A coalition of the first generation of Yoruba Diasporas across the World and their new generation counterparts have assured that the emergence of the nation is a task that must never go back, as a virile Yoruba Nation is a divine creation.
Abubakar Malami, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), has told a Federal High court in Abuja that former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, is not eligible to run for president in Nigeria.
Pa Ayo Adebanjo, the National Leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has said political leaders and governors of the South-West region are afraid of clamouring for restructuring because they are afraid of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has described the comments made against him by the acclaimed Yoruba warlord, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, as irresponsible.
Former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido was quoted last week as saying that Nigeria cannot break up because members of the elite are united in preserving their advantages over the masses irrespective of their differences of tribe and religion.
An analyst said Boko Haram started out as a terrorist group maiming and bombing banks and other public facilities, while southern agitators started by making efforts to engage the authorities.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said developments and happenings in the country at the moment do not show that Nigerians are preparing for the Kingdom of God. This is just as it has been revealed how his intervention helped to preserve the tomb of the Founder of the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, St Moses Orimolade, in Ojokoro area of Lagos during the construction of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.
In a leaked telephone conversation between Awulu and a former council boss in Katsina State, the bandit's commander admitted the group collected N30m from the state government.
A renowned Islamic scholar, Ahmed Muhammad Gumi has advised the federal and state governments to grant amnesty to repentant bandits, stating that there will be severe bloodshed and merciless killings if the administration and security agencies continue to fight the bandits on operation fire-for-fire.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo in a virtual interview with academic and historian Toyin Falola has revealed why he picked the late President Musa Yar’Adua as his successor despite knowing about his failing health.
The suggestion for married underage girls to have voting rights has been rejected by the senate committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu has weighed in on the herdsmen and farmers crises, asking why cows have become so important that they now form a topic for national discourse.
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) has asked the Federal Government to introduce a social support programme to alleviate the huge losses of livestock for herdsmen across the country.
Convener of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Paul Unongo, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the deployment of soldiers to protect northerners living in the SouthWest and other parts of the country so as to shield them from further attacks.
The Ooni of Ife, Oba(Ojaja 11) and Eselu of Iseluland, Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, were engaged in hot exchanges over herdsmen’s reported attacks in several villages in Ogun State.
The governor said the Presidency kept mum when herdsmen killed and maimed Nigerians but was swift to order the arrest of persons who resisted the criminal activities of the killer herdsmen.
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state has called for a ban on the movement of cattle from the north to the southern part of the country and the middle belt.