Police arrest Ilorin Alfa who threatened, forcefully ejected Isese devotee from her shop

Controversial Islamic cleric, declared wanted by the Kwara State Police command for allegedly threatening some traditionalists in Ilorin, Alfa Salah Ayodeji, has been arrested and paraded by the police. When paraded by the police in Ilorin on Wednesday evening, the man pleaded for forgiveness, saying that he did not know that his action was dangerous […]

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Isese: Reliving Yoruba History, By Akin Osuntokun

The power politics that defines Ilorin ensued in the 1820s with the defeat of Are Ona kakanfo Afonja, in the Alimi (the Fulani spiritual consultant to Afonja) insurrection against the political status-quo (personified by the former).The insurrection rapidly resolved in the jihadist incorporation of Ilorin into the Sokoto Caliphate. More than any historical figure, Afonja […]

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