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Court stops Oro Day 2025, bars Monarch from Ulusing ‘Oro Kingdom’ on titles and signage

The High Court sitting at llorin has extended the interim injunction it granted on November 24, 2025, further restraining the celebration of Oro Day.

The court extended the injunction till 22nd December 2025, pending the determination of the substantive suit brought before it.

It also granted the order restraining the use of Oro Kingdom on the monarch’s “seal, title, awarded honorary titles, his chiefs, signposts and other related or allied title including all the towns in Oro district using Oro Kingdom as suffix to their names.”

The presiding judge, Justice M. Abdulgafar at the resumed hearing on Tuesday, ordered Oba Joel Olaniyi Titiloye, Oloro of Oro District, their agents, privies, servants and anybody claiming authority through them from celebrating ORO DAY 2025 and further making publication on the said ORO DAY 2025 as being carried out by the defendants on facebook or any social media platform before the above date and final determination.

He warned that disobedience to the court order amounts to contempt.

In another case, the court also granted an Application for substituted service on Oba Joel Olaniyi Titiloye.

Justice Abdulgafar ordered the court papers be pasted on the defendants house at the giving address.

He stated that pasting the order papers on his house will be deemed as sufficient service.

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