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Like the Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo did some days ago, the Playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Monday, granted an interview to BBC News Pidgin over the midnight invasion of the home of Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho because of his struggle on Yoruba Nation or Yoruba self determination. He spoke on Nnamdi Kanu, Miyeti […]
Continue ReadingPer chance, we came across a tweet by one Potam @potam1304 exhibiting a TikTok video clip on Twitter with the caption, “This woman won’t kee me.” The woman spoke in local Nigerian language that men admire her vagina so much because it is very big. She stated that she cannot stay in any marriage for […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been reliably informed that I irritated a number of people in two recent articles, one titled “True Federalism and Other Fallacies” and the other “Restructuring and the 1963 Constitution”. I can understand the frustration of many southerners: they feel trapped in a country with people they would rather not live with. The events surrounding […]
Continue Reading“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a […]
Continue ReadingIlana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, has confirmed that 21 of its members, including one female, were arrested and detained at Panti Police Station, Yaba during the mega rally in Lagos on Saturday. Lagos state commissioner of police, Hakeem Odumosu, earlier on Sunday, said those arrested are 49 in number and […]
Continue ReadingThe Yoruba Youths Leader (YYL) and Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has estimated the losses incurred during the raid of his Ibadan home by DSS agents last Thursday, July 1 at N500 million. The activist has therefore caused a letter to be written to the Nigerian government through his counsel, […]
Continue ReadingTwo concessions are necessary before I make my points. One, while advocacy for self-determination is not criminal and is protected by international laws to which Nigeria is a signatory, calls for violence, instigation of violence against security officers, or machinating a plot to violently dissolve sovereign polities are criminal and have no legal protection anywhere […]
Continue ReadingThe claim that Kenya was where Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) was arrested and extradited to Nigeria had better not be true. Kenya? While Nigeria has stubbornly but ostensibly hidden the identity of its accomplice nation in the crude and gangsteric abduction saga, the United Kingdom, whose nationality Kanu holds, […]
Continue ReadingThe Lagos state police command has paraded the protesters arrested at the Yoruba Nation rally held at Ojota on Saturday, July 3. Speaking at the command headquarters on Sunday, Lagos state police commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu said the 49 suspects were arrested for violating the ban that no rally or gathering should hold in the state. He […]
Continue ReadingSeveral people have been reportedly killed as a fully loaded gas tanker lost control and rammed into Bode Market at Molete Area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, Nigeria, on Sunday, July 4. Number of casualties have not been ascertained as of time of filing this report. But an eye witness said he counted ten […]
Continue ReadingDJ FlexyNaija, a Nigerian Disc Jockey and hypeman is dead. The DJ who was said to be the only child of his mum, was allegedly poisoned to death on Saturday July 3. This however came after the student of Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State shared a Facebook post in which he talked about “success attracting […]
Continue ReadingThere are many myths circulated by various ethnic nationalities about the Yoruba people of the Southwest, and a personal experience with a non-Yoruba provoked me to address some of these myths using historical facts. Please bear with me, this is a long read. Myth one: The Yoruba are betrayers A lot of this angst, which […]
Continue ReadingChief Ayo Adebanjo, 93, leader of the Pan-Yoruba sociopolitical organisation, Afenifere, speaks with BBC News Pidgin anchored by Opeyemi, on the recent attack on the Ibadan private residence of Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, by men of the State Security Service (SSS), self-styled as the Department of State Services (DSS). (You can also find […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed gave out his daughter, Fatima Zara, to Malah Sheriff, in a quiet wedding on Friday, July 2. The groom is said to be either the nephew or son of former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff. This platform has not been able to independently confirm his identity at this […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress, film producer, film director and writer, Nkechi Blessing Sunday has gotten a new Ranger Rover and she took to her Instagram page to show the whip. Posing with the luxury car, the actress wrote: “A babe and her Baby.” See more photos below:
Continue ReadingOfficers from the Kwara State Police Command has arrested a suspect for allegedly selling the body parts of his father, Michael Olagunju, to some ritualists in Kajola, Odo-Owa in the Oke-Ero Local Government Area of the state. Olagunju was allegedly murdered on his farm at Kajola last Thursday by his son who connived with some […]
Continue ReadingPeople often assume the Yoruba are so successful as an ethnic nationality due to their thirst for education, and how it has penetrated down even amongst their remotest rural communities. But study them. Their culture of respect opens doors for them that even education cannot open. Diplomacy gives them supremacy. And their culture is often […]
Continue ReadingThe Area Comptroller in charge of Kano/Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Customs, Suleiman Pai Umar, has handed over one Sabo Suleiman to the Kano Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The suspect was arrested in a joint operation on June 17, 2021 by the EFCC, State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigeria […]
Continue ReadingEight years old I was when the Nigeria Civil War broke out in 1967. Championing that crusade on one side was Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu from the Biafra land. Yakubu Gowon who also doubled as the Head of State was commanding for the Nigerian side. I remember the deep trenches built in every neighbourhood in my […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, I don’t know about you, but the week started for me on a normal note. I had looked forward to my routine life of activities. Little did I envisage the big news ahead. Government backed, government style gangsterism, no less, descended on us without warning. No journalist could have anticipated such multiple events […]
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