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25Oct By dthataNo Comments

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Police Recruit OPC To Guard Stations

A day or two ago, a video trending on several WhatsApp platforms, and said to be from Ughelli Area Command, A-Division, Delta State, showed some police officers and men running and singing solidarity song at the same time. Momentarily, a voice-over broke in, on the tape that had since gone viral. “The police are protesting,” it announced. “Stop the killing of police. Stop burning police stations. You have killed our people enough. The police are human beings. We are tired. We are ready to kill those hoodlums now. They are trying to burn the station but we will overpower them and send them back. We will kill them. We will wait for them. Yes. Enough is enough. Stop killing police. Stop burning police stations.” Apparently, speaking to his fellow policemen, the voice ordered: “Every...

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11Jun By BobbyNo Comments

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June 12: Nigeria Must be Restructured to Federating Units – Gani Adams Explodes

To free Nigerians from “bondage”, Nigeria must be restructured into federating units. This is according to the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, in a statement sent to DAILY POST on Thursday in commemoration of the June 12, 1993, anniversary. He expressed joy that part of the dreams of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), has been realized with the official naming of June 12 as the Democracy Day. Adams, however, regretted that despite the sacrifices of the activists and pro-democracy groups, democracy is yet to take its root in Nigeria. He stated that Nigeria can only get it right with true federalism, pointing out that the only way out of the political logjam is to let the federating states develop at their own pace. Adams noted that when federating units are ...

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17Mar By dthataNo Comments

Crime

Fulani Herdsmen Attack OPC Member In Ondo (Graphic Photo)

A member of Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Sola Oguntade was reportedly attacked by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Araromi area of Oba-Ile in Akure North area of Ondo State. He was attacked at Owode/Araromi axis along airport road on last week Friday night while he was working with his motorcycle. The victim is a commercial motorcyclist. Speaking with newsmen in Akure, a member of OPC in Akure North, Mr Tosin Omotayo said Oguntade was flagged down by two Fulani men opposite area command office. Omotayo said while Oguntade wanted to drop them at the Osi junction, he requested for their fares. ”As he stopped to drop the herdsmen, and requested for payment, three others came out from the bush and attacked him He said they shot him severally but when the bullet could not en...

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5Jan By dthataNo Comments

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Man Tricks Widow Into Sexual Affair, Rapes Her Teenage Daughters

When a Lagos-based auto mechanic, Monsuru Adesiyan a.k.a. Oba Idan told Olanike Ali, a widow, that he could help her avert another calamity barely one month after her husband died, the 39-year-old widow had no inkling of the sacrilegious sexual desire he harboured. The 35-year-old subsequently lured the widow into a sexual affair and then violated her two teenage daughters on the pretext that the only remedy to a looming spiritual attack on the family was for him to take the girls to bed and use a white cloth to cleanse their private parts for a propitiation at a deity’s groove. The widow, in her ignorance, forced her reluctant daughters, aged 13 and 19, to sleep with Adesiyan, telling them that they only had to do it for a few days. But trouble began when Adesiyan continued to e...

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16Oct By dthataNo Comments

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‘I Used Ransom From My Victims To Sponsor My Wife’s Education – Kidnapper

Suspected Kidnapper arrested on Tuesday, 15th October by the Otunba Gani Adams -led Oodua people’s congress. The suspected kidnapper is identified as Taofeek Lawal, said he hailed from Osogbo, Osun State. He also confessed that he used the ransom he gets from the kidnapping to sponsor his wife’s education in the higher institutions in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Lawal also confessed that his targets are children between the ages of 4 and 6, and he collects N100,000 for ransom of each child. According to him, he has other 15 men that work with the politicians and town leaders and they call him whenever his assistance was needed. “I have built two houses, a mosque, and a church”, he added. Lawal also revealed his parents are aware of what he does. The suspect further said that he...

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30Aug By dthataNo Comments

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OPC May Join Partisan Politics Soon, Says Gani Adams

After 25 years of existence, National Coordinator Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, said the socio-cultural group may have to spread its tentacles to partisan politics. The move, according to him, is geared towards liberating the Yoruba nation from the shackles of poverty, oppression and other injustice that has been her lot over the last years. Adams, who recalled how OPC started with nine members at Palm Avenue in Mushin in 1994, supposedly to liberate the Yoruba nation and restore the mandate of late business mogul cum philanthropist Moshood Kashimawo Abiola who won the 1993 election adjudged freest and fairest in the country’s history, lamented that that struggle has achieved little so far despite that it claimed over 2,500 martyrs. Adams, who is the 15th Aa...

