Ogboni
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This article is about a southwest Nigerian fraternal organisation. For the indigenous people of southeast Nigeria, see Ogoni people.
Ogboni (also known as Osugbo in Ijèbú) is a fraternal institution indigenous to the Yoruba-speaking polities of Nigeria, Republic of Bénin and Togo, as well as among the Edo people. The society performs a range of political and religious functions, including exercising a profound influence on monarchs and serving as high courts of jurisprudence in capital offenses.[1][2]
Its members are generally considered to constitute the nobility of the various Yoruba kingdoms of West Africa.[3]