The Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu has inaugurated the security outfit codenamed: ‘Operation Amotekun’ in his domain. Speaking during the inauguration of the security agency...
The Oyo State government led by Governor Seyi Makinde has approved the lump sum of N60 million (N59,783, 437.50) as grant for the take-off of the...
An Osun State Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo has sentenced a 45-year-old man, Jonathan Ukonwe to 30 days imprisonment for deliberate failure to wear a face...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has declared that the silence of Muslims in Yoruba states must not be mistaken for the approval of secessionist moves for...
The state governments in the Southwest geopolitical zone said they are working towards harmonizing the operation of the its security networks, named Amotekun in the various...
Operatives of the Amotekun Corps on Saturday arrested two young men for allegedly stealing female panties at the Kajola Ajaba area of Osun State. The two...
Ten more illegal Chinese miners have been arrested in Osun State. They were arrested alongside a Ghanaian for the illicit act by men of Amotekun corps...
14 Northern youths hidden inside a space bus used in transporting food stuff have been intercepted and turned back by the Amotekun Corps in Osun State...
The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, said Sunday the bill establishing the Amotekun Corps in the state would be signed into law very...
The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, said on Sunday the South West Security outfit codenamed Amotekun corps would become operational by the end of this month....
The South East Governors Forum has revealed to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that the region has its own version of Amotekun. The chairman of the group...
Femi Fani-Kayode has applauded the South-South Governors Forum over the move to set up a regional security outfit for the region. Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of...
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, on Wednesday signed the state Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Amotekun Corp, Bill 2020 into law. The governor, who signed...
The Senator representing Taraba North, Emmanuel Bwacha, on Wednesday called for the replication of the southwest security outfit, Amotekun across communities in the country. Bwacha, who...
The Ogun State House of Assembly has passed a bill for the establishment of the Ogun State Security Network and Amotekun Corps on Tuesday. The state...
The Ogun State House of Assembly has revealed when the the bill for the South West security outfit codenamed: ‘Operation Amotekun’ which has caused much uproar...
A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has frowned at the demands by Miyetti Allah for its members to be recruited into Amotekun. The leadership of the...
As I said in a column in June 2019, security is everybody’s business. No individual, group, institution or organisation is nugatory in matters of security. All...
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Oyo State chapter, on Monday called for the inclusion of its members in the proposed Amotekun initiative...
The Chairman of the Conference of Speakers in South West, Bamidele Oloyelogun, said on Sunday that public hearing on the regional security network, Amotekun, would take...
Lagos State House of Assembly said on Thursday it has received an Executive Bill on the South West security outfit, Amotekun from the state government and...
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Sunday suggested compulsory psychiatric test for the operatives of Ekiti State Security Network Agency, Amotekun. The Ekiti State House of...
The Ekiti State House of Assembly, on Friday, passed the bill for the establishment of the state Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps into law. The...
Governors of the Southwest states and the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, have finally agreed on the recruitment, training and operation of the Western Nigeria...
The bill for the creation of Ekiti State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps passed through first and second readings at the State House of Assembly...
The Ogun State Government on Wednesday approved the proposal for the creation of the South West Security Network, Amotekun, in the state. The approval, according to...
The Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, said on Monday the bill on the South West security outfit, Amotekun, would be signed across the six states in...
An elder statesman, Ben Nwabueze has said that the restructuring of Nigeria remained inevitable regardless of any effort to stop it. He also expressed his support...
Well before the Yorùbá people and their leaders sprang the surprise of their Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Àmòtékùn, one has been living with it in...
President Muhammadu Buhari and others in position of authority have been urged to wake up and do more over the growing insecurity in Nigeria. The Catholic...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with the Chairman of the South West Governors Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The...
I hope it would not amount to ‘Hate Speech’ to make some confessions, especially, with a particular reference to Nigeria’s sociopolitical landscape. First and foremost, let’s...
The Are Ona kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, on Friday warned against opposition to the South West security outfit, Amotekun. Adams, who spoke at a South-West...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Thursday disclosed the concerns of the Inspector General of Police Muhammed Adamu over the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN), Codenamed...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, said on Wednesday that the South East governors would emulate their South West counterparts by establishing a regional security outfit similar...
The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi has told Yoruba stakeholders what to do with the new South West security outfit codenamed: ‘Operation Amotekun’. In...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday met with the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, over the South-West security outfit, Operation Amotekun, which has divided opinion...
The issue of Amotekun, the local security outfit recently set up by South-West governors, has landed at the National Assembly. This followed the directive by the...
Amotekun, the new security outfit set up by South-West governors has been described as an elusive way to establish a Christian dominated state police in the...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has described the director of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Professor Ishaq Akintola as a “traitor and a Judas”. The MURIC director...
“You look so downcast. Everything okay? Cheer up, man. This one that you are looking as if a trailer just crushed your legs.” “I won’t deceive...
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, declared on Monday the Southwest geopolitical zone has no plans to secede from Nigeria, saying the establishment of the regional...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has advised Governors of the South Western State not to allow the new security outfit codenamed ‘Operation Amotekun’ tilt towards any...
The Senior Pastor of Citadel Global Community Church (formerly Latter Rain Assembly), Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday, said that the launch of the Western Nigeria Security...
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, said on Friday the Southwest security outfit, Amotekun, is prepared to work with the Nigerian police and other security agencies to...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN) has been accused of unduly overheating the polity, and putting the nation...
The Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari cannot dictate how leaders of the South West region should protect its people, so says pan-Yoruba...
The Federal Government and the governors of the six southwest states on Thursday agreed on the operational modality of the newly formed regional security outfit, Amotekun...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Thursday insisted that the Southwest security outfit, Operation Amotekun, is illegal and unknown...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday met behind closed -doors with the six South West Governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting started immediately after...
