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Akinwale Aboluwade Controversial Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho has denied a report published in The Nation Newspaper that he could ‘finish’ the Boko Haram fighters without government’s support describing the report as mischievous, an unfounded falsehood and a figment of the writer’s imagination. The activist, who is also widely called the ‘Igboho Oosa,’ in a reaction to the online report on Monday, expressed reservations on the penchant of...

The residents said the presence of Wakili Fulani in Ayete was a threat to residents. by SaharaReporters, New York Feb 08, 2021 Residents of Ayete, Igangan and Tapa in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State on Monday morning denied a statement credited to the Oyo State government that peace had returned to the area. The residents said the presence of Wakili Fulani in Ayete was a threat to residents. Seyi Makinde Wakili has been described as a notorious Fulani man wreaking havoc and...

Punch Newspapers Sections Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, in this interview conducted in Yoruba language by WALE OYEWALE , clears the air on his recent visit to Ogun State to drive out killer herders, the apprehension by his wife and children, just as he denied allegations of fundraiser and the burning of Seriki Fulani of Igangan’s property Some people have expressed the fear that your approach to the herdsmen crisis can lead to ethnic war. What do you fee...

Share On January 15, 2021, Mr. Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, a private but concerned Nigerian, responded to the S.O.S of the people of Igangan in Ibarapa North local government and other parts of Oke Ogun in Oyo State of Nigeria with a visit to the area. Sunday Igboho, being one of the worried indigenes of the area himself, was armed with the reports of many atrocities being committed daily against the people by the Fulani imperialists under the guise of herding cattle in th...

Punch Newspapers Sections Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe and Wale Oyewale A senior lawyer and former representative of the Oyo South Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Olufemi Lanlehin, has described Governor Seyi Makinde’s handling of the rising insecurity in the Ibarapa/Oke Ogun area of Oyo State as jaundiced. The former lawmaker said while the governor considered the right of the killer herders to live in any part of the country, he failed to respect the right of the host communi...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sunday Aborisade The Senator representing Ogun West Senatorial District, Tolu Odebiyi, has lamented the unfortunate attacks on innocent Nigerians by armed herdsmen and urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to address the nation on the issue. The senator told our correspondent on Saturday in Abuja that he would have moved his appeal as a motion on the floor of the Senate if the National Assembly was in session. He also urged influential Nigerians ...

From all indications, the failure of state provides the platform for the likes of Sunday Igboho, writes Shola Oyeyipo If not until recently, Chief Adeniyi Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho was little known in the South-west, but after he lent himself to protecting the Yoruba nation from the untamed invading killer herders terrorizing parts of Nigeria, he has become a household name. The people of the West are elated that in the absence of adequate protection by security agencies, one of their own is ta...

Punch Newspapers Sections WALE OYEWALE The Chief Press Secretary to the Oyo State Governor, Mr Taiwo Adisa, on Saturday explained why the governor, Mr Seyi Makinde, had yet to personally visit the Ibarapa and Oke Ogun areas of the state.  The areas have recently witnessed some crisis following the eviction order issued to Fulani residents by a Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho. Adisa said the governor would not jump the gun by altering the processes that must be followe...

Akinwale Aboluwade  Former representative of Oyo South Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Olufemi Lanlehin, said on Sunday that Governor Seyi Makinde’s manner of handling the rising insecurity in the Ibarapa/Oke Ogun axis of Oyo State was inept and jaundiced stating that while considering the right of the killer herders to live in any part of the country, he failed to respect the right of the host community to live full life devoid of intimidation, killings and deprivation...

Suspected herders at the weekend sacked farmers from their farmlands in Ibarapa and Oke Ogun axis of Oyo state.