Makinde speaks on insecurity in Oyo, condemns ethnic profiling
Mr Makinde said his administration is capable enough to deal with security challenges facing the state.
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Mr Makinde said his administration is capable enough to deal with security challenges facing the state.
Oyo State governor, Mr Seyi Makinde, has declared that his government will not relent until the criminals responsible for security breaches in Ibarapa,
Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 February 2021 Early in January, a torrent of bad news started emanating from the Ibarapa axis of Oyo State. The stories were about kidnapping, attacks by killer herdsmen and destruction of farmlands across Ibarapaland. Incidentally, those attacks were on the heels of the alarm earlier raised by Governor ‘Seyi Makinde when he declared in Saki, a key town in Oke Ogun axis of the state in December 2020, that some criminal elements were crossing the international borders into the forests around Oke-Ogun and Ibarapa. He said that the state would not allow c...
BBC News Published image copyrightSAIF In Nigeria, clashes between ethnic Fulanis and other groups have cost thousands of lives in the past decades and now a car salesman has emerged as a controversial national figure in this increasingly deadly conflict, as the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo reports. Hailed as a hero by his supporters, Sunday "Igboho" Adeyemo is seen as a dangerous rabble rouser by his opponents, accused of inciting ethnic hatred and killing. Once only well-known in his part of south-western Nigeria, he has now become one of the most talked about - and divisive - figures across the cou...
Share Early in January, a torrent of bad news started emanating from the Ibarapa axis of Oyo State. The stories were about kidnapping, attacks by killer-herdsmen and destructions of farmlands across Ibarapaland. Incidentally, those attacks were on the heels of the alarm earlier raised by Governor‘Seyi Makinde when he declared in Saki, a key town in Oke Ogun axis of the state in December 2020 that some criminal elements were crossing the international borders into the forests around Oke-Ogun and Ibarapa. He said that the state would not allow criminal elements seize hold of the state and ter...