Afenifere
23 Feb
The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, urged President Bola Tinubu, labour unions and other stakeholders to take some steps to avert the planned protest slated for next week over the economic downturn.
17 Feb
Afenifere , yesterday, stated the current economic crisis in the country started with former President Muhammadu Buhari’s government given its nonchalant stance and failed promises.
16 Feb
PAN-YORUBA socio-cultural and political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, lauded the National Assembly for contemplating to cut cost of governance and restructure the political system in Nigeria.
12 Feb
A female governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Funmilayo Adekojo, at the weekend, said that her intention to vie for the governorship seat of Ondo State was to change the narrative of governance in the state.
11 Feb
About 60 years ago, January 1964, the late popular actor/musician, Hubert Ogunde, in one of his records titled: Yoruba Ronu, Otitokoro, urged Yoruba people to think, and that the truth is bitter.
7 Feb
Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, yesterday, said that all the governors of the South-West states are united on the matter of security, saying that they are collaborating on the issue.
2 Feb
Afenifere chieftain in Kwara State, Wole Oke, has urged the Federal Government to halt the incessant killings of innocent Nigerians by bandits or risk the proliferation of ethnic militias across the country as an unauthorised defensive mechanism.
31 Jan
The Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), yesterday, lamented the imbroglio within the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, saying that it had tried five times to broker peace among the leaders but one of the factions was unyielding.
30 Jan
Oyo State Governor, ’Seyi Makinde, yesterday, chided a former Vice President and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 polls, Atiku Abubakar, for not reaching out to him despite the havoc wrecked by the explosion in the Bodija area of Ibadan on January 16, 2024.
29 Jan
A group of over 500 women organisations, activists, advocates, and practitioners, under the auspices of Womanifesto, has condemned the wave of insecurity in Nigeria.
28 Jan
The lingering face-off between the two nonagenarian leaders of the apex Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti and Pa Ayo Adebanjo...
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