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"No burials, marriages, dancing will hold across all Itsekiri communities for three months," it was announced. by SaharaReporters, New York Apr 05, 2021 Itsekiri nation has formally announced the passage of its monarch, Ogiame Ikenwoli at Ode Itsekiri, its ancestral home in Warri, Delta State. The Iyatsere of Warri kingdom and Acting Chairman Warri council of Chiefs and Olu Advisory council, Chief Johnson Amatserunreleghe announced the development at exactly 11.32 am before a gathering of Itsekiri prominent chiefs, sons and daughters. According to Vanguard report, he also said a period of mou...

The palace in a statement initially denied the demise of the first-class monarch, describing the story as untrue. Despite the denial, SaharaReporters gathered that there has been tension in the area over who succeeds the monarch.  The crisis has also resulted in the suspension and counter-suspension of some high profile chiefs of the palace. Following the rejection and disqualification of Prince Tsola as the successor to the throne, a member of the royal family, Emmanuel Okotie-Eboh, had few days ago announced the purported suspension of the head of the Olu’s advisory Council.  The counci...

The late Emiko died in December 2020 from COVID-19 related complications. by Saharareporters, New York Feb 19, 2021 A new Olu of Warri has been chosen to succeed the late Ogiame Ikenwoli Godfrey Emiko, SaharaReporters has learnt.  The late Emiko died in December 2020 from COVID-19 related complications.  A source in the palace to SaharaReporters that the person chosen for the throne is the late Olu of Warri's 37-year-old son.  "A formal announcement will be made in two days after completion of palace rituals," the source added.  Emiko, the 20th Olu of Warri, died a week after his fifth c...

Olu of WarriIn spite of insinuations that the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli Godfrey Emiko, has passed away, the Palace, yesterday, refuted reports of his death, insisting that the monarch was merely indisposed. A statement issued by the Director of Palace Administration, Chief Clement A. Maleghemi, disclosed that the Olu of Warri was receiving medical attention in an undisclosed hospital. x The Olu, who celebrated his fifth coronation anniversary on December 12, 2020, was alleged to have taken ill and died shortly after on Monday from COVID-19 complications...

The Olu Of Warri, Ikenwoli Godfrey Emiko, is dead. It was gathered that the monarch allegedly died of COVID19 complications on Monday, barely a week after his fifth coronation anniversary. He was said to have met with the late Major General John Irefin, who died earlier this month from COVID-19 complications too. Efforts by The Guardian to get comments on the passing of the first class king from top palace chiefs including Ologbotsere (Prime Minister) of Warri Kingdom, Chief Ayirimi Emami was unsuccessful as telephone calls put across to him went unanswered.