Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political organisation, has dissociated itself from the call by agitators for exit of Yoruba from Nigeria, describing the call as undesirable, self-serving and unnecessary. Afenifere in a press statement on Tuesday issued by the organisation’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi maintained that the problems bedeviling Yorubaland and Nigeria as a whole “are not merely because multi-ethnic groups make up the country, rather, the country’s multifarious problems can be traced...

A High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State, has stopped the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from infringing on the fundamental human rights of former Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello. In a two hour judgment delivered on Wednesday, at the High Court 4 and presided over by Hon. Justice I.A Jamil, in suit no HCL/68/M/2020, the court restrained the EFCC from arresting, detaining and prosecuting the applicant except as authorised by the Court....

120 women from the six south west states to get the sum of N60million from The Renewed Hope Initiative, a social intervention programme of the wife of the President, Mrs. Oluremi Tunubu. The First Lady, who disclosed this on Tuesday at the launch of the Renewed Hope Initiative Women Agricultural Support Programme for the south west and flag off of the 2024 Ogun State Planting Season, held at the Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, also said...