Tag: Yoruba
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Popular Yoruba actor, Kunle Afod’s marriage reportedly crashes
Popular actor, Kunle Afod and his wife, Desola, have parted ways. Desola made the announcement in a terse message on her Instagram page on Tuesday. She wrote, “The good news you wanna hear. I left Kunle Afod.” Desola had celebrated Kunle on his birthday on Monday where she prayed for him. She had…
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Atiku’s words not only unacceptable but irresponsible – Fani-Kayode
Reactions have trailed the comments of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar for saying the North does not need a Yoruba or Igbo president. Atiku said Northerners needed to vote for him rather than a Yoruba or Igbo candidate because he’s a Pan-Nigerian with a northern extraction.
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2023: Northerners don’t need Yoruba, Igbo as president – Atiku
Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar has said Northerners do not need a Yoruba person nor an Igbo person to be the president, stressing that the country needs a Northerner to be the president of the country next year.
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BREAKING: Prominent Yoruba kingmaker, Alapinni of Oyo is dead
One of the Oyomesi, the Alapinni of Oyoland, High Chief, Alh Abdul-Rasheed Shehu is dead.
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‘Nigeria cannot defeat the Igbo and Yoruba at the same time’
The greatest thing Nigerians accomplished in the last thirty years was electing Muhammadu Buhari as president. If he had lived and died without being president, no one would push back when politicians fall over themselves to deliver tributes and call him the greatest president that Nigeria never had.
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OPEN LETTER: “I see danger ahead, sir” – Fayose warns Tinubu
Let me start this letter to your good-self whom I considered as one of the leading lights of the Yoruba nation; as a letter that may not be patronizing, especially for the content based on the subjective views I will express here as a Yoruba man and not as a politician.
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Carlota Lukumi: Nigerian woman who led mass uprising in Cuba – By Owei Lakemfa
Carlota Lukumi, a Yoruba from Nigeria was about ten when slave raiders abducted her about two hundred years ago. She was one of the approximately 12.5 Africans abducted.
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Nollywood actors, Yoruba youths, UNIMAID pay tribute to late Alaafin of Oyo
Some Nollywood actors on Saturday mourned the passage of Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, Alaafin of Oyo.
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“Village Headmaster” back on screen after 34 years hiatus
After 34 years hiatus, “Village Headmaster”, the one time Nigeria first longest-running Tv drama series, has now been repackaged and will be shown on three local television stations.
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Dejo Tunfulu attended a party three days ago – Mr Latin
Popular Yoruba comic actor, Kunle Adetokunbo, popularly known as “Dejo Tunfulu” has been confirmed dead, aged 49. Bolaji Amusan, National President of the Theatre Arts and Motion Picture Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN), confirmed the death on Friday.