Not less than nine men suspected to be kidnappers, have been apprehended in Ogun State. The Ogun State Police Command said the suspects were “members of a notorious kidnap syndicate terrorising residents of Ogun State.” The command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the syndicate used to operate along the Abeokuta-Ayetoro road, where many residents had been […]
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The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), has said the Federal Government is playing (obvious) politics with Sowore’s detention. This was in a statement by it’s Publicity Secretary, Yinka Oguntimehin,, said since inception of the Buhari led administration, the number of Federal Government detainees were increasing by the day, adding that the situation is affecting the image […]
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The founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Federick Fasehun, is dead. The senior special adviser on media to Mr Fasehun, Adeoye Jolaosho, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He said the OPC Chieftain died at about 1a.m. Saturday at the intensive care unit of the Lagos State University Teaching […]
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The Police in Lagos State have arrested three suspected members of the O’odua Peoples Congress, OPC, and raided a shrine allegedly used to extort members of the public. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Imohimi Edgal, who led detectives on Tuesday to the shrine, ordered for its destruction. Edgal told newsmen at the scene […]
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The national coordinator of the O’odua Peoples Congress (OPC), Gani Adams, has been installed as 15th aare ona kakanfo of Yoruba land. Adams was installed on Saturday. His installation comes 19 years after the demise of Moshood Abiola, the 14th aare ona kakanfo. Before his installation, traditional rites were performed on Adams by Lamidi Adeyemi, […]
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Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has strongly warned the military not to deploy soldiers in the south-west because of the menace of the Badoo gang in Ogun and Lagos States. Sani Usman, army spokesman, had said the soldiers would tackle the menace of the gang. But speaking at the end of a meeting in Ondo, Yinka Odumakin, […]
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Mujahid Asari Dokubo, a former militant leader, as well as factional leaders of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Dr. Frederick Fasehun and Otunba Gani Adams, alongside other beneficiaries of the Pipeline Security and Surveillance contracts, have asked the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay their outstanding fees by the end of the month, or […]
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At least three persons were feared dead on Sunday at Agbamu in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State following a clash among members of the Oodua Peoples Congress. An eye witness said trouble erupted when some OPC members, who were allegedly expelled recently from the group, stormed St. Paul Anglican Primary School, Agbamu, where the […]
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