•Sheikh Ishola and Boko Haram terrorists The Grand Mufti of Yorubaland, Sheikh Abdulrasaz Abdulazeez Ishola, has said the new League of Imams and Alfas in Yorubaland, launched yesterday, will introduce Boko Haram and Maitatsine in Southwest Nigeria. Speaking with our correspondent, Ishola said the new establishment, which he condemned, should ...
•Tinubu and Trump Socio-cultural group, Alliance for Yoruba Democratic Movements, AYDM, has warned that there is an open agenda to Islamise Nigeria, saying while there are mass killings of Christians, Yoruba and Middle Belt Muslims have also been victims. AYDM urged governors of South-West states and those in Kogi and Kwara states to prepare f...
•Obasanjo and Peter Obi Former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi, yesterday urged Nigerians to live in unity and peace. Obi visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Olubadan-designate Oba Rashidi Ladoja. He broke the news of his visit to Obasanjo on his X handle. In Ibadan, after visiting Oba Ladoja at his Private residence in [&helli...
•Registered voters display their PVCs The South West has recorded the highest figures in the first week of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) online voter pre-registration exercise, accounting for more than 61 per cent of the 1,379,342 applications received between August 18 and 24, 2025. This was revealed as the commission c...
•Gunmen The Yoruba Afenifere Youth Organisation of Nigeria (YAYON) has issued a resolution calling for immediate and coordinated action to address the escalating security challenges in the southwest region and other Yoruba-speaking states. The resolution followed a security summit held yesterday at the House of Chiefs, Secretariat, Ibadan wher...
The congress of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest is going on at the Emeritus Theophilus Ogunlesi Hall, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Many delegates across the six Southwest states of Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ondo, Ekiti, and Lagos are voting to elect the executives in the 2025 Southwest elective zonal congress that will […]...
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has rejected the implementation of the Islamic Penal Code, also known as Sharia Court, in the South Western part of Nigeria. PFN Vice President Cosmos Ilechukwu made the statement at the 18th Biennial Conference of the PFN in Abuja, reports The Guardian. He also said that it is unfair […]
•Gani Adams The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams, today, said the call for Sharia law in Southwest by Muslims is a plot to destabilise Yorubaland. This was as he urged the federal and state governments to address the recent report influx of Boko Haram/Islamic State’s West Africa Province members into Oyo and […]
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 […]...
•Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke, has described the National President of the All Progressives Congress, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, as a threat to democracy, urging President Bola Tinubu to caution the former Kano State governor. In a statement issued today and signed by his media aide, Olawale Rasheed, Ade...

