{"id":15371,"date":"2025-07-07T08:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=15371"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:56:13","slug":"olubadan-dies-aged-90-a-year-after-ascending-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/olubadan-dies-aged-90-a-year-after-ascending-throne\/","title":{"rendered":"Olubadan dies aged 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Owolabi Olakulehin, the Olubadan of Ibadan, is dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Olakulehin passed on in the early hours of Monday, two days after his 90th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The monarch was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/photos-sultan-ooni-in-attendance-as-makinde-presents-staff-of-office-to-43rd-olubadan\/\"><strong>presented with the staff of office<\/strong><\/a> as the 43rd Olubadan, by Seyi Makinde, Oyo state governor, on July 12, 2024<\/p>\n<p>His death comes a year after he ascended the throne.<\/p>\n<p>He was born into the Okugbaja family in the Ita Baale area of Ibadan.<\/p>\n<p>He was initially rumoured to have died in March but the Oyo state government dismissed the claims.<\/p>\n<p>Olakulehin succeeded Olalekan Balogun who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/just-in-olubadan-of-ibadan-dies-two-years-after-ascending-throne\/amp\/\"><strong>died<\/strong><\/a> aged 81. Balogun spent two years as Olubadan.<\/p>\n<p>The Olubadan stool is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/matters-arising-who-is-the-next-olubadan-will-ladoja-strike-again\/\"><strong>alternated<\/strong><\/a> between the civil and military lines.<\/p>\n<p>The stool will now return to the civil line as Olakulehin came from the military line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/his-royal-majesty-ladoja-finally-wears-ibadan-beaded-crown-after-7-year-resistance\/\"><strong>Rashidi Ladoja<\/strong><\/a>, a former governor of Oyo and Otun Olubadan, is one of the 11 high chiefs in the succession line.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to succeed Olakulehin.<\/p>\n<div>Culled from The Cable.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owolabi Olakulehin, the Olubadan of Ibadan, is dead. Olakulehin passed on in the early hours of Monday, two days after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15376,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15371\/revisions\/15376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}