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Aadelakun@punchng.com There are at least two fundraising efforts ongoing for Sunday Igboho, now deemed a Yoruba freedom fighter. So far, one has g...

[FILES] Sunday Adeyemo (a.k.a. Sunday Igboho) (second left), addressing a press conference over his burnt house by arsonists in Ibadan… yesterday. PHOTO: NAJEEM RAHEEM “In this state and, of course, the riverine state of Nigeria, we must resist it. We must stop it. Every one of us must rise up. The armed forces are not neutral. They collude with the armed bandits that kill people, kill Nigerians; they facilitate their movement; they cover them. If you are depending on the armed forces to stop the killings, you will all die one by one. The ethnic cleansing must stop in T...

Vanguard News Edo group calls for regional security outfit in south south On Kindly Share This Story: A social-cultural organization, the HeartBeat Professionals Association, has called on the governors in the south-south region to set up realistic modalities urgently to address the recent hostilities across the region. The group made the appeal yesterday in a communique signed by its President Mr. Ikponmwosa Egharevba. The statement read “In view of the recent hostility across the South-South in relation to the herdsmen and farmers issue, it is now imminent for the 6 South-South governors...

Williams Babalola National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance, Olusegun Bamgbose, Esq., has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to relinquish power immediately as he has “led the country to slaughter slab.” Bamgbose, who himself is a presidential hopeful, made this demands while addressing a crowd of supporters in Ibadan, Oyo State saying that Buhari is no longer fit to be called a president. Bamgbose knocked Buhari for his “inability” to curb the menace of regional insecurity that gave rise to the likes of Yoruba activist, Sunday Igbo and Nnamdi Kanu’s Eastern Securi...

The Coalition of Civil Rights Group (CCRG) has challenged IPOB-affiliated Eastern Nigeria’s Rights and Intelligentsia Coalition (ENRIC) to back its claim that six soldiers of Igbo extraction were killed with facts. According to the coalition, the ENRIC has continued to feed the unsuspecting public ‘fake news’ without substantial evidence to back its case, thus provoking widespread ethnic strife across the country x The CCRG noted that ENRIC has failed to give the names of the soldiers from another ethnicity that were reportedly exonerated neither...