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Afenifere: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (In Memory of Chief Ayo Adebanjo), By Akin Osuntokun

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Yesterday In the understanding of ‘ethnicity as the expression of solidarity and common loyalty of peoples who share among themselves a country and a culture’- Chief Obafemi Awolowo was right to commit himself to the notion and evolution of ethnic solidarity among the Yoruba. To put it in his precise phrase “I would see to it […]

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Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo is dead

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Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere leader, Chief Samuel Ayodele Adebanjo, simply called Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has passed away. He died on Friday at his Lekki residence in Lagos State. He was aged 96. A statement by the family said he died peacefully. The statement reads: “With a heart full of gratitude for a selfless life […]

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Chief Ayo Adebanjo explains source of funds for his Lekki house, calls on EFCC to probe Tinubu, Akande’s sources of wealth

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Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, on Thursday, lambasted former interim national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, for saying he (Adebanjo) pestered APC chieftain, Bola Tinubu, to build him a house in Lekki, where he now resides. Chief Adebanjo, 93, at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday, […]

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