Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, and former Lagos State governor and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, are engaged in a war of words...
Members of the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Tuesday held a closed-door meeting with former president Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun State, over the 2019 elections. The...
Elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai says restructuring was conceived by pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, to destabilise the country. He said this at a public lecture organised by...
The pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Tuesday said that it is not it’s practice to endorse any aspirant vying for political position. Leader of the...
The camp of the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere appears divided over the 2019 Presidential election, as a leader of the group, Senator Ayo Fasanmi has thrown...
Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has thrown its weight behind former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, describing him as the greatest champion of restructuring from the North....
The pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has stated that the recent statement credited to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on the issue of restructuring, is proof of the...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, says Nigeria is in the “midst of an epidemic of sycophancy”. Dogara noted that for Nigeria to...
Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum, a socio-cultural group, has cautioned northern and southern croups in the country over inciting statements. Akin Malaolu, the group’s secretary general, on...
The influential Middle Belt Forum (MBF), a group of prominent political leaders in the middle belt states, may have decided to have a shot at the...
Afenifere chieftain, Senator Ayo Fasanmi, yesterday urged leaders of the socio-political organisation to avoid former President Olusegunn Obasanjo. He noted that the former President’s agenda was...
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday paid a visit to the leaders of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, at the residence of the leader of the...
Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has described the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, as spokesman for Boko Haram insurgents and called for his immediate...
Following allegations by a former Chief of Army Staff and Defence Minister Theophilus Danjuma on the Nigerian Army, Afenifere has called for the intervention of the...
The stage is now set for the Handshake Across The Niger summit scheduled to hold on Thursday, January 11, 2018, in Enugu State. In a statement...
Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere has challenged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over its failure to invite the former Secretary to Government of the Federation...
Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, has stated in reaction to President Muhammadu Buhari’s 57th independence anniversary speech that the president was mixing up the clamour for...
The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, and its northern counterpart, the Arewa Consultative Forum, on Sunday, disagreed on President Muhammadu Buhari’s Independence Day’s broadcast. Buhari had, in...
Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against the transfer of civil duties to the military. It warned the current administration not to...
Impressed by its publicly expressed position against Operation Python Dance II in the South-East, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has commended Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural...
By Bayo Oluwasanmi… These are heady days for Yoruba unity. The Yoruba Summit held last week in Ibadan represents a milestone in the way forward to...
The Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, on Sunday echoed the criticism of the Federal Government by Ohanaeze Ndigbo over the planned re-arrest of the leader of the...
Following backlash over comments made in a speech he delivered at the National Security Summit organised last week by the Department of State Services, Acting President...
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has been criticised by the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, for allegedly dismissing the position of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo that Nigeria is...
Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has warned that Nigeria’s situation has got to a terminal level. According to the group, the only thing that could save it...
By Gimba Kakanda… Last night, a friend asked me to explain my aversion to the idea of secession, thinking it was the fear, as amplified in...
The pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo have condemned Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso’s opposition to the call for the arrest of northern youths, who said the...
Signs that the Nigerian state may cave in have become too ominous to ignore. The growing demand by South-East groups to have a separate state, Biafra,...
The Afenifere has raised concerns over the quit notice the northern youths gave to Igbo resident in their region and said that neither Yoruba people or...
The position of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), on why the call for restructuring will not work at...
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has reacted to criticisms trailing arrests made by the police in the wake of the communal clash in Ile-Ife, Osun...
Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has said it will assemble over 100 lawyers to defend the 20 indigenes of Ile-Ife, who are being held for their alleged...
There are strong indications that the leaderships of the prominent sociocultural groups, Afenifere, Ohanaeze and others in the South are forging a common political alliance to...
Just like Governor Nasir El-Rufai, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Kaduna State chapter, has attributed the killings in southern Kaduna on reprisal attacks...
The Pan-Yoruba socio-political Organisation, Afenifere, has urged the Federal Government to publicise the employers of the 50,000 ghost workers the government claimed it discovered and retrench...
In an interview with Saturday Sun in Lagos, a notable Yoruba leader and founder, Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Fredrick Fasehun, described alleged marginalization of the Yoruba in...
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has berated the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, for rejecting calls for the restructuring the nation. According to the group,...
The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has condemned the call for the country to break up, saying the statement credited to Prof. Ango Abdullahi is unpatriotic. The...
Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, and Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the socio-political organisation of the Igbo people, have backed Governor Ayodele Fayose grazing bill. But the Arewa Consultative...
The pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere says it is disappointed at the position expressed by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo over the debate on restructuring Nigeria. The group...
The South East socio-cultural organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and the pan-Yoruba socio-political body, Afenifere, on Wednesday disagreed with President Muhammadu Buhari on his non-negotiability stand of...
By Reuben Abati… No one should be surprised by the loud and widespread support that has attended the latest call by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar seems to have finally struck a chord with some regional socio-cultural groups with his call for the restructuring of the country’s...
By Churchill Obinna Okonkwo… With the amalgamation of Northern and Southern protectorate of Nigeria in 1914, a new entity with strangers in an unfamiliar society...
By Femi Fani-Kayode…Last week I wrote an essay titled ‘The Road To Kigali’ which was widely published. The callous response of the northern governors...
The Yoruba Socio- Political organisation, Afenifere on Tuesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to tackle Nigeria’s ailing economy, and be cautious of not making the anti-corruption...
The General Secretary of Afenifere, a Yoruba social cultural group, Chief Sehinde Arogbofa, has faulted Arewa leaders over claims that the report of the National Conference...
As the debate of whether or not the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari should continue the subsidy on petroleum products, Nigerians from different walks of life,...
