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Omoleye Omoruyi August 13, 2017

OPC leader, Gani Adams says it’s time to restructure Nigeria

The National Coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams Sunday, has said restructuring is the solution to hate speeches spreading around the country. The OPC leader said this and highlighted…

Omoleye Omoruyi July 12, 2017

131 suspected “badoo boys”, cultists apprehended in Ikorodu

About 131 suspected members of badoo boys and cultists were Tuesday, reportedly arrested in Ikorodu, Lagos, by a joint security task force. The raid, Vanguard reports, was started Tuesday morning,…

Oludolapo Adelana March 24, 2017

Ile-Ife crisis: Why we arrested only Yoruba suspects – IGP

by Dolapo Adelana The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, on Friday said crime has no tribe nor identity. Idris said this while justifying the arrest of only suspects of Yoruba…

Azeez October 12, 2016

Judges arrest: Buhari is an unrepentant dictator – Fasehun

Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr. Frederick Fasehun on Wednesday said President Muhammadu Buhari is "an unrepetant dictator". Fasehun said this while speaking to journalist on the recent arrest…

Azeez July 21, 2016

Pipeline vandalism: OPC offers security assistance to FG

Leader of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Gani Adams has told the government, that the group is ready to assist in checking criminal activities, especially vandals of oil installations. Adams…

Kolapo Olapoju April 21, 2015

OPC gives South Africans 48 hours to stop xenophobic attacks, or else…

by Kolapo Olapoju The South African government has been given 48 hours by the Oodua Peoples Congress to stop the xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa or face repercussions.…

Ada Igboanugo April 8, 2015

We have given you a lot – This is what OPC seems to be saying to Igbos in Lagos

by Chinwe Okafor One would expect that we'd be solving a problem not aggravating it. But the leadership of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) probably thinks otherwise. In a statement released…

Kolapo Olapoju March 24, 2015

“Obasanjo begs court to let his books be sold” – 7 important things you didn’t read yesterday (but should have)

by Kolapo Olapoju 1. APC suffers 17,000 blows In recent time, the Peoples Democratic Party has lost thousands of members to the All Progressives Congress... and now, the tables…

Emmanuel Chidiogo March 23, 2015

Opinion: The sense and nonsense of Gani Adams

by Tunde Fagbenle …We have our own right, as a citizen of this country. We are not part of amnesty. We need not detain ourselves with the antecedents of…

January 16, 2014

Tragic: Cultists kill pregnant woman, student in Ogun

A pregnant woman and a student of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic were reportedly killed when youths suspected to be secret cult members unleashed an attack on the Onikolobo area of…

August 7, 2013

Opinion: How Asari-Dokubo became a ‘big man’

by Ebenezer Obadare ...although there is a notional forswearing of violence, this is strategically counterbalanced by frequent threats to ‘return to the creeks’, as seen in the example with which…

July 5, 2013

Phone theft: OPC tortures man to death right before his mother

by Rachel Ogbu The pan-Yoruba group, Oodua People’s Congress has been accused of torturing a man to death after he was arrested for stealing a BlackBerry phone and an undisclosed…

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