Tag: Sunday Igboho

Two Killed as Yoruba Nation Agitators, Police Clash In Lagos

Gbenga Adeoti

Two men have been reported dead in Ojota area of Lagos State following a clash between Yoruba Nation agitators and operatives of the Lagos State Police Command. It was learnt that the Yoruba Nation agitators had gathered for a rally in the area without obtaining a permit from the police. This was said to have led to the deployment of police operatives to the Ojota area. An eyewitness tild Platforms Africa how it happened. As members of the group gathered, some allegedly attacked a vehicle bearing the logo of the…

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Igboho’s Hope of Leaving Beninoise Prison This Year Uncertain

Wonuola Olujobi

“We have no idea of who Sunday Igboho is and what is happening to him’ – ECOWAS Court   The hope by Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, to be set free from prison in Repubkic of Benin before the end of 2022 is uncertain. Platforms Africa reports that the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, which Igboho and his supporters are banking on, has said that it has not received any matter relating to the trial of Yoruba Nation agitator. The embattled agitator had said that…

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Igboho, the Fly, by Oladeinde Olawoyin

Oladeinde Olawoyin

He wanted to fly, but he eventually became a fly. Sunday Igboho sneaked into Cotonou with a secret plan to fly to Germany, but, accidentally, he landed on the most sensitive part of Nigeria’s genitals. What do our elders say about a fly that perches on the scrotum? Caution. In July, weeks after he was declared wanted by Nigeria’s secret police, Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Sunday Igboho was arrested by the Beninese police while trying to travel to Germany, and then transferred to the Cotonou Criminal Brigade. He has since remained…

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Obasanjo in Benin Republic, seeks soft landing for Sunday Igboho – Report

Aoko Benjamin

“No, he went to Benin Republic on condolences visit to his old-time friend, Nicephore Soglo, who recently lost his wife – Roseline Soglo,” associate tells Platforms  Africa   Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was in Benin Republic in the first week of August, 2021, a report by TheCable has shown. Top sources in the diplomatic circle were quoted by TheCable to have confirmed that the former president travelled to Zanzibar, an island in Tanzania, on August 1 and rerouted to the Francophone country. Media aide to the African leader, Kehinde Akinyemi, could not…

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Sunday Igboho and allegory of Asantehene Golden Stool, by Festus ADEDAYO

Festus ADEDAYO

Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa was just a mother and farmer who spiced her vocation with being an intellectual, politician, and human rights activist. Living in a confederate Gold Coast, now Ghana, riven by a civil war of 1883 to 1888, the moment the British exiled Asantewaa’s brother and the King of Asante Prempeh 1 to Seychelles in 1896, a fertile ground was laid for a deadly rebellion against British rule in Ashanti land. Frederick Hogston, Governor-General of the Gold Coast, hastened the rebellion. By obstinately demanding for the Golden…

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Southwest Govs working behind the scenes, Igboho not abandoned— Sanwo-Olu

Gbenga Adeoti

The Governor of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has dismissed the insinuation that leaders of the South West, including Governors, had abandoned arrested Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho. Platforms Africa repors that Igboho, declared wanted by the Nigerian Secret Service (DSS), is fighting extradition plot from Republic of Benin where he was hunted down and arrested. Sanwo-Olu spoke on the development after casting his votes in the local council election held in Lagos State on Saturday.   READ ALSO: FAKE NEWS ALERT: Igboho ‘not yet released…

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Court releases Igboho’s wife, remands YorubaAgitator in Benin Republic cell

Aoko Benjamin

Here are details of how Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Benin Republic and immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai (retd.), was pushing for the extradition of Igboho to the DSS headquarters in Abuja   The hearing of a case against the Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, lasted for more than six hours on Thursday at Cour De’appal De Cotonou, Benin Republic. Igboho, who was arrested at Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou on Monday night, is being tried for immigration-related offences. READ ALSO: DSS…

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FAKE NEWS ALERT: Igboho ‘not yet released from custody

Wonuola Olujobi

’ Yoruba secessionists’ leader, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, has not been released from custody in Benin Republic. Wale Adeniran, one of the conveners of Ilana Omo Oodua International, a Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, confirmed this on Tuesday evening. Platforms Africa reports that Igboho was arrested by security operatives in Benin Republic on Monday, while on his way to Germany, and that there were plans to repatriate him to Nigeria.   READ ALSO: DSS Declares Sunday Igboho, 12 Others Wanted, Parades Guns + LIST, PHOTOS BREAKING: Yoruba Secessionists’ leader, Sunday…

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Nigeria’s Yoruba Warlord, Sunday Igboho’s Ibadan Mansion Razed + PHOTOs

Gbenga Adeoti

Multi-million Naira mansion belonging to a warLord in Southwest Nigeria, Sunday Igboho, has been reportedly razed by yet to be identified men. The midnight fire, which on Tuesday gutted some parts of the house of a popular Yoruba rights activist, was reportedly noticed to have started around 3am in the building located in the Soka area of Oyo State. Other reports have it that the source of the fire was yet unknown but it was gathered that fire fighters from the Oyo State Fire Service arrived the scene a few…

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How Tinubu met Sunday Igboho + His Lies, Betrayals, by Babafemi Ojudu

Babafemi Ojudu

  In this article originally entitled; “The Sunday Igboho I Knew,” President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, Babafemi Ojudu, reveals details of a meeting between the National Leader of Nigeria’s ruling party, Bola Tinubu, and political war lord, Sunday Igboho. He uneaths Igboho’s betrayal of trust reposed in him by allies and his many lies.   It was in 2009. The Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin ordered a rerun in a number of polling units in the election between Segun Oni of PDP and Dr Kayode Fayemi of ACN. Oni had in…

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