reduced in Nigeria’s contemporary sociocultural and political reckoning.
” The ascension of the monarch will bring a cosmopolitan touch to modernize tradition for the emancipation of Oyo people.I see the coronation of His Imperial Majesty, Kábíyèsí Ọba Abímbọlá Akeem Ọ̀wọ́adé as the signal to a new beginning not just for the Ọ̀yọ́, Òkè-Ògùn and the southwest, but essentially for the injection of a youthful dose of creative and cultural innovation into Nigeria’s democratic experiment. May the reign of His Imperial Majesty, Aláyélúwà, Kábíyèsí Ọ̀wọ́adé be long and peaceful and fruitful—Àṣẹ!.”

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By Toyin Falola
(I) – Aríkúyẹrí
On a cold morning, a tender heart
watched Jericho fall again
with scars that wouldn’t fade,
reminding him of the memory of loss
When sorrow dwells in the body of a man,
life becomes a dice, but after a decade of plight,
a man learns how to find answers
to his miseries in the darkest nights
Prof. Serges Kamga
(II) – Alààyè
Your optimism showed us the path of healing,
and despite the horrors of the past,
you have become a custodian of memory
teaching us how to ease the weight of pain
Though your eyes remember the agony of the past,
Your heart is filled with love, a beacon in the night
You are the hope,
You are the tomorrow,
You are the hope of our tomorrow.
(III) – Ọpé
Your vision and scholarship illuminate the earth
You inspire growth and preach excellence
Your dedication and passion have inspired all and sundry
I regard and appreciate you
From the innermost corners of my heart
You who have printed your footprint
on the sacred pages of our history
To Professor Kamga, the trailblazer
I will join the remaining of the earth
When they sing of your legacies
I will lead an assembly of thankful individuals
To sing of your praise.

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Professor Toyin Falola, a recipient of the honorary Doctor of Law, University of Calgary, will deliver the Keynote Address at the 2025 Recognition of Achievement Ceremony Award, Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, South Africa, on Thursday, April 10. The event is billed for 6.00 PM to 8.30 PM at Albert Wessels Auditorium, Bloemfontein Campus.
As announced by Professor Serges Kamga, the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Professor Falola’s lecture is entitled “The Rule of Law in Contemporary Africa: Foreign Impacts, Local Degenerations and Framework for Change.”
When contacted by various journalists about the lecture, Professor Falola said that the rule of law is the bulwark of any democracy. He regards it as a concept that has been institutionalized into every democratic system of government, and its precepts serve to fasten and strengthen the principles of democracy in any system.
He emphasized that “whereas there is a predominant focus on the rule of law and its application in municipal law, its existence, application, and challenges as the bedrock of international law is less scrutinized.”
Falola’s lecture argues that the increasing undermining of the rule of law in international politics has affected its contemporaneous adherence in Africa. The attitude of the forerunners of international institutions in observing international laws they so fought to develop is a deciding factor in the way other countries respond to these rules.
When the rules of international law are contravened and depleted by foreign actions or foreign leaders in their locale, the rule of law has been attacked. To Falola, “the response and reaction of the forerunners of these international laws, which is often a spear of recalcitrance, has significant damning effects on how Africa interfaces with the rule of law.”
The preeminent don insists that his lecture does not suggest that Africa takes a back seat in the international scene, nor does it endorse wholesale the template put forward by the Western governments and bodies. Instead, the argument is that when international proponents break these international norms, conventions, and agreements, Africa suffers more from such actions.
This outstanding lecture scrutinizes, as a template, the legality of the executive orders of President Donald Trump and their disregard for the rule of law, the trampling on the interests of other countries, and the corollary contemporary African disregard for and violations of the rule of law which is being systematically tested and routinized in international relations.
To strengthen the institution of the rule of law and its framework, which hinders the buffeting of democracy, Falola offers recommendations for national and continental efforts towards legal and institutional independence.

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Huge relief has come for suspended Kogi lawmaker, Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the the petition to recall her failed to meet requirements.
Some stakeholders of Akpoti-Uduaghan’s constituency had last month initiated the recall process of the lawmaker over her six months suspension by the Senate and the ongoing sexual harassment scandal involving her and the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
The constituents, under the aegis of Concerned Kogi Youths and Women, submitted the petition which was initially rejected by the Commission over absence of voters contact address.
They would resubmit the petition with INEC acknowledging and forwarding it for further processing.
The electoral body, in a post on its official X handle on Thursday, declared that the petition failed to meet the requirements of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended).
“The petition for the recall of the Senator representing the Kogi Central Senatorial District has not met the requirement of Section 69(a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).” The post read.

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