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"Three issues obviously agitated their minds as they began what turned out to be a 12-week stay in the hospital. Would she survive? If she did, would she be able to walk again? And was she going to be well early enough not to miss her examinations and if she did take them would she be able to do well? But by the grace God, she not only survived, her legs were fully restored and has been able to walk normally again. The recovery of her ability to walk was however gradual. When she left the hospital, she did in a wheel chair for some months, graduated to crutches, and then started to manage on her own until she became fully restored. On the academic front, she eventually took her papers and graduated with an excellent result and at the time of this interview was studying for her master’s degree in a South African university." In the midst of all of that, a transformation was going on in the heart of this young man. In penitence, he began to ask God the way forward for him. And the Lord spoke. As he remembers it, the Lord told him: “now are you done with running away from me; see what running away has gotten you into”. This got him thinking and questions began to pop up in his mind. Questions that he would have loved God to answer. But one day as he rode in

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(article written in 2011 by ngrguardiannews.com)

IT was the day of historical facts. It was an evening of reminiscences. It turned out to be another occasion for flashbacks. And the spot was the palace of His Imperial Majesty, Ooni of Ile-Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade Olubuse II, the Aroole Oduduwa, progenitor of the Yoruba race.

Prof. Siyan Oyeweso, Provost, School of Humanities and Culture, Osun State University, Ikire campus and Chairman of 4th World Conference of Mayors went down historical lane. Oyeweso
narrated how the great grandfathers of Oba Olubuse II and the institution of the Ooni was revered and feared as the spiritual head of Yoruba nation.

The story went thus; the Ooni was asked to come to Lagos in 1903 by the British Colonial government to testify in a case between the Akarigbo of  Remo and Elepe. In those days, no one could look in the face of the Ooni. All Yoruba kings under his authority and who domiciled along the route the Ooni was to pass to Lagos moved out of their bases and they did not sleep until the Ooni returned to Ile-Ife.

The Ooni was feared as a spiritual head. Yoruba Obas had reasoned that what the colonial government demanded from the Ooni was an abomination. For him to leave his palace at Ife and journey to Lagos was unfathomable. A sacr