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13Jul By dthataNo Comments

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Stop Herdsmen Attack On Yoruba – OPC Tells Buhari

The Oodua People’s Congress, OPC (Reformed), has joined numerous others in the South-West to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of utmost priority, find immediate and permanent solution to the incessant harassment, kidnapping and killing of the people of the region by Fulani herdsmen who, it said, had penetrated the geopolitical zone. The president of the group, Ambassador Dare Adesope, made the call at a news conference in Lagos, on Thursday. According to Adesope, who was represented by the Lagos State coordinator of the group and its secretary-general, Messrs Samson Balogun and Sufian Ogundimu, it is disturbing that Fulani herdsmen have invaded Yorubaland, perpetrating all forms of evil, including kidnapping and killing of our people, especially in Osun, Oyo, Ek...

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17Jun By dthataNo Comments

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South-West Governors Invite Army, Police, OPC To Security Summit

Governors of states in the South-West have reached out to the army, police and other security agencies on the need to redouble their efforts to stop atrocities being perpetrated by armed herdsmen and other criminals in the region. The Commissioner for Information in Ekiti State, Mr Muyiwa Olumilua, told one of our correspondents on Saturday that Governor Kayode Fayemi had reached out to the police and other security agencies in the state on the issue. The Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, has also told the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Yusuf Buratai, on the need to assist in flushing out kidnappers from the state. The Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, said governors in the region in conjunction with all stakeholders would hold a security meeting on the rampaging ar...

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15Jun By dthataNo Comments

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OPC Warns Kidnappers, Herdsmen In South-West

Kidnappers and herdsmen abducting people in some parts of the South-West have been warned to stop their nefarious activities or risk incurring the wrath of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC. Giving the warning in a statement issued in Lagos, the President, Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Aare Prince Osibote warned kidnappers and herdsmen abducting innocent Nigerians to stop their criminal activities in the South-West or relocate elsewhere. According to Osibote who succeeded late Dr. Fredrick Faseun as OPC national leader: ‘’Enough is enough. Yoruba are peace loving and hospitable. We welcome everybody with open arms, but OPC will not allow any individual or group to make the South-West unsafe or turn Yorubaland into a den of criminals. Time is up for these criminals abducting people....

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3Mar By dthataNo Comments

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OPC Warns IPOB Against Attack On Yoruba Territory

The Oodua People’s Congress has warned the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra against attacking any Yoruba territory based on the alleged attack on Igbo in Lagos State after the presidential and National Assembly polls. The President of OPC, Rasaq Arogundade, gave the warning in a statement made available to SUNDAY PUNCH in Lagos. Arogundade’s statement was in reaction to an earlier statement by the Publicity Secretary of the IPOB, Emma Powerful, which claimed that Igbo residents living in Lagos State were attacked during the last Presidential and National Assembly elections and were prevented from voting for the candidates of their choice. The IPOB publicity secretary alleged that the attack might have been orchestrated by some Fulani people against the Igbo who he said had been vi...

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3Dec By BobbyNo Comments

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Fasehun was a Patriotic Nigerian, Says Saraki

Bukola Saraki The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday described the late founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr. Frederick Fasehun, as a patriotic Nigerian who served his country meritoriously during his lifetime. Saraki in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in Abuja, said Fasehun was a man who transcended childhood limitation of late enrolment into school, became a medical practitioner of repute and joined in the struggle to enthrone democracy in the country. According to him, Fasehun served the Yoruba nation in particular and the country in general through his cultural renaissance movement – the OPC and political struggle, respectively. Saraki said the late OPC leader was one of the people who deserved to be called the heroes of...

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16Nov By BobbyNo Comments

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Whole World is Disappointed in Nigeria, Says OPC Leader

Frederick Fasehun The grand leader of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), a Yoruba nationalist organisation, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has decried the current state of the country, saying the whole world is disappointed in Nigeria. Fasehun stated this thursday in Lagos in an interview with journalists on the sidelines of the youth conference organised by the Frederick Isiotan Fasehun Foundation (FIFF) which was held to sensitise the youths on the 2019 elections. The elder statesman, who painted a gloomy picture of the steady fall in all indices of the country’s development, pointed out that the situation had led to Nigerians fleeing the country in search of better life. Fasehun also added his voice in the call for restructuring of the country, warning that failure to do so, the c...

