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Yoruba To Hold Protest In Support Of Amotekun

January 18, 2020 10:40 am
Yoruba World Congress (YWC), an umbrella body of all Yoruba socio-cultural groups, has threatened to hold a peaceful protest in support of the recently launched Western Nigeria Security Network code-named Amotekun.

NAN gathered the launch of the new security outfit has attracted several attentions from many prominent Nigerians, groups and bodies.

While some have seen the outfit as a good development, others have seen it as an aberration to the existing constitution and security agencies.

The federal government has also declared the outfit as illegal.

YWC in a response to the launch, said it has concluded plans to organise a

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Yoruba Youths Demand Clarification On Osinbajo’s Fate

November 18, 2019 2:34 am

Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide (YCYW) yesterday rose from a meeting in Lagos and demanded from the Presidency a clarification on the fate of Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and his office, saying the controversies trailing the sacking of his aides were giving cause for concerns.

This was coming as the group urged Nigerians to shun negative attacks targeted at the personality of the Vice President, lamenting that the multiple attacks were being orchestrated by some disgruntled elements in the Presidency to reduce Osinbajo’s growing national statue and acceptability.

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I Insist, We Are Sons, Daughters of Oduduwa, Not Yorubas

I Insist, We Are Sons, Daughters of Oduduwa, Not Yoruba

November 2, 2019 3:54 am

I just read the contribution of Professor Stephen Banji Akintoye, a notable and respected historian, to the burning debate about the origin and meaning of the word Yoruba. I scrutinised his arguments and I considered his sources. I welcome his submissions but I respectfully disagree with his conclusions. I maintain my original position and I stand by what I wrote in my essay: I am not a Yoruba but a son of Oduduwa.

There are two demeaning and insulting names and words that the Fulani gave and used to describe southerners. Firstly came “Nyamiri” (meaning ‘fetcher of water’) in reference …

Fulani Dominance: Yoruba elders in diaspora take case to UN

Fulani Dominance: Yoruba elders in diaspora take case to UN

July 21, 2019 2:00 am

Yoruba elders in the Diaspora, under the aegis of the Yoruba Council of Elders in Europe and America, have petitioned the United Nations (UN) against the prevailing security situation in Nigeria, calling on the international body to prevent every attempt to foist Fulani dominance in the country, a situation they say may lead to crisis.

In the letter to the UN Secretary General, Mr. António Guterres by the Coordinating Secretary of the Yoruba Council of Elders, Elder Michael Olawale Shadare, the group alerted the world to the dangerous build-up to a possible genocide, owing to such grim occurrences as mindless …

You are a disgrace to the Yoruba, Kanu blasts Tinubu

You are a disgrace to the Yoruba, Kanu blasts Tinubu

July 16, 2019 3:24 am

The Supreme Leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra(IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has lambasted the national leader of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for  alleging that the Igbos were responsible for the gruesome murder of Pa Reuben Fasonrant’s daughter, Late Mrs Funke Olakunrin. Kanu, who took to his verified official Facebook page poured his vituperation on Tinubu for what he considered as, “unguarded utterances,” described Tinubu as, “a disgrace to the noble Yoruba ancestry.”

Tinubu, who paid a condolence visit to the Afenifere Chieftain on Sunday while responding to questions from reporters on the high rate of insecurity in …

Two foremost Yoruba leaders yesterday differed on the circumstances surrounding the death of the daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the

Yoruba split over killing of Fasoranti’s daughter

July 15, 2019 1:27 am

Two foremost Yoruba leaders yesterday differed on the circumstances surrounding the death of the daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the national leader of the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere. While the incident has continued to generate heated debates across the polity, the divergence between National Leader of the All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu and Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi might further cripple the ethnic group’s chances to curb insecurity through collective action. Mrs. Funke Olakunri was killed on Friday as she traveled to Lagos.

The Ooni declared that the southwest has had enough of killings by herdsmen, saying it is …

Afenifere Leader’s daughter’s killing: Yoruba youths react

Afenifere Leader’s daughter’s killing: Yoruba youths react

July 13, 2019 12:45 am

Following the killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere Chairman, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, by persons suspected to be herdsmen in Ondo State, yesterday, a youth group, Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association (YYSA), while expressing shock over the incident, has given Miyetti Allah a three-day ultimatum to fish out the perpetrators of the nefarious act.

Confirming the murder of the daughter of the factional leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, its spokesman, Mr. Yinka Odumakin in a statement said 58-year-old Mrs. Olakunrin was killed by persons suspected to be herdsmen while heading to Ore Junction from Akure, Ondo State, where she …

How Yoruba leaders disintegrated Afenifere, by Segun Osoba

How Yoruba leaders disintegrated Afenifere, by Segun Osoba

July 8, 2019 1:33 am

Chief Segun Osoba, a former governor of Ogun State under the Alliance for Democracy (AD) (1999-2003) and one of the founding members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) interacted with journalists about the preparations for his 80th birthday anniversary coming up on July 15, 2019 and his book entitled Battlelines: Adventures in Journalism and Politics, being launched today. He discussed how journalism impacted his life positively, various assassination attempts on his life and the problems of Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, among other national issues. SEYE OLUMIDE was there.    

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Traditional rulers need funding to help curb crimes - Oluwo

Oluwo calls for urgent reforms of Yoruba traditional system

May 18, 2019 11:04 am

As the Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdul-Rasheed Adewale Akanbi, Telu I, called for urgent reform of Yoruba traditional system, he charged the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II and the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, not to be silent on the lingering disunity among Yoruba traditional institution and insecurity ravaging Yoruba nation.

According to him, “silence at this critical point of our life is not golden,” saying the people are looking up to them for quality and visionary leadership.

Oluwo, who said it was disappointing that nothing is being done to address animosity characterizing the Yoruba …

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