The group, in a statement by its Secretary, Abimbola Adeyeri, said unfortunately those who have been making comments on the invasion of the Fulani settlement in Igangan, Oyo State by Igboho and his supporters, have failed to put the series of events that led to it into proper perspective.
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“We feel very sorry for the people who listen to the sermons of the mischief maker and the voice of disunity, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu,” the women said.
Rotimi Akeredolu, the Governor of Ondo, one of the six South Western States, had issued an ultimatum to herders, mostly of the Fulani tribe, to vacate the state’s forest reserves within one week. The folks are not rangers and have no business in forest reserves, much less turning them into grazing fields.
Speaking with journalists shortly after the fire incident, suspected to have been caused by arsonists, Adeyemo described the perpetrators as cowards.
He said this on Tuesday in an Instagram Live Chat with a popular journalist, Dele Momodu.
Ojudu, in a now-deleted piece published on his Facebook page on Monday, had alleged that opposition politicians contracted Igboho to disrupt the 2009 Rerun Governorship Election in Ekiti State.
A statement by the Agency’s Director of Operations, Engr. Adeleke Ismail, indicated that the fire outbreak was reported to it at exactly 3:20am through a telephone call from the scene of the fire
The Igboho phenomenon deserves some close attention. Sunday Igboho showed up in the fight against criminal herdsmen in Oyo State because of the shocking absence of leadership. The state Governor failed to defend the people’s interest. He did not stand up to the truth like Governor Akeredolu of Ondo state. He provided a vacuum which a Sunday Igboho decided to fill
A CAVEAT: There are Fulani who mean well and are doing well; just as there are some who have moved down south who simply are criminals. In fact, they also have these criminals up North, kidnapping and killing. We have people of other tribes who mean well and are also doing well; just as we have people of those tribes who are hardened criminals, too.
Recall that some few days ago, a popular Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Igboho, forcefully evicted Fulani herdsmen in Ibarapa community in Oyo State after giving them an ultimatum to leave due to their involvement in killings and kidnappings.
Apekanuko bespeaks the high esteem money holds among the Yoruba. Ego, the Igbo magic word for money, is the fuel of commerce. It is different from ego, the personality framework and double-edged sword of Sigmund Freud that can kill or save.
The election which came three months after the Appeal Court judgement was like war. The PDP ruling at the Federal level did not want to lose Ekiti while the opposition ACN led and financed by Bola Ahmed Tinubu wanted to take Ekiti by all means.
Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, also known as Askari, the Deputy President to late OPC Founder, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, said this in a statement on Sunday following an emergency meeting of OPC leaders at the Century Hotel, Okota, Lagos.
A former President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has called on all Nigerians to work together to douse…
The above alien challenges have successfully defaced the aesthetics and perforated the peace of Yorubaland. The army of beggars in Southwest today will sober even Senegalese-born author and first published Black African Francophone novelist, Aminata Sow Fall of the Beggars’ Strike fame.
Igboho had given quit notice to the Hausa-Fulani in Igangan, Oke Ogun area of Oyo State, leading his supporters to flush them out on Friday.
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said it would be dangerous, reckless and counterproductive of the Buhari-led government…
The former Minister, who named some of these leaders as Sunday Igboho and Olayomi Koiki, stated that they are strong, fearless, radical and young.
Afenifere in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, on Saturday said the people of Yorubaland were not scared of war as insinuated in the statement by ACF, signed by its spokesman, Emmanuel Yawe.
The apex Northern socio-political organisation raised the alarm in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Yawe, on Saturday.