Nigeria, May 10 -- The Oyo State Government has conferred a traditional title on the 'sacked' Baale of Lanlate, Abdulateef Olagoke.

This is despite a court judgment by a state high court on October 5, 2018

that ordered the monarch to vacate the stool.

The judgment was in a 19-year legal battle on the rightful person to occupy the Lanlate chieftaincy stool.

The court reinstated Olusegun Oladejo of the Oguntayi family as the Baale of Lanlate.

The state government, in a letter dated February 13, 2012, had installed Mr Olagoke of Bioku ruling house as the Baale of the town. Prior to that, the state government had controversially deposed Mr Oladejo from the stool.

But in its judgment delivered by Justice B.A. Taiwo, the court held that M...