Yoruba

Igbimo Asoju Yoruba to Yoruba: Embrace Tinubu’s reform agenda, shun protest against FG

A prominent socio-cultural group, Igbimo Asoju Yoruba (IAY), has lent its voice to the call on Yoruba not to join the planned protests...

Alleged corruption at Ilana Omo Oodua: Prof. Akintoye’s successor, Prof. Adeniran steps aside

Prof. Wale Adeniran, the new leader of Yoruba self-determination struggle also known as Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, has resigned his membership of the...

Fatal terrorists’ attack on Ondo church:  Declaration of war against Yoruba, says Prof. Akintoye

The Apex body for Yoruba self-determination and self-preservation movement, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide (IOOW) has described Sunday morning attack on worshippers at St....

YLF to FG: Respect Nigeria’s constitution on VAT collection

  “The Federal Government, through the FIRS, should desist from usurping the functions of states. President Muhammadu Buhari swore to defend the constitution,...

Igboho’s cats, Kanu’s interception and Buhari’s “language” By Reuben Abati

      When a few weeks ago, President Muhammadu Buhari declared that those who seek to overwhelm and undermine the Nigerian state...

Lagos “Yoruba Nation” casualty: Teenage girl selling drinks hit by police stray bullet

  A 14-year-old girl, selling soft drinks in front of her shop, simply identified as Jumoke, has been felled by bullets reportedly fired...

Nigeria is a nation and must be kept as one, says Tinubu at Aso Rock

“Nigeria is not just a rat village, it is a nation and we want to keep it as one,” so declared Asiwaju BolaTinubu...

Sule Lamido shatters Tinubu’s presidential ambition, says Buhari-Tinubu pact is nonextant

  A strong voice from the Fulani in the Northern Nigeria may have sounded a death-knell to the 2023 presidential ambition of Asiwaju...

Jimoh Aliu a.k.a Aworo, film writer, ex-President of ANTP, is dead

  The Nigerian movie industry has lost another veteran Yoruba playwright and former President of the Association of Nigeria Theatre Practitioners (ANTP), Jimoh Aliu...

Amotekun: The Politics of Protection by Reuben Abati 

        Virtually everything in Nigeria no matter how well-meaning ends up getting ethnicized, or politicized, or religionized.  So it is with Operation...

Gani Adams threatens to react to further herdsmen killings in southwest

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has reacted to the killing on Friday of Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the leader...

Aare Ona Kakanfo says ‘enough is enough’, we’ll defend ourselves if attacked by herdsmen

Gani Adams, Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, said there is far too much tolerance of herdsmen extremism in Yorubaland and promised to step up...

Adebayo Faleti, Legendary Author and Journalist, Dead at 86

Author-journalist Adebayo Faleti, the  award winning chronicler of  various movies and books, died Sunday. He was 86. Faleti died at the Ibadan Teaching...