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Yoruba group dissociates self from secession clamour, harps on unity

On April 11, 20216:49 pmIn Newsby Urowayino Jeremiah

The Agbajowo Advocacy for Yoruba People’s Rights (AAYPR), a Pan Yoruba socio/cultural organisation, has rejected current secession clamours by some sections of the country. The group, which particularly condemned call for the break up of the country and secession of the Yoruba from Nigeria, made this known in a communique issued on Sunday in Ado
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Secession: Yoruba are going nowhere, S/South, S/East react to declaration of Oodua Republic

On March 27, 20217:00 amIn Newsby Nwafor

…Say it’s a plot to negotiate 2023 presidency …They can’t create problem and run away from its consequence …Actualizing self determination must follow due process …Whoever thinks Nigeria will disintegrate is dreaming …We need restructuring, not secession …It’s time to renegotiate our union …We can’t ignore Yoruba agenda of self determination By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa;
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SECESSION THREAT: Yoruba sovereignty not negotiable — Yoruba Global Alliance

On March 25, 20218:45 pmIn Newsby Nwafor

…As Ogun employs security men for public schools AMID calls for secession by some groups, a self-determination organisation, the Yoruba Global Alliance, yesterday, insisted that the proposed sovereignty of the Yoruba nation is not negotiable. Also worried by the recent kidnapping of students in schools by bandits in some parts of the country, the Ogun
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SELF DETERMINATION:We can no longer stop our youths – Yoruba leaders warn

On March 20, 20218:12 amIn Newsby Urowayino Jeremiah

Yoruba youth leader, Mr Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, who came to prominence after he issued an eviction notice to criminal herders in Ibarapa area of Oyo State last month has declared that it was time for the Yoruba to have their own nation to be called Oodua Republic, saying this is the year of freedom for Yoruba nation. Speaking at an event which video has gone viral, Sunday Igboho lamented that the Yoruba ethnic group had been marginalized under the present government and he would soon lead other Yoruba youths to declare freedom from the Nigerian state.

Diaspora Yoruba holds dialogue on restructuring

We will mobilise against troublemakers in S/West — YAF

On February 14, 20214:04 pmIn Newsby Bankole

A group, Yoruba Appraisal Forum, YAF, has given a stern warning to all those fomenting troubles under the guise of fighting for the freedom of the South-West to desist or risk the wrath of millions of its members across the region.

Yoruba, Hausa tensions in Oyo, Ogun: Don’t take the law into your hands, Akeredolu, Fayemi warn

On February 14, 20217:38 amIn Newsby Nwafor

…Four dead, houses razed as youths give herders 7-day ultimatum to quit Yewa By Dayo Johnson and James Ogunnaike Tension brewed in Ogun State, yesterday, where hoodlums suspected to be herdsmen allegedly launched an attack on Orile-Igbooro in Yewa North local government area, killing no fewer than four persons. Sunday Vanguard gathered that houses were
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Service Chiefs: Yoruba elders back Ohanaeze, urge Nigerians to speak up for Igbo in interests

On February 10, 20215:37 amIn Newsby Bankole

The South West elders, operating under the umbrella of Conference of Concerned Yoruba Elders (CCYE), expressed reservation over the alleged continuous sidelining of their Igbo neighbours from the security management team, saying they were losing sleep over the development given that it had happened for the second time, having experienced the first in 2015 when no military officer of South-East extraction made it in the security team composed by the president.

The wars Yoruba fight

On February 6, 20212:47 amIn Candid Notesby Emmanuel Okogba

By Yinka Odumakin SOME of our supposed compatriots of Fulani extraction have been taunting Yoruba to war of late thinking that the people are a senseless group who will fight as a first resort without choosing their battles and weigh the cost of a war. We have not forgotten so soon that when Nigeria had
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Yoruba in Diaspora declare support for Southwest security arrangements

On January 30, 20216:17 amIn Newsby Nwafor

By Chris Onuoha Leaders of thought and opinion within the Yoruba communities in America, Canada, and the United Kingdom have strongly declared their support for any form of security arrangements put to safeguard the entire Yorubaland from any attack by insurgents and other crime prone marauders in the Southwest part of the country. In a
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Insecurity: Be mindful of your utterances, Yoruba youths warn Northern leaders

On January 27, 20215:45 pmIn Newsby Urowayino Jeremiah

By Gabriel Olawale Alliance of Yoruba Youth Council, AYYC, on Wednesday, warned leaders of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF; the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, MACBAN, and Northern political leaders to be mindful of their utterances in view of the on-going rift between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in the Southwest. In a statement made available
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