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27Jun By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments

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3 Arrested As Police Bust OPC Torture Shrine Under Opebi Bridge In Lagos

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, has ordered the destruction of a shrine located under the Opebi link bridge in Ikeja, Lagos, allegedly belonging to suspected members of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC). Edgal, who led detectives to the shrine yesterday, said that the operators of the shrine carry out trial by ordeal on those arrested. According to him, going by the items found in the shrine, some of the victims were tortured to force them to own up to a crime they were being tried for. He said that three persons were arrested for their alleged involvement in the activities around the shrine, while three POS machines allegedly being used to extort money from victims were recovered. Aside from the POS machines, other items found at the shrine included mobile t...

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11Apr By ZIHONo Comments

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Governor Amosun Vows To Demolish Cultists Buildings

The Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has vowed to demolish housing members of any cult group causing mayhem in any part of the state, following the bloody clash that broke out between members of a cult group and officials of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) in which about six persons were killed and several others injured on Sunday evening and monday morning in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State. The governor disclosed that he was disturbed by the bloody clash which also claimed the life of a police Inspector that was among those police officers deployed in the ancient town in the wake of the mayhem. Amosun stated this at the African drum festival 2018 world press conference on Tuesday evening, shortly after returning from an on-the-spot-assessment tour of the troubled town. H...

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30Jan By ZIHONo Comments

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Court Acquits APC Members Over Death Of Governor Fayose’s Associate

The Ekiti State High Court on Monday discharged and acquitted the Chairman of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) in Ekiti State, Adeniyi Adedipe, and six others of murder after the prosecution presented contradictory evidences during trial. Others freed by the court include Adebayo Aderiye, Sola Durodola, Kayode Ajayi, Oso Farotimi, Sola Adenijo and Rotimi Olanbiwonnu, who are also members of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). They were standing trial for the murder of former Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Omolafe Aderiye. Mr. Aderiye, a close associate of Governor Ayodele Fayose, was killed in Ijigbo area of Ado-Ekiti on September 25, 2014, but the accused persons had remained in detention since then. The judge, Lekan Ogunmoye, in the ...

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19Jan By raymonNo Comments

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Fulani Herdsmen: OPC Kicks Against Cattle Colonies In South West

The National President, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), New Era, Comrade Razak Arogundade, has said that the group would resist any attempt by the Federal Government to establish ‘cattle colonies,’ in South-Western states. Arogundade while reacting to the proposed cattle colonies in a statement obtained by DAILY POST on Friday, condemned government’s inability to curtail the excesses of Fulani herdsmen whose continued atrocities and killing of innocent people go unchecked. He, however, declared that the generality of Yoruba men and women would resist any attempt to cede a portion of their lands to herdsmen in the name of cattle colonies. Arodundade said, “In as much as we believe in one Nigeria; we will not accept any plan by the Federal Government of Nigeria to establish ‘cattle co...

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15Jan By raymonNo Comments

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Herdsmen Attacks: A Critical Perspective By Baba Aye*

Six communities in the Logo and Guma Local Government Areas of Benue state were attacked on January 1 by herdsmen armed with automatic rifles. Not less than 73 people were killed. Subsequently, there have been similar attacks in Kaduna, Taraba, Adamawa and Ondo states within the first two weeks of the year. The response of the federal government has been lukewarm. The need to tackle this rising menace of deadly conflict cannot be overemphasized. Increasing desertification as a result of climate change has contributed significantly to pastoralists incursion on farmlands of communities in the middle-belt and further south, as they seek pasture for the cattle they herd. Attempts at curbing these incursions and the consequent clashes include the anti-open grazing law passed by the Benue state...

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12Jan By raymonNo Comments

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Buhari To Gani Adams: Use Aare Ona Kakanfo Title For Nigeria’s Unity

President Muhammadu Buhari warmly congratulates Gani Adams, Leader of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, on his investiture as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo, January 13, 2018. President Buhari charges Mr. Adams to use the new position to pursue worthy goals of security, peace and national unity. The president commends the Alaafin of Oyo, Lamidi Adeyemi 111, on the appointment of a new Aare Ona Kakanfo, who will assist him in the arduous task of leading the illustrious Yoruba people. Mr. Buhari urges the new Kakanfo to bring quintessential courage, wisdom and astuteness to bear on his new office, for a more secured life for the weak, vulnerable and voiceless in the country. The president prays that the almighty God will grant the Aare Ona Kakanfo a favourable reign.

