
Yoruba







Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye has said the struggle for the actualisation of the Yoruba Nation has gone beyond what the Nigerian State or anyone can stop.

The agitations are borne from the disillusionment, disenchantment and many years of political and socio-economic letdowns that Nigerians have suffered recently.

The Lagos state government says the clash between Okada riders and NURTW members at Iyana-Iba area on Monday, April 26, did not have any ethnic colouration.

An elder statesman and Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has explained that the late Yinka Odumakin helped him and the Afenifere group on restructuring.

The lying-in-state ceremony of the late activist and Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, is currentyl taking place at the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos state.

The police have reportedly taken over Mapo Hall, Ibadan the venue of the rally organised by Ilana Odua to sensitise people about the Yoruba secession agitation.

Kunle Olajide, the secretary-general of Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), has said Sunday Igboho does not represent the Yoruba people in his call for secession.

The southwest group alleged that the plot by the secessionists was aimed at instigating bloodshed in Yorubaland in order to achieve their plans and cause chaos.

Afenifere, a southwest-based socio-political group said it has not endorsed any presidential candidate. The group made the disclosure in a statement on April 7
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