Tag: Yoruba Group

Yoruba Group cautions Igboho over renewed threats to Fulanis

Aminu Imam

The Yoruba Welfare Group has issued a cautionary message to activist and philanthropist, Sunday Adeyemo, widely known as Sunday Igboho, urging him to tread with caution amidst his renewed threats to Fulani residents in the South-West. The self-styled Yoruba-nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, recently returned to Nigeria after an absence of over 30 months, having left in 2021 and subsequently being apprehended in Benin Republic on his way to Germany. Expressing concern over Igbohos latest statements, the Yoruba Welfare Group emphasised the importance of avoiding the ethnicisation or regionalisation of criminal…

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Yoruba Council of Elders endorses Tinubu for president

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The Yoruba Council of Elders, (YCE), has declared their full support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, in his quest to become the next president of Nigeria. The elders, who rose from a special executive session on Monday, described the effect of petrol and Naira crises across the nation as unbearable for the citizenry at home. The YCE Secretary-General, Chief Oladipo Oyewole, stated in Ibadan, Oyo State, that the group was convinced that Tinubus track record as Lagos State governor, his detribalised disposition, resourceful…

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Yoruba self-determination group to launch radio for promotion of agitation Jan, 1st

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The apex body of Yoruba self-determination struggle, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, (IOOW), will formally unveil Radio Ijangbara as the official broadcast radio of the Yoruba self-determination Struggle on Sunday January 1st, 2023. According to a joint statement signed by the Chairman and General Secretary of the Group respectively, Professor Wale Adeniran and Dr. Tunde Amusat, the online radio shall be broadcasting live from Dubai, United Arab Emirate (UAE), and shall serve the interest of Yoruba Self-Determination struggle within and outside the shores of Nigeria. Adeniran and Amusat said everyone can…

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2023: Group accuses ‘Yoruba nation’ agitators of planning to truncate 2023 polls

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A group, the Yoruba Appraisal Forum, (YAF), has raised the alarm over alleged plans by those championing and agitating for secession of Yoruba land from the rest of Nigeria to cause violence and chaos in the South-West and other parts of the country with the ultimate objective of truncating the conduct of the 2023 general elections. The YAF National Coordinator, Adesina Animashaun, raised the alarm at a press conference in Lagos yesterday. Citing recent utterances by the leaders of the agitators that the group would achieve the secession of Yoruba…

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2023: 121 pan-Yoruba groups adopt Tinubu as presidential candidate

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One hundred and twenty-one pan-Yoruba civil society, community-based groups in the South-West geo-political zone, under the aegis of Alliance for Yoruba Democratic Movements, (AYDM), has adopted the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The group made the declaration yesterday, during its conference held in Ikeja, Lagos State. Taiwo Ajayi, of the South-West Progressive Youth and People Movement, who made the declaration on behalf of AYDM, said for the past three months AYDM has held a string of consultations with…

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Self-determination Calls: ‘Insecurity, bad governance recipes for agitations’ Yoruba Diaspora group

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A prominent Yoruba Diaspora group, Yoruba One Voice, (YOV), has said that the agitations for self-determination will continue if the Federal Government didnt address issues that have been threatening the foundation of Nigeria and also pitting the ethnic nationalities against one another. The YOV made this known at the fifth edition of its global conference held via zoom, where participants gathered from all six continents of the world. The Diaspora group, while proffering solutions to the myriads of problems bedevilling Nigeria, also warned the Federal Government against clamping down on…

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Secessionists Agitation: ‘Yoruba set for peaceful exit’, Yoruba group writes Buhari

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A conglomerate of different Yoruba socio-political groups demanding self-governance in the South-West geo-political zone, the Yoruba Self-Determination Movement (YSDM), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to react to the letter written by the group that the Yoruba was set to secede from Nigeria peacefully. Referring to the letter, which was jointly signed by Professor Banji Akintoye, Banji Ayiloge, Chief Sunday Igboho, and Prof. Adeniran and Ayiloge, who is the vice-chairman of the group urged President Buhari to read and respond to their demands. He said: The letter was written to serve…

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2023: Southern presidency sacrosanct – Yoruba Ronu Group

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A socio-political organisation, the Yoruba Ronu Group, has cautioned those politicians promoting the concept of northern presidency to stop at it or else be viewed as marauders with incendiary comments, deliberately, to escalate the present security challenges in the country. The Chairman of the group, Diran Iyantan, said the Nigerian political elites are deliberately promoting disunity as a political weapon. This, he opined, is a dangerous trend capable of creating an unending crisis in the country and seeks to further polarise the country for more troubles than the ones on…

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2023: Aggrieved persons planning violence, chaos to truncate polls, YAF alleges

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A coalition under the aegis of the ‘Yoruba Appraisal Forum’ (YAF), has raised the alarm over alleged plans by some persons to cause violence and chaos in the South-West and other parts of the country with the ultimate objective of truncating the conduct of the 2023 general elections. The Forum alleged that some disgruntled persons in the South-West and their allies in other parts of the country and outside, have been engaging in ‘clandestine activities’ aimed at causing violence and sparking off killings, arson and mayhem that would undermine the…

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2023: 57 Yoruba groups meet in Lagos over Tinubu, Osinbajo, Fayemi

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..Vows to support a pro-restructuring contender Fifty-seven Yoruba groups met in Lagos with a resolve to mobilise the South-West for a pro-restructuring presidential candidate in 2023. The groups said the people of the South-West will take over the campaign, own the process and ensure the regions bloc vote like never before. They vowed to ensure that the 2023 presidential election produces a candidate that will restructure the country and resolve the lingering National Question irrespective of political platform. According to the groups, the 2023 election must produce a pro- restructuring…

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