Ogun royal fathers stress on significance of Yoruba language
By Sola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: ROYAL fathers in Ogun State have resolved to revive Yoruba language to prevent it from going into extinction. They unanimously decided to take it as their utmost responsibility to ensure that the language of the large ethno-linguistic ethnic nation in Africa, who constitutes approximately 21 percent of Nigeria’s population, will be […]
Why I’m contesting for OPU National Coordinator, by Shodunke
By Olu AJAYI CANADA: DEFINITELY, Chief ‘Femi Shodunke is not new to community service. As if he knew what was ahead of him in Canada, the North American country which he migrated to seven years ago, Shodunke, who is the Baaroyin of Igbeinland, has cut his teeth in community affairs in Nigeria with his […]
Yoruba community to have Oba in Canada soon, says Oluwo of Iwo
By Femi SHODUNKE (Toronto) CANADA: YORUBA community in Canada may soon have an Oba (King) going by the proposed plan of the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi. Oba Akanbi, a Canadian citizen, who left Canada barely a year ago to become Oluwo, made this known while addressing members of the Yoruba Community […]
Yoruba group, YUF, lambasts APC, Buhari
NIGERIA: YORUBA Unity Forum (YUF), the umbrella forum for all Yorubas irrespective of political affiliation, has lambasted the All Progressive Congress (APC) and President Muhammadu Buhari over their stand on the recommendations of the 2014 national conference. The forum said that by their stance on the conference, APC and Buhari are not in line […]
Don’t distort history, Osoba blasts Obasanjo on Awolowo
NIGERIA: FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has incurred the wrath of his fellow kinsman, ex-Governor Olusegun Osoba over his comment on the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and few other Nigerians. Obasanjo was quoted by a national newspaper as saying in his book, My Watch that no individual, including Awolowo, could lay claim to being the […]
