NewsPol

The Presidency has defended the security crackdown on Sunday Igboho, the leader of the clamour for Yoruba Nation, as well as what it termed the ‘interception’ of Nnamdi Kanu.   Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was intercepted from a yet to be named country where he travelled to from Britain and repatriated […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered a former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Adedibu Ojerinde, to be remanded in prison custody.   Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a ruling on Tuesday, refused a bail application brought by Ojerinde’s counsel,  Peter Olorunnishola (SAN).   Justice Egwuatu instead ordered that […]

The Southern Governors Forum rose from its meeting on Monday in Lagos with a declaration in support of the rotation and zoning of the Presidency to the South in 2023.   The governors also reviewed the situation in the Country and focused on the current security situation, constitutional amendment, Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), which was […]

  A girl, simply identified as Jumoke, has been killed by a stray bullet at the Yoruba Nation rally held at Gani Fawehinmi Park, Lagos on Saturday.   The protesters are demanding a new country to be carved out of the current western region of the country.   Jumoke, whose age is about 14 years, […]

Daring gunmen in the early hours of Monday (today) invaded a school in Kaduna State and abducted an unspecified number of students.   The bandits took away students of Bethel Baptist Secondary School in Kaduna, located in Maraban Rido, Chikun Local Government Area of the State, on the outskirts of the state capital.   The […]

…says govt should apologise to him   Prof. Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in literature, has berated the Federal Government over its attacks on and subsequent hunt for Sunday Igboho, the prime leader in the agitation for Yoruba Nation.   Speaking on Monday in an interview on BBC News Pidgin programme, the acclaimed playwright […]

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered investigation into the circumstances that led to the death of a 14-year-old girl in Ojota on Saturday during the Yoruba Nation Mega Rally.   This was disclosed in a statement by the Lagos Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo, on Sunday.    “Our attention has been drawn to the […]

President of Campaign for Democracy, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, has faulted the raid carried out on the house of the Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho.   Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin also charged security operatives to conduct an investigation into the alleged death of a girl at Yoruba Nation rally in Ojota, Lagos State […]

  Sunday Igboho, the  leader of the campaign for Yoruba Nation, has  written a petition to the federal government protesting damage to his residence, cars and other property by state agents as a result of the attack on his residence on Thursday by agents of the Department of State Service.   Igboho stimated his losses […]

Ilana Omo Oodua , the umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, has stated that the pro-Yoruba Nation’s rally scheduled to hold in Lagos State on Saturday will hold as planned.   The group made this declaration on Friday through a statement.   Mr Maxwell Adeleye, the spokesman for the group, issued the statement, under the […]

The Department of State Services late on Thursday confirmed it raided the residence of Sunday  Igboho, the leader of the movement for Yoruba Nation agitation, in the early hours of the day.   The DSS made the confirmation as it paraded 12 of Sunday Igboho’s followers and another person, who it said were being profiled. […]

… gives 3% of oil firms’ expenditure for host communities   The Senate on Thursday passed the Petroleum Industry Bill with a provision for the use of 30 percent of oil and gas profits of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited to fund oil exploration activities in frontier basins.   The Bill as passed also […]