Tag: YCE

  • YCE suspends Olajide as Secretary-General

    YCE suspends Olajide as Secretary-General

    The crisis rocking the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) got a new twist as members of the Council on Thursday suspended its Secretary-General, Dr. Kunle Olajide indefinitely. This suspension was part of the decisions taken at the YCE Joint Meeting of Senior Elders’ Forum and Chairmen of State Chapters at the Council’s National Secretariat, Old…

  • Saraki mourns late YCE President, Idowu Sofola

    President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has expressed grief over the death of a foremost legal luminary and former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, (NBA), Chief Idowu Sofola SAN at the age of 84. Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, described Sofola as a…

  • Yoruba Council of Elders advocate fiscal federalism

    Yoruba Council of Elders advocate fiscal federalism

    To take Nigeria out of recession, the Yoruba Council of Elders otherwise known as Igbimo Agba Yoruba has suggested the adoption of fiscal federalism which will allow federating units to generate resources in their domains. In a communique endorsed by its Secretary- General, Chief Idowu Sofola (SAN) after an exhaustible deliberation in Ibadan presided by…