Yorubas

Man Who Tweeted ‘Let’s Kill All The Igbos’ Apprehended by Police

The police in Osun State have arrested an individual who made an inflammatory anti-Igbo statement on social media. The suspect, identified as Kehinde Adekusibe, was apprehended on Thursday by police operatives in the state. The arrest was made following a Twitter post in which the suspect expressed hateful sentiments towards the Igbo ethnic group. According... Read More

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Here’s all we’ve gathered from the Igbo and Yoruba trend on Twitter

by Toluwanimi Onakoya The word “Igbos” trended on Twitter today but for a variety of reasons. The microblogging site was flooded with discussions on various topics concerning the South Eastern tribe. A viral thread kicked off the buzz when a detailed account of a wife’s marriage experience was presented to the public. The thread told... Read More

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October 4, 2017

Opinion: I stopped addressing my older cousins by uncle or aunty and this happened

Tonye Altraide Many Africans refer to anyone older than them as an uncle or aunty. This is meant to indicate a term of respect and to symbolize certain condescension towards older people. You will find this culture, which is most especially rampant in Western Nigeria, also prevalent in many other parts of the continent.... Read More

culture, nigeria, opinion, respect, Yorubas

September 20, 2017

Yorubas, Hausas no longer need Igbos to win elections – Okorocha

Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha has said other ethnic groups no longer need the help of the Igbos to win elections. He said this during an interactive session with journalists in Owerri, the state capital. What he said: Igbos have to change their strategy to remain relevant in Nigerian politics. “Today, Hausa have realised they can... Read More

elections, hausas, igbos, Rochas Okorocha, Yorubas

September 16, 2017

Opinion: The Federal Government and IPOB’s terrorist threat

by Dele Awogbeoba For the last two years, any constant listener of Radio Biafra, when hosted by Nnamdi Kanu, would have discerned three very critical themes behind his broadcasts. The first is the hate and derision directed against a group he terms Hausa-Fulani of the North and the Yoruba of the Western parts... Read More

igbos, nigeria, Nnamdi Kanu, south east, terrorism, Yorubas

September 13, 2017

Opinion: The Yoruba political advance and Afenifere’s sabotage

by Dele Awogbeoba The Yoruba have come a long way since the days of Goodluck Jonathan. Goodluck Jonathan’s government was without a doubt Nigeria’s most anti-Yoruba government ever surpassing even Abacha’s government in giving effect to a most egregious anti Yoruba agenda. Afenifere, that group of self appointed leaders with no political followership... Read More

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September 9, 2017

PANDEF commends N’Delta militants for withdrawing quit notice to northerners, Yorubas

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) on Friday applauded the Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators for withdrawing the quit notice issued to Northerners and Yoruba living in the Niger Delta region. The militants also withdrew the threat to destroy oil and gas facilities. In a statement issued by its Coordinating Secretary, Dr. Alfred Mulade, the... Read More

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September 5, 2017

We are not part of it | Igbos in Southwest react to Nnamdi Kanu’s statement

The Igbo residing in all various parts of Yorubaland yesterday, disassociated themselves from the statement credited to the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who reportedly referred to Yorubas as fools. ‎Ndigbo, who said report was not true, and if indeed it was, the Southwest Ndigbo are not in support of it.... Read More

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August 22, 2017

Opinion: Igbos, do not mistake Yoruba kindness for weakness. We’re not weak!

by Bayo Oluwasanmi Churchill Okonkwo’s article “Ndigbo Will Conquer And Rule In Oduduwa Republic” published August 7, 2017, in SaharaReporters, is a figment of imagination as useless as dried-up springs or as mist blown away by the wind. His braggings about Ndigbo’s taking over in Oduduwa Republic is an empty foolish boasting with an... Read More

Ethnic politics, IPOB, MASSOB, Ndigbo, nigeria, Oduduwa Republic, opinion, Yorubas

August 12, 2017

N’Delta youth condemn, dissociate self from quit notice given to Northerners, Yorubas

Niger Delta Youth under the auspices of Niger Delta Youth Congress (NDYC) Friday, condemned and disassociated itself from the quit notice by a group called the Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators (CNDA), to Hausas and Yorubas to leave the region before October 1, 2017. This was contained in a statement signed by the National Coordinator, NDYC, Comrade... Read More

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“Who is this imbecile?” “Wet Oshogbo weed talking” | TwitterNG reacts to Nnamdi Kanu’s wannabe

Is madness in the air? We heard Lauretta Onochie fire off balderdash recently. Then this fellow comes along with his grammar problems and cruel intentions. Watch: .@metpoliceuk pls find attached video of UK based @adeyinkagradson's hate speech and threat of contaminating waters with biological weapon pic.twitter.com/ngl0avyzLF — Káyọ̀dé Ògúndámisí 🇳🇬 (@ogundamisi) August 8, 2017 Forgive... Read More

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November 9, 2016

Just In: RRS rescues abandoned baby in Lagos ethnic clash

The Lagos state Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on Wednesday said it rescued an abandoned baby during an ethnic clash in Ajah, a suburb in the state. The baby has since been united with parents. According to the Squad’s Twitter account the clash between Yorubas and Eegun has left several houses destroyed. RRS intervening in Yoruba... Read More

