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Punch Newspapers Sections Gbenga Adeniji, Friday Olokor  and Olufemi Olaniyi The Coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress in Oyo State, Mr Rotimi Olumo, has said the police have arrested four members of the group, who were part of the team that arrested a Fulani warlord, Iskilu Wakili. A joint team, including the Oodua Peoples Congress, a vigilante group and others arrested the Fulani on Sunday. He was arrested on Sunday along with three of his gang members after an exchange of gunfire. Wa...

Gani Adams The National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, (OPC), Chief Gani Adams, has called on the Oyo State Police Command to fish out the killers of four men at Idiyan village, Igangan, Oyo State. The Oyo State Police Command confirmed that the four men were killed in the early morning of yesterday . This is coming barely 24 hours after members of OPC arrested a Fulani warlord, Iskilu Wakili, in the area. Adams, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, sai...

The four men were hacked to death around 2 am on Monday at the village. Two of the men killed were said to be members of the community police in the area. Adams, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, said the four men were killed in the most gruesome manner, adding that the audio and pictorial evidence at his disposal indicated that the killers had been terrorising the village and its environs. They have also collected over 800 million naira as ransom from their cap...

Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams has raised the alarm over the killing of four men by those believed to be Iskilu Wakili's men. Adams said

Adams expressed worry that the security situation in the South-West was becoming worrisome, maintaining that the situation could have been so worse if not for the efforts of the OPC.

Sodiq Oyeleke and Segun AdewoleA joint team of Ibarapa security operatives, including Oodua Peoples Congress, Vigilante, and other groups have ...

An OPC leader said the police told them to take Mr Wakili to a hospital and they refused

Share Adebayo Ojo was Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice during the administration of the late Governor Abiola Ajimobi. The chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) speaks to DARE ADEKANMBI on Governor Seyi Makinde and the security issue in Ibarapaland, APC registration and other matters.     YOU are one of the strongest critics of the administration of Governor Seyi Makinde. But you recently commended the governor in an article you wrote, saying he handled the security sit...

PDP disqualifies 41 chairmanship aspirants for LG polls in Oyo On Ola Ajayi – Ibadan As preparations for the conduct of local government election gather momentum in Oyo State, the Peoples Democratic Party screening committee has disqualified 41 chairmanship aspirants for the election. The 41 chairmanship aspirants, according to the committee, failed to fulfill some of the screening guidelines for the election. The disqualified aspirants spread across the five geopolitical zones of the state....

Share NIGERIA today is in a fierce battle with mean men of coarse manners. They are everywhere preaching peaceful coexistence and ‘love your neighbour’. They are our political leaders who talk with a robber’s liberty. These ‘troubles-of-Nigeria’ come in torrents and are in the form of ‘leadership’. And these demons beautifully conceal their true intentions like cold, sly mien of a snake. We are daily left to assume that our sanity is still intact as we lament our cruel fate as ‘...