Tag: Yoruba
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Trending video: Sunday Igboho lambasts Ooni of Ife, labels Makinde, Tinubu Fulani slaves
Oduduwa right activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, on Tuesday lambasted and labelled the Ooni of Ife Enitan Ogunwusi; APC national leader, Bola Tinubu and the Oluwo of Iwo, Abdulrasheed Akanbi as Fulani slaves. Igboho also alleged that the Ooni has refused to support the ongoing struggle to liberate the Yoruba from Fulanis…
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Fulani herdsmen: Ooni warns Sunday Igboho after visit to Buhari in Aso Villa
Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has advised Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, not to take laws into his hands but allow constituted authorities to handle the herdsmen menace. The monarch also warned Sunday Igboho to watch out for politicians seeking to hijack his agitations against killer herdsmen in the region. This is…
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Tension in Yorubaland: Ooni of Ife meets Buhari in Aso Rock( Photos)
First-class traditional ruler, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, on Tuesday met with President Muhammadu Buhari behind closed doors in the Villa. The prominent Yoruba monarch visited Aso Rock, amid heated ethnic tension in Ondo and some parts in Oyo state, generated by the recent locals-Fulani herders’ confrontation. The details of the meeting or…
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2023: Gov. Makinde jabs Tinubu, says Nigeria needs security, restructuring not Yoruba presidency
The Oyo State Governor, Mr Seyi Makinde, has indirectly deflated the underground moves by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu to rally South West leaders in supporting his alleged bid to contest for the office of the president by 2023. Makinde noted that Nigerians need adequate security and restructuring of…
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Obasanjo reacts on alleged rift, reconciliation with Gani Adams
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reacted to reports that he had a misunderstanding with the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams. The former president said the speculation was because he refused to grant Gani Adams’ request to visit him, when he was president and after he left the office. Obasanjo said he had a reservation…
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Ohanaeze condemns attempt to pit Yoruba against Igbo in Lagos
The apex Igbo socio-cultural and political body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has dissociated itself from inciting comments made by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, over the ongoing carnage in Lagos State. President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, said this on Thursday in a statement titled, ‘#EndSARS: Alleged destruction of Yoruba…
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[GRAPHIC PHOTOS] Burnt corpses, vehicles, other properties liter Lagos community after bloody tribal clash
After three days of unrest at Fagba, Iju area of Lagos, some corpses burnt beyond recognition were on Thursday recovered on the streets. This included cars and other business ventures razed down during the tribal clash between the Hausas and the Yorubas in the area. TheNewsGuru,TNG reports that eight people were killed during the fight,…
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Eight killed, houses, cars burnt as #EndSars protest turns into communal clash in Fagba, Lagos
Eight people are feared dead in Fagba, a Lagos community, as the #EndSARS protest degenerated into a communal clash. The clash, according to an eyewitness, began on Tuesday afternoon following an altercation between some of the protesters and an Hausa cart pusher. Following the provocation by the protesters, the Hausa lad opted to mobilise his…
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Yorubaland will be in needless war for 100 years if Nigeria is allowed to break – Akande
Former governor of Osun State and pioneer chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, has warned those agitating for the breakup of Nigeria to bury the idea as it may trigger another bloody civil war. Akande especially warned agitators from Yorubaland in Nigeria’s west, that the breakup of Nigeria can plunge the region…
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Service Chiefs: Afenifere must not allow political enemies use it for narrow interests – Yoruba youths
The Coalition of Afenifere Youth Groups (CAYG) has warned apex Yoruba socio-cultural organization, Afenifere not to allow itself to be used by political enemies of the country for their selfish interests. CAYG, in a statement signed by its Spokesman, Comrade Oloruntoba Durosinmi Etti, on Tuesday, disclosed that Afenifere is already looking like an extension of…