OAUgist: PHOTOS: OAU students organise their own Oro festival in honour of late Ooni of Ife

Some students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, on Wednesday enacted how Oro festival, the final rite of passage for the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, might look like.
Residents of Awolowo hall woke up to the students in White and red clothes imitating the already postponed “Oro festival” slated for today, Wednesday, in Ife town.
A movement restriction had been announced for today for the final rite of passage for Oba Okunade Sijuwade.
On Monday, the Awara of Iwara-Ife, Oba Layi Adereti, declared that the death of Oba Sijuwade would be announced today.
He warned the residents to stay indoors because Oro rituals, will be observed from 6am till 4pm.