Ijebu-Ode Celebrates 2026 Ojude Oba Festival Amidst Royal Transition
The 2026 Ojude Oba festival in Ijebu-Ode unfolded as a vibrant display of Yoruba culture, fashion, and tradition, coinciding with the third day of Eid-el-Kabir. Sponsored by First City Monument Bank (FCMB), the event featured high-fashion displays and modern activations, including a drone show by Seaman's Schnapps, reaffirming the festival's role as a living archive of Ijebu identity. Despite the absence of the late paramount ruler, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, the celebration remained a significant driver of tourism and commerce. FCMB Group CEO Ladi Balogun highlighted the event as a catalyst for economic enterprise and creativity, proving that the community's cultural bond remains unbreakable even during a period of royal transition.
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Inside Ojude Oba: Yoruba cultural festival rides on in Nigeria | DW News - World News
For the first time in 65 years, the Ojude Oba festival in Ijebu-Ode, southwestern Nigeria, took place without a king. The Awujale, who helped transform it into a global showcase of culture and fashion, died in 2025, and no successor has yet been named. Yet thousands still showed up, in horseback ...
Triumph of culture, breathtaking glamour as FCMB powers Ojude Oba Festival 2026
It was at the 2026 Ojude Oba Festival, which First City Monument Bank sponsored. The event attracted many visitors and gracefully unfolded as a feast of spectacles, colours, grandeur, and an unbreakable bond. For one, the great ‘omo alares’, as Ijebus are traditionally praised, proved that although their much-adored legendary monarch, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, has joined his ancestors, out of sight is not out of mind. Follow us on Google News ...
Every year, the ancient town of Ijebu-Ode transforms into a grand theatre of identity where history, prestige, fashion, music, commerce, and tradition converge in one of Africa’s most celebrated cultural gatherings. The Ojude Oba Festival is a living archive of a people’s story.
Ijebu-Ode aglow, buzzing with the Ojude-Oba festival despite the paramount ruler's absence - Businessday NG
The big royal vacuum created by the demise of Oba Sikiru Adetona, the late Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland, set tongues wagging prior to the Ojude-Oba Festival that was held last week Friday, the third day of Eid-el-Kabir, popularly known as the Ileya Festival among Yorubas.
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