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Yoruba Nation struggles will not be collapsed for Tinubu’s ambition, we won’t be part of Nigeria in 2023 ―Prof. Akintoye (Video)

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Ilana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups being led by Prof. Banji Akintoye, has through the Prof. in a news conference, told the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and other Southwest All Progressives Congress leaders not to hurt the agitations for Yoruba freedom and that the Yoruba […]

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Prof Akintoye apologises to Yoruba victims of Trans-Atlantic slave trade to cleanse their curses

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Yoruba leader and Alana of Ilana Omo Oodua (Head of Yoruba Nation Self-Determination Struggle), Prof. Banji Akintoye, has tendered unreserved apology to the victims of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade in Yorubaland. Akintoye, who is a professor of History, said some of the victims of the slave trade placed a curse on the future generation of […]

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Prof. Akintoye accuses Nigerian govt of paying black foreigners $500 each to protest against NINAS at the UN

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Prof. Banji Akintoye, Chairman of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS), has accused the Nigerian Government of sponsoring a counter protest at the United Nations Headquaters on Friday, September 24. The emeritus Professor alleged that, to counter the “Million-Man Freedom March” which NINAS first staged on September 14 and 15, the Nigerian Government has […]

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We are set for the one million-man march at UN assembly ―Prof Akintoye, NINAS

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In a statement released on Monday, Chairman of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS), Emeritus Professor, Banji Akintoye, has said all is set for the million-man freedom march sheduled to hold at the United Nations Headquaters in New York, United States of America from 14th to 24th September, 2021. Akintoye said the protest is […]

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Terrorists now in Yorubaland, set to attack big churches, mosques, edifices ―Prof. Akintoye warns Govs

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Emeritus Professor and President General of Ilana Omo Oodua, Pa Banji Akintoye, has alerted governors in the Southwest of Nigeria that the entire region has already been surrounded by terrorists. Pa Akintoye, who is the leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups, informed the governors in a letter written to […]

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Restructuring is no longer the solution to Nigerian problems ―Prof Akintoye

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Emeritus Professor of History, Prof Banji Akintoye is the Chairman of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS), who also heads the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, speaks to Punch on sundry issues. With due credit given to the most circulated newspaper in Nigeria, we want to bring to our […]

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Self-determination is the only way to save the Yoruba nation ―Prof Akintoye

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Yoruba leader and President of Ilana Omo Oodua also known as Yoruba World Congress (YWC), Professor Banji Akintoye, has said only the pursuit and attainment of self-determination will save the Yoruba from being continually dragged down by Nigeria and ultimately from being destroyed by the persistent onslaught of Fulani herdsmen and militia terrorists. Professor Akintoye […]

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Sharing from the govt of Nigeria is not the destiny of great nations like the Igbo and Yoruba ―Prof Akintoye

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The leader of the Yoruba Global Movement known as Yoruba World Congress (YWC) or Ilana Omo Oodua, Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye, has urged the Yoruba and the Igbo people to put away rivalry and work together to achieve their ‘deserved destinies’ in the world. Prof Akintoye spoke on Friday at a webinar with the theme, […]

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We will get sovereign Yoruba nation without breaking Nigerian laws ―Prof. Akintoye

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President of the Yoruba World Congress (YWC), Prof. Banji Akintoye, said on Wednesday that the over 55 million Yoruba people in the Southwest of Nigeria would get freedom by having the sovereign Yoruba nation without breaking the laws of Nigeria or shedding blood. Prof. Akintoye stated this at the YWC House in Ibadan, the Oyo […]

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It makes no sense to put Amotekun under the incapable Nigerian Police –Prof Akintoye, YWC President

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Yoruba World Congress (YWC), an umbrella organisation for Yoruba nationals, has rejected the plans to place the Western Nigeria Security Outfit, “Operation Amotekun”, under the control of the Inspector General of Police and Nigeria Police Force. This was contained in a statement on Sunday, titled “Yoruba World Congress supports Akeredolu, Makinde on Amotekun”, signed by […]

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As govt resists restructuring, Yoruba is set for liberation and self-determination –Prof Akintoye tells UNPO

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Emeritus Professor of History, Stephen Banji Akintoye, leader of the Yoruba World Congress (YWC), the umbrella body of over 300 Yoruba groups worldwide, has said the Nigerian environment has been consistently harsh to the Yoruba people who dominate the Southwest part of the country. The elder statesman lamented that though his association is committed to […]

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Mood in Nigeria today similar to months before 1967 civil war –Prof Akintoye

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Renowned historian and president of the Yoruba Nation also known as Yoruba World Congress (YWC), Prof Banji Akintoye, said on Monday that the mood in Nigeria today is similar to the mood in the country months before the 1967 civil war. Speaking in Lagos at the “Never Again Conference” organised by the Nzuko Umunna and […]

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If injustice, inequity persist, Nigeria may explode -Prof Akintoye

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Leader of Yoruba World Congress, Prof. Banji Akintoye, Saturday warned that Nigeria could break up unless there was deep sense of equity, justice and fair play among all ethnic nationalities in the country. Speaking during an interview on Fresh FM 105.9 FM, an Ibadan-based radio station, he called on the Fulani hegemonists “to give up […]

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Its either restructuring or dissolution of Nigeria —Yoruba leader, Prof Akintoye

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Leader of the Yoruba World Congress, emeritus Prof Banji Akintoye, is a former Head of the Department of History, University of Ife now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State. He tells The Punch’s FEMI MAKINDE in this interview that his organisation will work with all groups to defend Yorubaland. You were elected the leader of […]

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