Browsing: Yoruba Koya Movement

YWC is the umbrella body of about 100 Yoruba socio-cultural groups within and beyond Nigeria, with a Professor of History, Banji Akintoye, as its President-General

The group, an amalgamation of all sociocultural and self-determination groups in Yorubaland, had converged to discuss insecurity in the land, an event which they also want to use to celebrate the June 12 in the city

The central government was also told to convene a Sovereign National conference so that the people of Nigeria can meet to decide on the kind of constitution they desire, describing the current 1999 Constitution of Nigeria as amended as a “Military Law in Civilian Uniform”

Barring any last minute hitches, the agitation for the restructuring of Nigeria’s political, economic and social structures will further reverberate on October 1, the country’s Independence Day, in Lagos as numerous prominent Yoruba leaders