A United Kingdom-based solicitor, Prince Kamaldeen Giwa, will be installed as the Mogaji of Aliiwo Royal Family on Monday.
The installation ceremony will be performed by the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin, at his palace in Oke-Aremo, Ibadan.
Prince Giwa will assume the mantle of leadership of Aliiwo Royal Family after the passage of the immediate past Olubadan, Oba Olalekan Balogun, Ali-Okunmade II.
The new Mogaji is the 10th to emerge from the royal family since 1877 when Amodu Ejalonibu became the first Mogaji-Agba of the family.
The Monday event will be attended by sons and daughters of Aliiwo at home and from the Diaspora.
A reception in honour of the new Mogaji will follow at the Aliwo Palace, Agodi-Gate, Ibadan.
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Born in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, Prince Kamaldeen Giwa had his primary and secondary education at The Polytechnic Staff School and The Polytechnic High School, Ibadan.
He had his first degree in Sociology at the University of Lagos in 1993 and proceeded to have another degree in Law at the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom.
Prince Giwa worked for the United Kingdom’s government for over two decades and he is solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.
He is a director of a leading law firm in the United Kingdom and has various business interests in Africa and Europe.
The new Mogaji is a philanthropist of note, especially in the areas of education, poverty alleviation and access to justice.
His hobbies include travelling and preservation of traditional African architecture.
Nigerian Tribune
