A socio-cultural group of Yagba people in Okunland, Kogi State, Apapo Omo Yagba (AOY), has converged on Mopa, headquarters of Mopamuro Local Council, where leaders and stakeholders declared a state of emergency on insecurity, road infrastructure decadence and youth unemployment in the region. 
  
The meeting, which was held under the aegis of “Yagba Unity Summit 2025,” emphasised the importance of peace and unity as the bedrock of sustainable development and prosperity of Yagbaland.
  
A statement by the AOY summit media sub-committee noted that although Yagba people are “traditionally united,” unity advocacies could not be overemphasised. 
  
The statement read in part: “The Yagba Unity Summit, just as the theme implies, is mainly to foster unity for peace, understanding, and cooperation among Yagba people. When peace and unity are achieved, then we will be able to look into other critical areas that are of interest to the Yagba people, including our prosperity as a community.”

The summit will enable us to develop strategies for solving problems of insecurity, youth unemployment, and infrastructural under-development that affect us as a people.
  
 “With youth unemployment on the rise, we considered skills and capacity development. In other words, develop our youths on how to create jobs and businesses that run on our land, as well as preservation of our cultures and traditions to enhance community building.”
  
The group, the statement stated, is saddled with the responsibility to, among others, strengthen the bond of unity among the Yagba people.