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10Jan By raymonNo Comments

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Use $1Bn Security Loan To Fight Killer Herdsmen, OPC Warns Buhari

Dr. Frederick Fasehun, President of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the $1 billion security loan the government is canvassing for would be employed in fighting killer Fulani herdsmen. He also asked the President to relinquish the Petroleum Ministry, as well as unbundle the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing and hand the resultant establishments over to three professional ministers. Speaking in Lagos at a Press Conference, themed “STATE OF THE NATION 2018,” the OPC Founder said the first duty of government was to provide security, a task he said President Buhari had woefully failed to discharge, especially in relation to killings by Fulani herdsmen and Fulani militia in what, it said, appeared to be a case of organised ethnic cl...

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10Jan By raymonNo Comments

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Fulani Herdsmen: OPC Warns Buhari

Frederick Fasehun, President of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari over the persistent killings perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen across the country. Fasehun warned Buhari to take steps in curtailing the herdsmen because, “nobody has a monopoly of violence; and in the face of threats to their very survival, people will eventually resort to self-help.” The OPC President noted that should Nigerians resort to self-help, such, “move can tear this country apart and turn Nigeria into a free-for-all killing field.” Speaking in Lagos, the OPC President called on Buhari to ensure that the $1 billion security loan the government is canvassing for would be employed in fighting killer Fulani herdsmen. The OPC founder said the first duty of government was t...

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2Jan By ZIHONo Comments

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2017: How Badoo Killings Sent Shock Waves Across Lagos

Of all the criminal activities that dominated news headlines in Lagos State in 2017, the serial ritual killings in Ikorodu area, also known as “Badoo Killings”, was perhaps the most talked about among Lagosians last year. What generated further fear among residents was the peculiar modus operandi of Badoo and its seemingly intractable and invisible nature. As the killings went on for months, the affected communities and state security apparatus appeared clueless until it was nip in the bud toward the end of the year. It all started after a suspect, described by some residents of Ikorodu area as a “serial rapist and ritual killer”, was arrested at Ibeshe. His name was given simply as “Badoo”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that after every attack, the perpetrators would ...

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24Nov By ZIHONo Comments

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We Need To Show More Patriotism – Femi Adesina

The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, says patriotic zeal of citizens is very important to national development. Adesina spoke in Lagos on Thursday, at the 2nd anniversary of Global Patriot Newspaper, an online newspaper. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme of the lecture, which also featured awards, was “Patriotism, Untapped Potentials and National Development”. “We need to love our country even when things are tough. We do not have any other country to call our own,” Adesina said. He pointed out that no country developed without the patriotic zeal of citizens, noting that patriotism is also an ingredient for nationalism. The special adviser said the Buhari administration was taking practical steps at ...

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22Oct By raymonNo Comments

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OPC Faction Rejects Gani Adams As Aree Ona Kakanfo

A faction of the Oodua Peoples Congress, otherwise known as New Era Oodua Peoples Congress, has rejected the conferment of the Are Ona Kakanfo title on Gani Adams by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi. The group said the announcement of Gani as the next generalissimo of Yorubaland has relegated the importance of the title. The National Public Relations Officer of the group, Adesina Akinpelu told Punch that Gani does not merit the title as he has not done anything tangible in Yorubaland for such honour. He said, “What Alaafin did has never been done in Yoruba land. No Alaafin in the old Oyo Empire ever installed two Are Ona Kakanfo during his reign. So Oba Adeyemi has made history. Oba Adeyemi installed M. K. O. Abiola, who brought us to the battle for the emancipation of Yorub...

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19Oct By ZIHONo Comments

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I Chose Gani Adams As Are Ona Kakanfo On Merit – Oba Lamidi Adeyemi

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, on Wednesday said the National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Gani Adams, was chosen as the new Are Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland after considering his antecedents as a Yorubaman who had exhibited passion for defending his people, their culture and tradition. The Alaafin on Sunday issued a letter of appointment to the OPC coordinator as the Yoruba generalissimo, thereby succeeding the late MKO Abiola, who was the last person to occupy the position. While reacting to the criticisms of the choice of Adams, the monarch explained that Adams might not possess the wealth and philanthropic strength of the late Abiola, but he was courageous and bold whenever he stepped forward to defend the Yoruba race. He said, “The choice of Adams was well...

