…Sanwo-Olu hosts colleagues, food security, zonal integration, SWDC, security top agenda The six South-West governors arrived Lagos for a crucial zonal meeting on Thursday, February 13, at the Governor’s Office, Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, to discuss growth and development of the region. The South-West Governors Forum meeting hosted by its Chairman and Lagos State Governor, […]
BY STEPHEN GBADAMOSI Some leaders of the South-West geopolitical zone have engaged two of the presidential candidates for the February 25th election. The presidential candidates were drilled over their plans to rule Nigeria from May 2023. The event, organised in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, by the South-West Development Stakeholders Forum, featured two presidential candidates; […]
…Demands donor discretion for war against killers and kidnappers By Felix Oboagwina A Yoruba self-determination group has warned indigenes of the South-West to avoid violent ethnic clashes between them and their Fulani guests, saying, it had unearthed plans by renegade politicians to drive the region into Rwanda-style genocide. In addition, the Apappo O’odua Koya (AOKOYA) […]
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 […]
The South-West Governors on Thursdsay said that the Western Nigeria Security Network, codenamed ‘Amotekun’ would only operate as state-based community policing outfit and not as regional police. Ondo State Governor and Chairman of South-West Governors’ Forum, Rotimi Akerodolu, said this after a Stakeholders’ Meeting on Community Policing held in Lagos. The meeting, held behind closed […]
…Says Police stretched to the limits …’Local policing not an effort to hijack role of federal police or compete with FG’ As controversy over the legality of ‘Operation Amotekun’, the security outfit set up by governors of the South West rages, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has thrown his weight behind the decentralisation of policing […]
Ibadan – The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has called on personnel of the Western Nigeria Security Network (Amotekun) not to betray the region on the ideals behind setting up the security outfit. Ogunwusi stated this on Thursday in Ibadan during the launching of Amotekun by the governors of the South West region. Amotekun […]
Governors in the South West Zone on Thursday in Ibadan flagged-off the operations of the Western Nigeria Security Network (Amotekun), stressing that it would complement the mainstream security agencies in the country. Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti and Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo were present at the event. Anambra south senatorial […]
… says anybody going against initiative is an enemy of the Yoruba land Ahead of today’s inauguration of the South West security outfit, ‘Operation Amotekun’ in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams has expressed confidence that the launch of outfit will put an end to criminality in the […]
In an apparently step towards regional development of the country, the Senate on Wednesday moved to establish the South West Development Commission. The Bill entitled, “South West Development Commission (Establishment, etc) Bill, 2018 (SB. 718),” was read for the first time at plenary presided over by the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki. The bill […]
It was a gathering of political heavyweight in the pro-democracy cycle in Yoruba land, as chieftains of Afenifere and other top leaders in the South West gathered to deliberate on the political future of the South West and the nation. Yoruba elders and leaders, including a leader of pan- Yoruba socio- political group, Afenifere, Chief […]
…Group pledges to give President 90% of Ondo votes The Minister for Power, Works and Housing and former governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, has said that the people of South-West Nigeria has more to gain by re-electing President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election. Fashola, who was in Lagos on Tuesday […]
The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams has appealed to governors in the South West of the country and all monarchs in the region to urgently intervene and halt an attempt to desecrate their customs and tradition by some Yoruba who he referred to as people of ‘shady characters’, living outside […]
A Group, Federation of Buhari Support Group (FoBSG) has emphasized that some governors of the South West and North Central are working against the second term bid of President Muhammadu Buhari. The group led by its leaders, Alhaji Ibrahim Sikiru, Coordinator, and Comrade Gbenga Bojuwomi, Publicity Secretary was at the All Progressives Congress (APC) national […]
The South West zone of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is billed to hold a mega rally on May 5, in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State. The rally, according to a communique issued at the end of zonal meeting of the Extended Working Committee of the South West PDP, held in Abeokuta, on Wednesday, is […]
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Tuesday said that he washed dead bodies as a youth to pay his tuition fees while schooling abroad, the Governor said this at a South-West Youths Regional Summit in Osogbo. The governor, while advising the youth to have a positive mindset toward hard work, said he spent eight […]
The Aare Ona Kakanfo Designate, Otunba Gani Adams on Tuesday paid a courtesy visit to the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode at the Lagos House in Alausa Ikeja, where he commended his role in the political and economic integration of the South West Region. Adams, who said he was in Lagos to pay homage […]
A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the South-West, Chief Pegba Otemolu, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to nullify the elections of the party’s National Treasurer and the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party. While Aribisala Adewale emerged as the National Treasurer, Diran Odeyemi won the Deputy National Publicity […]
Former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George has said that only the South West leadership of the (PDP) led by Chief Makanjuola Ogundipe remain the authentic and legally recognised PDP leadership in the region and any attempt to sideline his group would nullify the forthcoming December 9 national convention […]
Some farmers in the South-West part of the country on Tuesday decried the delay in starting of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Anchor Borrowers Scheme in the region. The farmers told newsmen in Lagos that the inability of the scheme to begin in the zone was militating against food production. They said that their […]