The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has sought accelerated action for urgent take-off of state police to combat rising insecurity in the country. The organisation disclosed this in a communique issued yesterday and signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, after the end of its caucus meeting held in ...
•Tinubu with Katsina State delegation led by Governor Malam Dikko Umaru Radda on Sept 2 Barely 17 months after the Tinubu administration first expressed interest in establishing a decentralised police force, several sociopolitical groups, civil society organisations and ex-service men and women have intensified calls for its implementation. Th...
The Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, and some other groups in the country have expressed their support for a coalition of opposition groups in order to save the country from drifting to a one-party state. However, the groups insisted that only a broad-based grand coalition with respect to the established regional rotational preside...
•Rabiu Kwankwaso and Afenifere logo The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday berated former governor of Kano State and the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, over the claim that President Bola Tinubu’s administration has sidelined the north by concentrati...
The apex Yoruba socio-cultural and political organisation, Afenifere, has used the occasion of the commemoration of the June 12, anniversary, to call the attention of the federal and state governments, on the need to establish state and community policing as well as the restructuring of the country. In a Democracy Day message today signed by [...
•Tinubu A faction of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, is seeking immediate impeachment proceedings against President Bola Tinubu over the conflict of interest that trailed the award of Lagos-Calabar coastal road project contract. Speaking today, leader of the group, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, berated the president for awarding the co...
The Pan Yoruba socio-group, Afenifere, has backed the establishment of State Police against the federal government-controlled Forest Guards, describing it as anti-federalism. The group in a communique signed by the Secretary-General, Sola Ebiseni, after its Monthly General Meeting held at the residence its leader, Oba Oladipo Olaitan in Ilesa ...
•Eedris, Seyi and Tinubu A faction of Pan-Yoruba sociopolitical organisation, Afenifere loyal to the leadership of Late Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has upbraided President Bola Tinubu over the ban on Eedris Abdulkareem’s new song “Tell Your Papa”. Afenifere, in a statement yesterday signed by its acting Chairman and National Publicity Secretary, Oba O...
•Ishaq Akintola The Yoruba’s socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has warned all groups and interests against making incendiary statements or introducing practices that can endanger peaceful coexistence among the residents of Ekiti and other South-West states. The organisation also called on intelligence agencies, especially the Force Intel...
•Police The pan-Yoruba sociopolitical organization Afenifere has urged the federal government to allow the establishment of state police with immediate effect to tackle the upsurge of insecurity in Nigeria’s South-West geopolitical zone. The group equally advocated for the recruitment of more hands in the regional security outfit, the Amotekun...
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