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26Aug By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments

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OPC Warns Over Eviction Threat To Yoruba In Niger Delta

A pan-Yoruba group, the Oodua People’s Congress, has called on leaders and stakeholders in the southern part of the country to caution the Niger Delta Agitators over its threat of eviction of the Yoruba people resident in the region.The OPC warned that the backlash of such move might not be palatable.The NDA was widely reported in the media earlier in the week to have threatened to evict the Yoruba from the Niger Delta region.Calling for caution over the threat, the OPC in a statement issued on Friday, said it “could deflate the robust relationship between the South-West and South-South.”In a statement by its National Coordinator, Otunba Gani Adams, the OPC said the threat issued by the NDA’s leader, John Duku, was the second of such in recent time, hence a call to southern leaders andstak...

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20Aug By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments

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Hate Speeches, Part Of Clamour For Restructuring – Gani Adams

The national coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Chief Gani Adams, has attributed the different hate speeches across the country to the yearnings of Nigerians for the urgent restructuring of the country. This was just as a traditional ruler, the Alabiran of Abiran, Oba Kayode Akinyemi, commended the OPC chief for his group’s efforts against Badoo cult group in Ikorodu area of Lagos. Adams and the traditional ruler, while speaking during the installation of Adams as the Tayese of Amuwo Odofin by Oba Isaac Olayemi, also called for improved security in the country. Adams, in his acceptance speech, said that he accepted the title after he considered the integrity of the traditional ruler. He also used the occasion to renew his call for the restructuring of the country...

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13Aug By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments

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It’s Time To Restructure Nigeria – OPC

The National Coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress, Otunba Gani Adams, says it’s time to restructure Nigeria to curb hate speeches currently being experienced in the country. Adams on Sunday said that hate speeches indicated that all was not well with the country politically. “With the present hate speeches, it is an indication that all is not well with us politically and we need to do something fast about it before it degenerates into crisis. “I have been hearing from the government that there are lots of hate speeches in the country from different groups, even from the political players. “I believe that under democracy, the government must learn the civil way of addressing such anormally because of freedom of speech as entrenched in the constitution. “Also, if anyone says ...

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2Jul By Czar Owolabi Marcus2 Comments

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Police Raid Badoo’ Hideouts, Arrest Over 100

Men of the Lagos State Police Command in conjunction with the Oodua People’s Congress-OPC, and Local vigilante groups have raided the hideouts of notorious cultist group “Badoo”, arresting over one hundred suspected members, we have been told. The source revealed that the arrests are connected to the recent closed-door meeting held between top Police authorities in Lagos, the OPC leader- Gani Adams, and other local vigilante groups recently. 

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13Jun By Czar Owolabi Marcus2 Comments

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Quit Notice: No Arrest Shows Nigerians Are Not Equal – Uranta

Niger Delta activist, Tony Uranta, has condemned the ultimatum by Arewa youths that Igbos should vacate the region within three months. He lamented that lack of arrests one week after the threat was issued had confirmed that some Nigerians were bigger than others. Uranta said this yesterday during the commemoration of the June 12 election anniversary which was organised by the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) in Lagos. His words “I was concerned when I heard the threat issued by northerners against Igbo to leave the North because it shows that it is the lack of knowledge that makes us do things that would hurt us. “The fact that the Federal Government is dragging its feet in arresting those who issued the threat is an indication that some people are better than others and it does n...

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3Jun By Czar Owolabi Marcus1 Comment

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Yorubas Now Want Oduduwa, And Not Nigeria- Gani Adams

National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams, has given reasons why the Yorubas are now desperate to leave Nigeria. Adams noted that Nigeria is no longer a country where anyone would want to call his. He noted that restructuring is no longer in the minds of Yoruba youths as they now support self determination on the basis of having their own nation. He told the Sun, “If you sample the opinion of the youths and others in Yoruba land, they are even tired of restructuring. “They are more in support of self-determination. They want self-determination on the basis of having their own nation. “It is something that is very clear to everybody. The situation is worrisome because in Nigeria, some people say let us try and solve the problem but others ...

