Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has urged the Yoruba to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid in other to have a chance at the presidency come 2023. Osinbajo made the remark when
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The Yoruba origins of the name Moses (not the Man Moses) – Reno
First of all, there is no name like Moses, just like there is no name like Jesus. Both those names are made up names that the European translators of the Hebrew and Aramaic Scriptures transliterated and substituted for the actual names that were in Scripture which are Moshe (Moses) and Yehoshua or Yeshu’a (Jesus).
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2019: Yoruba youths set agenda for Atiku
As political parties strategise for 2019 general election, the Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide has called on Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to prioritise his programme if he emerged president in 2019.
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Yoruba, tribalism and the tragedy of a new Nigeria
2019 presidency: What Yoruba leaders told Obasanjo about Buhari before he forgave Atiku – Adebanjo
A chieftain of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has opened up on the role played by Yoruba leaders in ensuring the reconciliation between former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Adebanjo was among notable Nigerians who accompanied Atiku to the reconciliatory meeting on Thursday. According to Adebanjo, the apex Yoruba socio-cultural group, had […]
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Return Nigeria to regionalism, Yoruba group tells FG
A Pan- Yoruba socio-cultural group, Yoruba Koya Movement, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to revert to the regional system of government being operated before the coup d’état of 1966 describing the current 1999 Constitution as martial law in civilian garb.
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Ambode: Yoruba Forum declares support for Lagos governor, warns APC
The Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum says it stands with Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on his second term ambition. Ambode is going into Saturday’s primary and will be up against a strong contender, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The former commisioner has the backing of Mandate Movement, a group loyal to APC national leader, Bola Tinubu. He […]
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Yoruba needs unity to remain relevant in Nigeria –Bode George
Femi Makinde, Osogbo The former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has called on Yoruba sons and daughters to unite and shun selfish interests in order to remain a formidable and relevant part of Nigeria. George said this in Osogbo on Tuesday at the Grand Zonal Congress of the South-West […] …
2019: Obasanjo holds secret talks with Yoruba leaders in Lagos
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo, Saturday, held a closed door meeting with some Yoruba leaders including leaders of the socio-political organisation, Afenifere, to discuss ways of moving Yoruba land and the country forward.
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Senior Nigerian journalist faces backlash for calling Yoruba ‘sophisticated morons’
Ochereome Nnanna, chairman, editorial board of Vanguard Newspapers, has come under heated criticism over a veiled reference to people of the Yoruba ethnic group as “sophisticated morons”. Nnanna’s comment followed the
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