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Remember the PDP chieftain that said Tinubu will destroy himself? – APC has addressed his matter

by Kolapo Olapoju Earlier today, chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ebenezer Babatope, stated that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, does not deserve to be called the leader of Yorubas. Babatope had in an interview with Punch Newspapers, alluded that Tinubu will eventually destroy himself. Springing to the defence on... Read More

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Demola Rewaju: NBA elections – How the Yorubas got it wrong (Y! Superblogger)

by Demola Rewaju The mistakes of the core Southwest (Egbe Amofin) lawyers in this case is clear: they failed to present a consensus candidate thereby dividing their own votes into three, confusing their loyalists in other zones who would prefer to go for a neutral Alegeh or Erhabor than be caught in the crossfire of... Read More

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Tunde Fagbenle: The Northerner and the rest of us

by Tunde Fagbenle Has anyone wondered, for example, how and why the powerful media machine of an Atiku Abubakar remains solid and perennial? How and why Sultan Abubakar III (and those before him) commands unflinching devotion? A disclosure, which may not be much of one: I am (also) a ‘northerner’ – as readers of my... Read More

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February 18, 2014

Opinion: Igbo leaders are responsible for the ill-treatment of the Igbos

by Fredrick Nwabufor The fact is a scrum of Igbo penny leaders feed fat on the emaciated condition of the Igbo in Nigeria. They claim to represent the Igbo, but what they do is to gulp down mouth watering sums of valuable paper in exchange for Igbo’s rights farting stained coins of greed. The Igbo... Read More

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January 26, 2014

Tunde Fagbenle: In visionary leadership, Obafemi Awolowo was above his peers

by Tunde Fagbenle Amongst the majority of the Yoruba, then and now, the image of Awo looms large; he is the most politically accomplished and revered Yoruba, perhaps second only to their mythical progenitor, Oduduwa himself. I was in the primary school when the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, more popularly known as AWO, was premier... Read More

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January 5, 2014

Simon Kolawole: Rethinking the mistake of 1914

by Simon Kolawole But what was the “Mistake of 1914”? Was it the fact or the act of amalgamation? Those who blame the “fact of amalgamation” say there should never have been a Nigeria, that Nigeria is a fraud, that the various ethnic groups had nothing in common and that Nigeria is just a colonial... Read More

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December 16, 2013

Opinion: Why Nigeria is still the best country around

by Udofia Joseph People boast of the beauty of Paris, but I say Paris beauty cannot be compared to the streets of Abuja. They boast of the Himalayas, but that is because they have not been to great mountains in Jos. They boast of industrious Venice, but only because they have not been to Alaba... Read More

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December 1, 2013

Femi Fani-Kayode: Ojukwu betrayed Awolowo and the Yorubas, not the other way around

by Femi Fani-Kayode The greatest irony of all is that, generally speaking, the Igbo detest Awolowo so much and have done everything that is physically possible to malign and discredit him since 1967. Yet this was the man whose party went into an alliance with them at the most critical point in our history (between 1964 and 1966) and who wanted the Yoruba to work closely with them. In an interview with the Punch newspaper on 30th November 2013, Dr.... Read More

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October 3, 2013

Demola Rewaju: The truth about the Yorubas

by Demola Rewaju There is a Sango grove in Ile-Ife where the fiery god entered the earth. There is a Sango grove in Ekiti where the fiery god entered the earth. Elders in both places swear by the truth of their history. I grew up in a compound with six Igbo neighbour families but I... Read More

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October 2, 2013

Femi Fani-Kayode: Nigeria at 53 – A time to think

by Femi Fani-Kayode Other than the usual congratulations, platitudes, expressions of joy and offerings of thanks to God I believe that as we celebrate our nation’s 53rd independence anniversary it is time for us to bare our minds in a candid and frank manner and to really sit down and think. During her election campaign... Read More

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August 15, 2013

Opinion: Deportation of destitutes is lazy, but Fashola is not an Igbo hater

by Steve Nwosu I am not one of those who believe Lagos is a no-mans-land. It is insulting to the indigenes of Lagos to make such postulations. I have intentionally steered clear of the leave-township notice that the Lagos State Government recently served and executed on some Igbo residents of Anambra extraction, simply because there are so... Read More

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August 11, 2013

FFK will fail like others before him: A rejoinder to Femi Fani-Kayode’s ‘Lagos, the Igbos and the servants of truth’

by Sam Eleanya One thing is certain. FFK will fail. In this venture. To divide another generation of Nigerians the same way his generation was divided – and so has become a liability to their nation. Just like others before him with even greater convictions and motivations – did. Fail. (Before I sleep) I read Femi... Read More

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August 11, 2013

Opinion: The bitter truth about Femi Fani-Kayode

by Obi Nwakanma Lagos belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settles in it. I read with a lot of amusement the piece of clap-trap circulated through the Nigerian blogosphere last... Read More

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