•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...
•Nigerian Senate The Tinubu-led federal government’s ambitious effort to overhaul the nation’s tax laws has moved a step closer to reality following the submission of over 200 memoranda by diverse stakeholders to the Senate and House of Representatives. The National Assembly’s public hearings, which saw the participation of various interest gr...
•Natasha and Akpabio Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has thrown its support behind the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio on the ongoing face-off between him and Senator Natasha Akpoti bothering on allegation of sexual harassment. Afenifere, in a statement signed by its National Organizing Secretary, Kole Omololu, and...
•Chief Reuben Fasoranti The Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has faulted the appointment of Oba Oladipo Olaitan as its new leader, insisting that there is no vacuum in the leadership of the Yoruba group. Speaking on the purported announcement of Oba Olaitan as a new leader of Afenifere, the National Publicity Secretary of th...
Christian and Muslim leaders yesterday clashed over the planned inauguration of shari’a arbitration panel across the South-Western states of Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo and Lagos by the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs. This comes as the proponents of the Islamic code said there was no going back on their decision to set up the […]...
•Afe Babalola, Afenifere logo and Dele Farotimi Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, today, condemned in strong terms the continued incarceration of human rights activist/lawyer, Mr Dele Farotimi, without trial, demanding his immediate and unconditional release. Besides, Afenifere demanded that investigation should be conducted into th...
•Dele Farotimi A Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has condemned the arrest of a civil rights activist, Dele Farotimi, by the Nigerian police, demanding his immediate release. Farotimi, was arrested yesterday, over his book titled, ‘Nigeria and its criminal justice system’ said to have allegedly defamed a certain character in the book, r...
•Afenifere Ohaneze Ndigbo, Afenifere, Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (ACF) and other ethnic groups have recommended regionalism and parliamentary system as the only way to tackle various challenges plaguing the country. The major ethnic groups under the aegis of the Rebirth Group,TRG, also said the country should be renamed United Regions of ...
•Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and the leadership of the flagship socio-cultural group in Yorubaland, Afenifere, have pledged support for the South West Development Commission. Speaking today when he led a delegation from Afenifere to the Ooni’s palace in Ile-Ife to felicitate with him on the occasion...

