{"id":70994,"date":"2025-07-19T11:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70994"},"modified":"2025-07-19T11:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T11:31:13","slug":"ifa-council-to-sues-ogun-govt-awujales-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/19\/ifa-council-to-sues-ogun-govt-awujales-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Ifa Council to Sues Ogun Govt, Awujale\u2019s Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The International Council for Ifa Religion (ICIR), has threatened to sue the Ogun State Government and the family of the late Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, over alleged violations of traditional burial rites.<\/p>\n<p>At a press briefing held Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Abeokuta, the council accused both parties of sidelining Yoruba traditions during the monarch\u2019s funeral, claiming the burial ignored crucial Ifa consultations and spiritual protocols.<\/p>\n<p>The ICIR, which describes itself as custodian of Yoruba traditional practices, criticized the burial for adopting modern Christian elements while neglecting time-honoured customs expected for a king of Awujale\u2019s stature.<\/p>\n<p>High Chief Adeyemi Elebuibon, speaking on behalf of the council, said a lawsuit would be filed in an Ogun State court.<\/p>\n<p>He added that traditional rulers across Yorubaland would be petitioned to resist what he called the &#8220;erasure of ancestral customs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat &nbsp; The International Council for Ifa Religion (ICIR), has threatened to sue the Ogun State Government and the family of the late Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, over alleged violations of traditional burial rites. At a press briefing held Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Abeokuta, the council accused both parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70996,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70994\/revisions\/70996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}