By Femi Alabi Onikeku Umar Muhammad Labdo. Remember him? The professor of Islamic Political Thought at Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano who once ruffled ethnic feathers by proclaiming in a facebook post that Benue State belongs to the Fulani by right of conquest…He has stirred the waters again in an exclusive interview with The Daily […]
Akure – The Ondo State Security Network Agency, Operation Amotekun, has announced the commencement of its recruitment. Chief Adetunji Olu-Adeleye, Amotekun Corps Commandant in the state, who made this known on Tuesday in Akure, said the recruitment form would attract no charges. The Amotekun is a security outfit based in all the six South West […]
Retired Col. Olayinka Olayanju, Oyo State Commandant of Amotekun Security Outfit, says the much expected face of Amotekun will be rolled out very soon. Olayanju told newsmen on Wednesday in Ibadan after Amotekun Stakeholders Forum held at the Western Hall of Oyo State Government Secretariat. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the forum, with […]
Three men, on Monday, appeared before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court for alleged impersonation. The defendants, Iyiola Sunday, 19, Akintayo Oke, 38, and Oluwaniyi Gbenga, 35, are facing a charge of impersonation. The prosecutor, Insp Caleb Leranmo, told the court that the defendants and others at large, committed the offence on May 26 at about […]
Men of Amotekun Corps in Osun State have arrested two suspects, Friday and Toyib for allegedly stealing female underwear for ritual purposes. The suspects were said to have been nabbed by Amotekun corps after they had bugled a house at Kajola Ajaba in Ila Local Government Area of the state. They had already succeeded in […]
Lagos Lawmakers at Plenary on Monday has passed into Law “A Bill for a Law to amend Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps Agency Law, 2019”. READ ALSO: Kaduna quarantines 50 inter-state travel ban violators The Bill which was earlier passed into law early in the year was amended after observations were raised by the Executive […]
Lagos state house of assembly on Monday at plenary passed the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps Agency Law (amendment) 2019 bill. It made provision for the creation of an Amotekun Corps into Law. In the amendments, Section 20 (1), which subjects the appointment of the Lagos Amotekun Corps Commander to the confirmation of the House, […]
Lagos State Government on Sunday said Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu would soon sign into law a bill to establish the Amotekun Corps recently passed by the state House of Assembly. The state Deputy Governor, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, gave the assurance in an interview in Lagos. Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo are some of the states in the South-West […]
Governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi has signed the Ekiti state Security Network Agency Bill, otherwise known as the ‘Amotekun’ corps into law. At the event attended by traditional rulers, members of Vigilante Group of Nigeria, hunters and the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Gov. Fayemi warned criminals to steer clear of Ekiti boasting that ‘Amotekun’ corps will them wherever […]
Gov. Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun on Friday signed the State’s Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps Establishment Bill into law. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the State House of Assembly had on March 3 passed the bill after a public hearing seeking stakeholders’ contributions. Speaking at the forum, Oyetola said that assenting […]
Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Tuesday signed the State Security Network Agency (Amotekun) Bill, 2020, into law. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that governors in the South West Zone under the chairmanship of Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State had on Jan. 9, in Ibadan, launched the Amotekun initiative. READ ALSO: The […]
Tongues have been waging on why the South-East Governors Forum reneged on its initial plan to launch a regional security outfit in Igboland, similar to the Amotekun of the South-West. But the people should ponder no more: the sudden U-turn has everything to do with sheer selfishness. Security crisis has become an existential threat in […]
President of the Yoruba World Congress and a frontline Yoruba Leader, Prof. Banji Akintoye, has commended the State Houses of Assembly of states in the South West for their dutiful and expeditious passage of the law establishing Amotekun. The Yoruba leader in a statement at the Yoruba World Congress Headquarters in Lagos, said ” I […]
Osogbo – Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun has described the South-West Security Network, codenamed ‘Operation Amotekun’, as a child of necessity. He said that with the emergence of Amotekun, the South-West zone had become a safe haven. The governor said this during while receiving the leadership of Yoruba Unity Forum who were on a courtesy […]
Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Wednesday signed the Ondo State Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Amotekun Corp, Bill 2020 into law. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the corp, which was coordinated by Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN), was launched in Ibadan in January by the six South West […]
Ogun state Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has called on traditional rulers in the south-west to support the Southwest Security Network known as ‘Amotekun’ for adequate protection of lives and property in the region. Gov. Abiodun made the call in Ijebu-Ode during the investiture of Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona as the new chairman of the […]
Chief Whip of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Rotimi Abiru has reiterated the commitment of the state legislature to ensuring that the Bill on “Amotekun” comes to reality in the state to complement the efforts of the police in securing the people of the South West region. The lawmaker acknowledged the lack of […]
The Aare Ona Kankanfo of Yoruba Land, Iba Gani Adams has said that South West security outfit, codenamed ‘Amotekun’ would attract more investors into the zone and improve the nation’s economy. Adams, spoke with newsmen after A-Day Stakeholders’ Forum on “A Bill for a Law to Amend the Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Corps Agency Law, […]
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, on Monday, declared that Amotekun, as a security outfit, in the state and the South West has come to stay. Speaking at a public hearing on a bill to establish Amotekun in Lagos State, Obasa said the outfit had become important for the […]
The Ogun state government on Monday said it would ensure that the South-West Security Network, popularly known as ‘Operation Amotekun’ is not politicized when its bill is eventually passed into law. Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Gbolahan Adeniran, stated this during a stakeholders’ meeting on the ‘Amotekun’ bill, held at the state House of Assembly […]