Sentences with phrase «paramount ruler of»

No fewer than 10 unknown gunmen on Friday night kidnapped the pregnant wife of Ubong Assam, the paramount ruler of Esit Eket in Akwa Ibom.

The Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, says politicians in the country have muzzled the traditional rulers, arguing that the traditional institution had a vital role in governance.

In a press statement made available to newsmen in Kaduna on Tuesday, Chairman of CEDRA, Dr. John Danfulani, said «President Buhari's conscious refusal to include visiting of Southern Kaduna to commiserate with the immediate family, Chiefdom, and the good people of Southern Kaduna for the brutal and gruesome murder of a First Class paramount ruler of Numana Chiefdom in Sanga local government and his wife by the «unknown known» gunmen is a gargantuan contradiction to the recently released commentary on his human side.

Present at the monarchs meeting were HRM, Pere Dr. Charles Ayemi - Botu (OFR), paramount ruler of Seimbiri Kingdom, HRM King I. Timiyan (JP), Ebenanaowei of Ogulagha Kingdom and Chief Wellington Okrika, representing Gbaramatu Kingdom, who collectively affirmed that Clark as an Ijaw, was their subject and could not dictate to them.

The natives accused Mohammed Bello, minister of federal capital territory, and other officials of depriving the natives of their right to be the paramount rulers of the town.

Not exact matches

Or the free communal «yabis», to put it in Fela - speak, of the Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, Udi Iroko yearly festival of yore, in which not even the Ewi, the town's paramount ruler himself, escaped the all - seeing eyes, and free - lashing tongue, against any secret peccadilloes!

According to him, «as the traditional ruler of Ikate Elegushi Land, the welfare of the people and development of Lagos State are most paramount to me.

The statement read, «The bodyguard of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, in what seemed to be an errand message, pushed Oluwo at the public gathering of the first - class paramount rulers held at the Presidential Hotel, Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State last Tuesday.

«Dignitaries at the event were taken aback by what they considered as a desecration of the crown as the bodyguard of the Ooni pushed a first - class paramount ruler, Oluwo.

Ambition smoldered within the courts and securing loyalty from within was paramount to both the success — and survival — of a ruler.