Top 74 Traditional Rulers in Osun State, Nigeria

The Chiefs (Wearing of Beaded Crowns) Order.  CAP 25 Laws of Osun State 2001.


1. The Ooni of Ife
2. The Owa Obokun of Ijeshaland
3.The Orangun of Ila
4. Owa-Oye of Imesi Ile
5. Akinla of Erin- Ijesha
6. Owa Omiran of Esa Oke
7. Olotan of Otan Ile
8.Alare of Ilare
9. Ado-Oko of Idoko
10. Ajaoregbe of Ijaregbe
11. Alada of Ada Owode
12. Olomo of Omo
13. Olufewara of Ifewara
14. Olowu of Owu-Epe
15. Oluse of Ise-Ijesha
16. Ataoja of Oshogbo
17. Olufon of Ifon-Osun
18. Elerin of Erin
19. Oloba Ile of Oba Ile
20. Alawo of Awo
21. Alara of Ara
22.Olojo of Ojo
23. Oba Ido of Ido Osun
24. Olukotun of Ikotun.
25. Olokuku of Okuku.
26. Akosin of Ekosin
27. Oloyan of Oyan
28. Onigbaye of Igbaye.
29. Aragbiji of Iragbiji
30. Owa of Igbajo
31. Olojaressi of Iressi
32. Elende of Eko- Ende
33. Olona of Ada
34. Olobagun of Obagun
35. Olororuwo of Ororuwo
36.  Onirun of Oke- Irun
37. Olore of Ore
38. Eburu of Iba
39. Owa of Otan- Ayegbaju.
40. Orangun of Oke- Ila
41. Asaoni of Ora
42. Edigbon of Edemosi
43. Ogiyan of Ejigbo
44. Alashoko of Ishoko (Ejigbo)
45. Adimula of Ife Odan.
46. Olugbon of Igbon
47. Ologuro of Oguro
48. Olowu of Owu (Ejigbo)
49. Alato of Ato.
50. Alaye of Aye.
51. Oluka of Ika
52. Oluwo of Iwo
53. Akire of Ikire
54. Olowu of Orile-Owu
55. The Timi of Ede
56. The Akirun of Ikirun
57. The Ogboni of Obokun.
58. The Elegboro of Ijebu- Jesha
59. The Ajalaye of Ipetu- Ijesha
60. The Apetumodu of Ipetumodu
61.  The Alapomu of Apomu.
62. The Aloko of Iloko
64. The Oloba- Oke of Oba-Oke
65.  The Olu of Ile - Ile Ogbo
66. The Salu of Edunabon
67. The Olumoro of Moro
68. The Eleripa of Eripa.
69. The Olowu of Kuta
70. The Olura of Ira
71. The Olowu of Ilemowu
72. The Olupo of Oluponna
73. The Ogboni of Ipole
74. Oonifin of Ikonifin
75. The Akesin of Ora
76. The Alayegun of Ayegun

By: NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE On Sunday, February 07, 2016

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Rodney King dies at 47

Rodney King dies at 47; victim of brutal beating became reluctant symbol of race relations

He is found dead in his swimming pool in Rialto. The tape of his 1991 beating and the upheaval that followed in 1992 opened the door to widespread police reform. But he struggled with the expectations placed upon him.


RODNEY KING

Rodney King meets the media on May 1, 1992, during the L.A. riots, his first public appearance. He asked "Can we all get along?" (Los Angeles Times)


Rodney King never set out to be a James Meredith or Rosa Parks.

He was a drunk, unemployed construction worker on parole when he careened into the city's consciousness in a white Hyundai early one Sunday morning in 1991.

While he was enduring the videotaped blows that would reverberate around the world, he wanted to escape to a nearby park where his father used to take him. He simply wanted to survive.

 Rodney King | 1965- 2012

He did survive, but the brutal beating transformed the troubled man into an icon of the civil rights movement. His very name became a symbol of police abuse and racial tensions, of one of the worst urban riots in American history.

More tangibly, the tape of his beating and the upheaval that followed in 1992 brought about the resignation of the long-reigning Los Angeles police chief, Daryl Gates, and opened the door to widespread police reform in the city and beyond.

But King struggled with the expectations freighted upon him, with addictions, legal problems and financial woes, with the name that transcended the man himself and the ragged reality he lived.

 Rodney King and the L.A. riots

Early Sunday morning, at age 47, King was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool in Rialto. Authorities say there was no evidence of foul play and are investigating his death as an accidental drowning.

King's fiancee, Cynthia Kelley, discovered him around 5 in the morning, authorities said. She told investigators that she had been talking to him intermittently through a sliding glass door. At some point she heard a splash, and ran out to find King submerged at the deep end.

Kelley said she could not swim well, so she called 911. When police pulled King out of the water, King showed no signs of life.

From the beginning, King had faltered in his role as a symbol and was tormented by his failings. His stuttering plea for everyone to "get along" during the riots was praised for its earnest intent, yet ridiculed as feckless and naive in relation to such searing, deep-seated anger.

"I never went to school to be 'Rodney King,'" he told The Times two months ago on the 20th anniversary of the riots.

He didn't even use that name much; his family called him by his middle name, Glen.

But whatever the transgressions of his life, he caused, however inadvertently, profound change.

L.A. riots, 20 years later

"Rodney King has a unique spot in both the history of Los Angeles and the LAPD," Police Chief Charlie Beck said in a statement. "What happened on that cool March night over two decades ago forever changed me and the organization I love. His legacy should not be the struggles and troubles of his personal life but the immensely positive change his existence wrought on this city and its Police Department."

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said King's life exposed the nation to racial profiling and police brutality.

"We thank God for the use of Rodney King's life to lift us to a higher degree of consciousness. Let the burden upon the living be to continue the struggle so that the days of racial injustice will end. Let us answer Rodney's pressing question: Yes, we all can get along."

Rodney King was haunted by memories, daunted by pain

Steve Lopez: Rodney King was tragic figure, unlikely symbol.
Source: Los Angelles

By: NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE On Monday, June 18, 2012

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