Yoruba groups and people across the world have resolved to forge an active global alliance in pursuit of the defence and promotion of Yoruba culture and people all over the world as this is the best way to attain safety and prosperity of everything Yoruba.
Browsing: Banji Akintoye
The Emeritus Professor of History made this call during a reception held to honour his 85th birthday at the Secretariat of the Yoruba World Congress in Lagos.
In a statement on Monday morning, the Executive Producer of the programme, Olayinka Agboola, who is also the publisher of Parrot Xtra Magazine and PMParrong.com, confirmed that the enigmatic scholar will be available to answer questions from both interviewers in the studio and members of the public.
In a bid to make sure that Operation Amotekun remains a people-centered and people-owned initiative, the Yoruba World Congress has activated a help desk, tagged: “People’s Desk,” that will collate suggestions, concerns and observations on it.
The protest, code-named: “Amotekun Solidarity Walk,” which is being organized by Yoruba World Congress, an umbrella body of all Yoruba socio-cultural and Self Determination Groups within and beyond Nigeria, will take place in all the South West States capital.
This was contained in a communiqué made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Akure, Ondo State by the Yoruba Youth National Leader, Eric Oluwole, and the coalition’s spokesperson, Ojo Bright.
The National Leader of Pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, Senator Ayo Fasanmi, and an elder statesman and historian, Prof. Banji Akintoye, have urged Yoruba people to brace up for the presidency in 2023.
The Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has described the late Founder of the Oodua People’s Congress, Dr Frederick Fasehun, as great patriot and a selfless leader.
They stated thais in Abeokuta, Ogun State in the first summit of Yoruba socio-cultural organisation with the theme: “OMOLUABI PRINCIPLES: A CALL TO RETURN”.