Tag: Ogbomoso Tortoise
OAU Museum To Preserve Ogbomoso Tortoise’s Body Inside Soun’s Palace For...
To retain its relevance, the Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi, has agreed that the Natural Museum of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife,...
OBITUARY: Alagba, The ‘348-year-old’ Ogbomoso Tortoise And Pounded Yam Lover Still...
In the early 1970s, when Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka wrote his play, Death and the King’s Horseman, he embalmed a portion of Yoruba culture which...
JUST IN: Alagba, 344-year-old Tortoise In Soun’s Palace, Is Dead
A 344-year-old tortoise popularly known as Alagba, in the palace of the Soun of Ogbomoso, is dead.
The scared tortoise which was the oldest in...
