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Punch Newspapers Sections Olufemi Olaniyi, Ibadan The people of Igangan community in Oyo State have expressed gratitude to Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Igboho for his his efforts towards liberating the community and the Ibarapa people from the insecurity created by criminal herdsmen. The community also lauded Governor Seyi Makinde, Inspector General of Police, Abubakar Adamu; and the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mrs Ngozi Onadeko. The Chairman Igangan Commun...

Oyo Crisis: Fulani Leaders Beg For Forgiveness, Pledges Peaceful Co-existence Recall that there was violence at Igangan on Friday when a popular Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, alongside his followers, stormed the Fulani settlement in the ancient town to eject Seriki Fulani, Salihu Abdukadir, and herdsmen accused of perpetrating crimes ranging from kidnappings, killings, rape to invasion of farmlands with their cattle. by SaharaReporters, New York Jan 25, 20...

Punch Newspapers Sections Olufemi Olaniyi and Wale Oyewale Residents of Igangan in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State on Sunday recounted their ordeals in the hands of Fulani herdsmen. The community leaders,  who spoke during a visit of the state government delegation to the town, stated that they had paid a total of N50m as ransoms for kidnappings carried out by herdsmen in the community. The community also presented to the delegation,  pictures and other evidence of ransoms paid to the herdsmen....

Jan 25, 2021 Representative of Governor Seyi Makinde, who is also his security adviser, CP Fatai Owoseni (retd) (left); Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko (middle) and the Olugbon of Orile Igbon, Oba Francis Alao, during a peace parley to address the violence rocking Igangan and Ibarapa land over rising waves of kidnapping and other crimes, at Igangan Town Hall, on Sunday, Jan 24, 2021. Share INDIGENES of Igangan community in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, on Sun...

Residents of Igangan community in Ibarapa North local government area of Oyo state have alleged payment of N50 million as ranson paid to herdmen over cases of kidnapping.

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Punch Newspapers Sections Wale Oyewale Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and traditional rulers in the state will visit Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government Area of the state today to deliberate on how to restore peace to Ibarapaland. The Deputy Chairman, Oyo State Council of Obas, Oba Francis Alao, who said this in an interview with one of our correspondents on Saturday, said the meeting was organised primarily to ensure that peace returne...

The IDA's convener, Mr Oladiran Oladokun, who said this in a statement on Saturday, said the people had been crying for freedom for a long time with no one to help.

Punch Newspapers Sections Olufemi Olaniyi, Ibadan One of the farmers attacked at Igangan in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State on Friday, Seun Isaiah,  has said Fulani herdsmen living in the community attacked him and three others in the presence of some policemen. Isaiah, who was reported to be one of the two persons who died following the attack allegedly carried out by herdsmen, survived the onslaught despite the injury inflicted on his head. He spoke on Saturday in a vid...

Residents lament cultists’ clashes, killings in Lagos A man, Monsuru Aderoju, has been kidnapped in Igangan area of Ibarapa a day after Mrs Sherifat Adisa, owner of Subawah Petroleum in the area, was gruesomely murdered after she was abducted by yet-to-be identified gunmen.   Oladokun Oladiran, convener of an advocacy group named Igangan Development Advocates, confirmed the latest incident to journalists yesterday.   Aderoju, a cassava dealer popularly known as Alhaji Monsuru, was trailed t...