Shockwaves are reverberating across Yorùbáland and the global Yorùbá diaspora following the sudden death of the Baba Ọba (King’s Father) of the famed Oyotunji African Village in South Carolina, USA. The late Baba Ọba, Lukman Arohunfale, a revered socialite and traditionalist, passed away under circumstances already sparking fierce controversy. His death comes just days after he publicly accused the newly installed Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty Oba Akeem Adéyẹmọ Owoade, of allegedly ordering his courtiers to beat him mercilessly during a recent courtesy visit to the Oyo palace in Nigeria. In a widely circulated voice recording, the deceased recounted how what was meant to be a simple homage turned violent. Although the Baba Ọba had reportedly battled ill health in the past year, growing insinuations suggest that the alleged physical assault may have aggravated his condition, ultimately leading to his untimely death. The palace in Oyo recently denied that s...
Below is a tragic story shared by Jennifer Oyatabu about her friend who was found half naked and dead on a roadside in Enugu after going to meet a stranger she met on the road. She had been missing for almost two days before her corpse was discovered. Quite a terrible story.
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“She answerd a call on sunday night. We overhead her saying dat som1 called her to come dst dey will use her face for calender.. Dat dey will pay her N250k. She never wanted to go. After some while a gal called her bk for dsame stuff. She was preparing to go, ma sist asked her if she knows d person she said dat is some1 she met on d rd.
She told her not to go dat is not geniue. She insisted and left. She called ma sist bk around 7pm and told her dst she csnt come bk again dat she will come bk the next day.. On dat monday everybody was trying her number no way till on sunday. I was telln everybody dat our friend is missing.
On tuesday one guy ran to me and said he overhead me wen was saying we r looking for ma friend.. Dat there was a gal dey killed at transecul penus… She demonstrated her… I told him to follow me 2 ma sist houz so dat dey will knw d way she dressed out we reach there ma sist brought out d pic she snapped b4 she left.
D guy started crying and say she is d one. We took off going to one station or d other finally we reanch to trasecul police station and comfirm dat she is d one. She was lying half naked on d rd. With d beating dey gave her. Her face swallowed up. Blood was coming out from her mouth, noise and ear.
Her two eyes was very black. Chai. D pad she used 4 her mensis was beside her. D killers went away with her phone… Put her slipoers beside d flower. We went to d mortuary today and saw our friend lying helplessly dead there.
I cryed out ma eyes. Buh nomata how amount of cry i cried even if o cry out blood she can never come bk again. Death na so u dey. Chai. I never believed untill today.. God pipo r so wicked and hrtless. Omalicha duh rest untill u fight bk those wicked killers of urs.
They took away ur precious life by force. So fight bk. chai we loved u. And we are going to miss u well. Rip ma love untill we path to c nomore. Jee nke oma ezigbo nwanyi.”
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