Olubadan To Install Prince Giwa As New Mogaji of Aliiwo Royal Family

Ibadan is agog as
Olubadan of Ibadanland, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin will on Monday, 10th February install a son of Aliwoland and United Kingdom based solicitor, Prince Kamaldeen Giwa as the new Mogaji of Aliiwo Royal Family.

Prince Kamaldeen Giwa would take the mantle of leadership of Aliiwo Royal Family after the demise of the immediate past Olubadan, Oba Mohood Olalekan Balogun, Ali-Okunmade, the second.

The new Mogaji is the 10th to emerge from the Aliiwo Royal Family since 1877 when Amodu Ejalonibu became the first Mogaji-Agba of the family.

The event , which will come up at the Olubadan Palace, Oke-Aremo will have in attendance sons and daughters of Aliiwo,such as Senator Kola Balogun, Former Oyo State Head of Service,Alhaji Tajudeen Aremu and host of others both at home and in the diaspora.

According to the ceremony committee, reception in honor of the new Mogaji will follow at the Aliwo Palace, Agodi-Gate, Ibadan.

Mogaji Kamaldeen Giwa,was born in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, He 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.

Mogaji Kamaldeen Giwa worked for the United Kingdom’s government for over two decades, and he is a 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 also include sports, literature, world affairs, travelling, and the preservation of traditional African architecture.
He is a Muslim, happily married with Children.