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Native Brazilians arrest monkeys with what is called Cumbuca. They make a hole in a gourd that is big enough to accommodate the hand of a monkey. The gourd is then affixed to the ground of a place infested by monkeys. Placed inside the gourd is usually a banana for the attraction of the monkey. The monkey […]
Continue ReadingOn Saturday, April 13, a group of 18 masked persons dressed in army camouflage, armed with rifles, charms and Oodua Nation flags attempted to take over the Oyo State House of Assembly and Government Secretariat to proclaim the emergence of a Yoruba Nation. They caused some commotion as they insisted on hoisting a flag, but […]
Continue ReadingMarriage institution is as old as the human race. It is also as prominent as the human society; transcending country, nationality, race, religion, and culture. It is one of the basic socially acceptable relationships among the human beings. Given, my knowledge of traditions and cultures of many social groups may be limited; the definition or […]
Continue ReadingThe leader and arrowhead of Ilana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups worldwide, has written a letter to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the activities of the body and the intention of the Yoruba people to become an independent nation. Read below the letter […]
Continue ReadingIlana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups being led by Prof. Banji Akintoye, has through the Prof. in a news conference, told the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and other Southwest All Progressives Congress leaders not to hurt the agitations for Yoruba freedom and that the Yoruba […]
Continue ReadingIn a press statement, the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has condemned the attack on a Catholic church where many people were killed in Ondo State, accusing the Nigerian government of monopolising the nation’s security architecture. See the statement below: “OWO CARNAGE: A WAR ON THE YORUBA NATION. “The horrendous incident at the St. Francis Catholic […]
Continue ReadingUmbrella body of the Yoruba self-determination group, Ilana Omo Oodua on Thursday insisted that the embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, committed no crime by agitating for peaceful secession from the Nigerian State. The group led by 86-year-old Professor of History, Banji Akintoye, said the regime of the President, Muhammadu […]
Continue ReadingOlayomi Koiki, spokesperson to the Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has reiterated the mind of the activist on the actualisation of the Yoruba sovereign nation. In a statement issued by Koiki, he said Igboho has maintained that Nigeria as a country does not exist any longer for him as he believes the […]
Continue ReadingThe salesgirl who was allegedly killed by a stray bullet during the Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos on July 3, Jumoke Oyeleke, died from a missile injury, according to the report of an autopsy conducted on the remains of the 25-year-old on Monday. Reporters on July 3 had put her age at 14, maybe because […]
Continue ReadingInternational Criminal Court (ICC), on Tuesday, acknowledged receipt of the 27-page petition filed by the Yoruba Nation agitators. Signatories to the petition are the Leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye; Yoruba Activist, Sunday Adeyemo fondly called Sunday Igboho; and other 49 Yoruba Self-Determination Groups. Others who signed the petition with Akintoye and […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and rights activist, Funmi Falana, has filed a formal request for a coroner inquest into the killing of a salesgirl during Saturday’s mega rally of Yoruba Nation agitators at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park, Ojota, Lagos. The teenage girl, whose name, is given as Jumoke Oyeleke, was found drenched in her blood and […]
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 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 Reading14-year-old girl, identified simply as Jumoke, has been killed by bullets reportedly fired by a security operative dispersing Yoruba Nation agitators around the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos State, Nigeria. Persons who sighted the girl’s corpse, observed that bullets had ripped open her stomach. The unfortunate victim is said to be 14 years of […]
Continue ReadingIba Gani Adams, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, has threatened to place a curse on politicians infiltrating and frustrating the struggle for Yoruba nation. Adams said some prominent politicians in the Southwest have infiltrated the struggle for the actualisation of the Yoruba nation. The Aare Onakakanfo was quoted as saying this at the weekly O’odua […]
Continue ReadingAgitators for a separate sovereign Yoruba nation under the auspices of Ilana Omo Oodua today May 22, stormed the streets in Akure, the Ondo State capital to sensitize the people and continue the demand for the creation of a Yoruba nation. See more photos below:
Continue ReadingYoruba Youths Leader (YYL) and rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, on Saturday afternoon May 15, stormed Osogbo the capital of Osun State, Nigeria, to demand the creation of Oduduwa sovereign state. Igboho stormed the capital city with many of his supporters in his convoy. The youths leader, who spoke at the […]
Continue ReadingCommunique issued at the end of the meeting of Yoruba Summit Group on The State of Yoruba Nation in Nigeria Preamble The essence of government at all levels is the security and welfare of the people. The COVID-19 pandemic and the inadequate responses, closure of the borders in the Western part of the country with […]
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