By Akin Osuntokun The power politics that defines Ilorin ensued in the 1820s with the defeat of Are Ona kakanfo Afonja, in the Alimi (the Fulani spiritual consultant to Afonja) insurrection against the political status-quo…
By Akin Osuntokun “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” –George Santayana History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce –Karl Marx “The only thing that we learn from…
By Simon Kolawole A Yoruba Muslim engineer recently alleged that because of his Islamic faith, he was denied a job by Femi Osibona, the real estate tycoon behind the collapsed 21-storey building. Since then, there…
By Wale Oyewale The Oodua Peoples Congress, New Era, has condemned the ultimatum issued by the Arewa Youth Assembly for the Yoruba living in the North to vacate the zone. The OPC National Public Relations…
By Segun Adewole A fundraiser set up on Gofundme to help support Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, has raked in £31,470(N16.4m) as of the time of filing this report….
By Deji Elumoye and Udora Orizu Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday, asked social media platforms to stop giving publicity to people, who peddle fake news, especially ones targeted at creating ethnic tension. He said…
By Reno Omokri In my Sunday January 19, 2020 piece for my ThisDay column, #TheAlternative, I wrote that by not using his influence to delay the start off of Amotekun until after 2023, Bola Tinubu…
It was a surprise to some Nigerians when CNN reported that most Nigerians and Kenyans have confidence in President Trump according to the Pew research in January 2020. If this story were reported by Fox…
Be Wary of Emir Sanusi, Group Urges Yoruba By Segun James A Pan-Yoruba group, the Yoruba United Front (YUF), has called on the people of the Southwest to be wary of the deposed Emir of…
By Akin Osuntokun “No state government, whether singly or in a group has the legal right and competence to establish any form of organisation or agency for the defence of Nigeria or any of its…