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19Apr By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments

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200-Year-Old Crocodile Showcased At Ero Okeliwo Festival In Ogun

The indigenes of Ero- Okeliwo Community, Ijebu Ife Ogun State, on Saturday, gathered people from all walks of life to their town for the celebration of Ero – Okeliwo Festival 2017. In what was branded as ‘Celebration of Our Ancestors”, the indigenes of the community who trooped out in their multitude, happily and in high mood expressed their pride as put succinctly by the Baale elect, Chief Adeleke Oyesanya as he said, “we are happy today as we celebrate with our vigour and might, with our resources injected, the rich cultural – tourism assets bequeathed to us by our fore fathers. We are happy to celebrate and flaunt these inestimable heritages and will not be tired doing this every year. “The spirit of unity of purpose which exists in the community was exhibited when Reverend Deyi Aiye...

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24Mar By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments

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Ile-Ife Clash: Arrest Hausa Suspects In 48 Hours – OPC

A pan-Yoruba group, Oodua People’s Congress, has given the Federal Government and the Nigeria Police Force 48 hours to arrest the Fulani/Hausa persons involved in the crisis in Ile-Ife, Osun State, which resulted in the death of about 46 persons. The OPC gave the warning in a statement by its founder, Dr. Fredrick Fasehun, on Thursday. It said, “We hereby call on the Federal Government to intervene within the next 48 hours to ensure that justice is institutionalised and no side is provoked to defend justice according to its whims and caprices. Various communities have Abraham as their father. A word is enough for the wise.” The group said it was unfortunate that 20 Yoruba persons, including a monarch, were arrested and paraded by the police while not a single Hausa/Fulani bell...

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16Mar By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments

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Ife Clash: Afenifere, OPC Kick Against One-sided Arrest

THE pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere and the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, have kicked against what they call one-sided arrest of some Ile Ife residents by security operatives over the communal clash in the area recently. In a statement, Afenifere’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Yinka Odumakin said though it was concerned that lives were lost in the clash but faulted security operatives for carrying out a one-sided arrest of some innocent residents. In a statement entitled: ‘Ife Crisis:The Hounding After and Yoruba Stand’, Afenifere said: “We are miffed that security operatives section ally mobilized have moved to Ife after the incident to carry out one-sided mass arrests of Yoruba people who are mostly notables and could never have participated in any riot. As at th...

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23Feb By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments

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OPC And Military To Tackle Militants In Lagos

The National Coordinator of Oodua Peoples' Congress (OPC) Otunba Gani Adam has strengthened a pact to support the Military personnel in the protection of Nigerians from terrorizing militants. Sequel to reported incessant attacks by a crop of militants who have been terrorizing and maiming the people in some communities in the southwest of Nigeria. This became known Tuesday during a visit of Otunba (Dr) Gani Adams, the National Coordinator of OPC to boost the morale of his members who joined hands with the military personnel to combat the militants and kidnappers who have invaded Abule-Ado-Soba and Ijedodo creeks for some months back. “We are taking no more chances. I think our tolerance has been mistaken for cowardice and it is time to act. Now we are ready to join hands with the rel...

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14Feb By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments

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Man Rapes 70-year-old London Returnee To Death

A 70-year-old woman, identified simply as Mrs. Egunjobi, a London returnee, has allegedly been raped to death by a 33-year-old Dare Garuba. The incident occurred in Egunjobi’s shop at Mowe in Ofada-Mokolokin Local Council Development Area of Ogun State. Witnesses told our correspondent yesterday that the woman had taken two bottles of Alomo gin and became intoxicated. When she started misbehaving, the suspect reportedly offered to lead her home so that she would not be injured. However, when Garuba led Egunjobi into her shop, he decided to take advantage of her. The incident, which occurred about 11p.m. on Sunday, forced some of the traders in the area to shut down their shops yesterday when the news of her death filtered into town. It was learnt that the suspect was the onl...

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30Jan By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments

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“People Will Die Before I Am Extradited” – Kashamu

The latest ruling of a United States court which ruled that Senator Buruji Kashamu must face drug charges has prompted the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA) to push for the arrest of the federal lawmaker, saying it has been “emboldened and strengthened” by the ruling. Meanwhile Kashamu, on Saturday, said that he believes that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government would not oblige the request by the US Government for his extradition. Kashamu, who described as illegal the move by the US to extradite him to face alleged drug charges, said: “There is no extradition that can be brought against me again. The only thing they can do is to watch and catch me on the road; take me to the airport or Cotonou or throw me inside a vessel and take me through the Atlantic Ocean. B...

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