2022年1月21日 · The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has sent a Save Our Soul (S.O.S.) message to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, regarding the forceful abduction and initiation of Muslims against their ...

Such ancient religions and festivals include Ògún, Orò, Yemoja, Egúngún, Gèlèdé, Awo Opa (Opa Cult) and the Òsúgbó/Ògbóni Cult). Àgbòyí could be aptly thus be described as an oasis of customs and traditions within the modern metropolitan Lagos.

2021年4月22日 · On January 3, 1953, members of Awo Opa, carried out their threat. They killed Alfa Apalara on Tapa Street at Oko Oba, Ebute-Meta, Lagos. It was a devastating blow to the Muslim community, who ironically appeared at that point in time to be winning a war against paganism and its adherents, while cult members rejoiced that an end had come for a ...

2020年12月15日 · Alfa Bisiriyu Apalara, a notable Nigerian Muslim cleric of his time in the early 1950s, who held a series of crusades and Dawha in the Ebute-Metta and Mushin areas of Lagos,...

2020年3月19日 · According to a representative of Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), as stated in correspondence with the Research Directorate, the word "Ogboni" is a generic term that can refer to "several Ogboni societies," such as the Osugbo, Aborigine Ogboni Society, Awo Opa, or the Reformed Ogboni Fraternity (ROF), for example (Nigeria 21 ...

The Onikoyi Chieftaincy Family claimed that their ancestor, one Adeyemi, a former Onikoyi at Ikoyi Ile in old Oyo, who migrated to Lagos at the time of Olofin brought Awo-Opa to Lagos. However, it is to be noted that the Eletu Awo owned the Irele Ishagbe which is regarded as the headquarters of Awo-Opa in the whole of Lagos State.

2020年12月15日 · Alfa Bisiriyu Apalara, a notable Nigerian Muslim cleric of his time in the early 1950s, who held a series of crusades and Dawha in the Ebute-Metta and Mushin areas of Lagos, with the...

2022年5月21日 · Between 2014 and 2018, I studied the structure, values, and functions of religious leaders in African Traditional Religion in Yorùbáland with particular emphasis on the Ijinla fraternity, known as Awo-Opa and the Osugbo in Lagos.

In Apalara’s murder case, eleven accused persons were convicted and sentenced to death, for the murder of Alfa Bisiriyu Apalara, on the 3rd of January, 1953 at the Oko Baba area of Ebute-Metta,...

2022年1月20日 · Director, MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola, in a statement to SlyeNews said: “Madam Bilkis Alaba Taiwo, a Muslim and member of the Ikorodu Muslim Community Association, was forcefully initiated into the Awo Opa Cult of Ikorodu in Lagos State on Thursday, 9th December, 2021 after dragging her into the shrine and after forcing her to swallow a ...