Tag: Secession Agitations

Oyo: Court declares ‘Yoruba nation’ agitation legal

Aminu Imam

An Oyo State High Court, presided over by Justice Ladiran Akintola, on Friday, made a declaration that campaigns for self-determination by people in Nigeria is legal and a fundamental human right.  Delivering judgment in a suit filed against the Federal Government by Chief Sunday Adeyemo, otherwise called Sunday Igboho, Justice Akintola said with the combined provisions of international and domestic laws, Nigerians, including Igboho, had the unquestionable and inalienable fundamental right to campaign and agitate for self-determination.  Respondents in the suit were the Attorney-General of the Federation, the State Security…

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Secessionist agitation: ‘No going back on 1 million-man protest at UN General Assembly’ — Yoruba nation, IPOB, others insist 

Aminu Imam

Barring any last-minute change, the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, (NINAS) has vowed to go ahead with the one million march in front of the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, United States. NINAS is the umbrella body of leading regional self-determination groups in the South and Middle Belt of Nigeria. In NINAS, a renowned historian, Prof. Banji Akintoye is representing the South-West and Yorubaland; the Lower-Niger Congress, under the leadership of Tony Nnadi, is representing the South-South, South-East and Middle-Belt Renaissance Movement, under the leadership of Professor…

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Igboho: Yoruba nation rally may resume today

Aminu Imam

Barring any last-minute change, agitators have announced plans to resume their secessionist agitation for a Yoruba nation protest today, Saturday. The Nation learnt the rally is based on solidarity and support for embattled Yoruba nation agitator Sunday Igboho currently in detention in Cotonou. Igboho’s spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, in a broadcast, disclosed that the rally would take place at the hometown of his embattled principal. Igboho, who was first detained in the Republic of Benin,  at the Brigade économique et financière (BEF), is at Prison Civile de Cotonou — Cotonou Civil…

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‘Igboho, Nnamdi Kanu unserious people’ – Gov. Oyetola lambast secessionist  agitators

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Osun State governor, Gboyega Oyetola, has described Nnamdi Kanu, Sunday Igboho, Professor Banji Akintoye and all the agitators calling for a total breakup of Nigeria as unserious. The governor said he rather believes in the devolution of power to the states and the economic restructuring of the country. Oyetola made the statement in Abuja yesterday when he featured at the flagship interview platform of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum. According to the governor, every State in the federation has both human and natural endowments that can be used…

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Agitations: UK urges for genuine dialogue, reconciliation

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…As Sweden commits $60m humanitarian fund for N/East The British Deputy High Commissioner in Nigeria, Ms. Gill Atkinson, has appealed for genuine dialogue, reconciliation to end all various agitations across the country. This is coming as the Swedish Ambassador to Nigeria, Micheal Grans, disclosed that the Swedish Government has spent no less than $60million to support victims of Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East region.  Both stated this shortly after they delivered an address at the AfriMUN’21 Conference, 7th edition, which was held for the first time in Ibadan, the…

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‘2023 polls must be suspended’ Says Akintoye, others

Aminu Imam

The Chairman, Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, (NINAS), Prof. Banji Akintoye has declared all lawful means would be deployed to ensure the 2023 polls do not hold unless the Federal Government agrees to hold a referendum for the aggrieved indigenous nationalities. Akintoye, represented by Don Pedro Obaseki, spoke on behalf of the body at a briefing yesterday, in Lagos. He stated the essence of the referendum is to decide whether Nigeria will continue to exist as a federation. NINAS appealed to political parties to save Nigerians from slavery by…

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Just In: “We have no link with IPOB” – Yoruba nation agitators

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A Yoruba self-determination group, Ilana Omo Oodua, headed by Professor Banji Akintoye, has denied having any links to the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB). The statement is coming amidst reports that the Federal Government intends to proscribe the Yoruba group also. Speaking on the development, Maxwell Adeleye, Akintoye’s spokesman told punch “There is no basis for the proscription of Ilana Omo Oodua. The government can only proscribe a terrorist group and not a peaceful group like Ilana Omo Oodua. All our members arrested in Ojota (area in Lagos), were charged…

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Secession calls: Ijaw leaders insist on demands before Buhari

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…Says it’s non-negotiable President of Ijaw National Congress (INC), Prof. Benjamin Okaba, has declared that the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to meet the demands tabled before him by Ijaw leaders during their last meeting in Abuja may lead to the declaration of an independent Ijaw nation. Okaba stated this in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, during a reception and award of excellence organised by people of Akassa, Nembe and Ogbia communities in honour of National Vice President 2 of the INC, Chief Nengi James-Eriworio and National Legal Adviser, Mrs.…

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Yoruba nation: Akintoye, others to lead self-determination groups on one million-march to UN 

Aminu Imam

…Demands supervised referendum  The agitation for a Yoruba nation has intensified, as the eminent leaders of thought from the South and Middle Belt of Nigeria have announced a ‘One Million March’, to be held in front of the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York, the United States, from 14th to 21st September 2021. According to the agitators, the march is meant to demand a referendum on self-determination and abolition of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution. The leaders are members of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, (NINAS), who signed the…

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“Drop your agitation and let’s dialogue”, Ganduje urges secessionists

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Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has stated that the agitation of secessionists is not the solution to the challenges confronting the country. This was stated by Abdullahi Ganduje yesterday, at a public lecture in Abuja organised by the All Progressives Congress, (APC) Press Corps. There has been a clamour for the Biafran Republic by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Oduduwa Republic by ‘Yoruba nation’ groups in the south-west. According to the governor, the secessionists should have a change of heart and embrace dialogue over their…

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