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Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, known as M. K. O. Abiola GCFR (August 24, 1937 – July 7, 1998) was a Nigerian businessman, publisher, politician, and aristocrat of the Egba clan. He was the Aare Ona Kankafo XIV of Yorubaland.

He ran for the presidency in 1993, for which the election results were annulled by the preceding military president Ibrahim Babangida because of allegations that they were corrupt and unfair. He was awarded the GCFR posthumously on June 6, 2018, by President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria’s democracy day was changed to June 12.

He was a personal friend of Babangida and he is believed to have supported Babangida’s coming to power.

His support in the June 1993 presidential election cut across geo-political zones and religious divisions, among a few politicians to accomplish such a spread during his time. He had become an unexpected symbol of democracy. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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By • Olalekan Fagbade Father arrested by Police operatives allegedly for defiling seven-year-old Daughter A man identified as Felix Iloghevbo has been arrested by men of the Edo State Police Command for allegedly defiling his seven-year-old daughter. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Chidi Nwabuzor, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said the man committed the crime on September 19, 2023, in the Idokpa community, Uhunmwode Local Government Area of the state. He said operatives of the Egba Divisional Headquarters, while acting on credible information, arrested the suspect who he said confessed to the crime while the victim was taken to a hospital for a medical examination. “The men of the Egba Division arrested Iloghevbo after they got credible information about the crime which occurred on September 19, 2023, in the Idokpa community in Uhunmwode Local Government Area of the state,” he said. The PPRO added that the police arrested one Godwin Osaghale for allegedly raping a 20-year-old girl in the state. He said the suspect was arrested at Uromi, Edo Central following a complaint from the father of the victim that the suspect entered his apartment while he was not around, met his sick daughter on a chair and forcefully had sex with her. Nwabuzor said investigations were ongoing and that the suspects would soon be charged in court.

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One killed as kidnappers engage police in gun battle

One person has been shot dead by suspected kidnappers in Ogun State. The police in Ogun State on Tuesday arrested two of the suspected kidnappers. The suspects, who were identified as Mohammed Bello and Mohammed Bashiru, were apprehended following a distress call received from Bisodun village. The villagers had informed the police that the kidnappers had invaded their community at about 8pm to abduct a couple, Mr and Mrs Ojo. Upon the distress call, the DPO of Owode Egba division, CSP Olasunkanmi Popoola, had raced to the scene, where he met the local hunters in large numbers, facing the kidnappers. According to the Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the policemen joined the hunters in search for the kidnappers and the victims. Oyeyemi said “the kidnappers suddenly opened fire on the rescue team,” stating that the security men also responded. He regretted that one of the hunters was unfortunately hit by the bullet. Oyeyemi informed that the kidnappers, who were overwhelmed by the gunfire from the police and the hunters, abandoned the victims and fled. The abducted victims and the injured hunter were reportedly rushed to the hospital; “but the hunter, Adebare Ramoni, gave up the ghost while receiving treatment.” “At about 10am in the morning, there was information that the suspects were sighted somewhere in the bush, consequence upon which the Area commander of Owode Egba, ACP Adeniyi Adedeji, led teams of policemen to the scene and together with the hunters, stormed the bush and successfully apprehended two amongst the kidnappers,” Oyeyemi said. Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, in Ogun, Frank Mba, commended the hunters, even as he ordered the transfer of the suspects to the anti-kidnapping unit. Mba sympathized with the family of the slain hunter, praying God to give them the fortitude to bear the loss. Read the full article

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Anthony Enahoro, women and the Western House of Assembly, By Tayo Agunbiade

Anthony Enahoro, women and the Western House of Assembly, By Tayo Agunbiade

Chief Anthony Enahoro In pre-Independence Nigeria, Enahoro’s Motion set the pace for a handful of women to be nominated to two of the three regional legislative houses. Two years later, Aiyedun was replaced by Lady Oyinkan Abayomi. In 1959, Margaret Ekpo and Janet N. Mokelu were appointed as Special Members in the Eastern House of Chiefs. No woman was nominated to the Northern Region’s…

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SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS INFLICT INJURY ON POLICE DPO IN ABEOKUTA

SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS INFLICT INJURY ON POLICE DPO IN ABEOKUTA

Secondary school students in Abeokuta have injured the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Obantoko Division, Alimeke Ignatius. It was gathered that the security operative was stoned in the head after a bloody clash had ensued between students of Egba Comprehensive High School and Asero High School in Asero, both in Abeokuta. Sources say the rampaging students, who hauled stones and other sharp…

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Secondary school students attack DPO in Ogun

Secondary school students attack DPO in Ogun

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Obantoko Division in Adatan Area Command of Abeokuta, Ogun State, SP Alimeke Ignatius and his men have been reportedly attacked by some rampaging students of two secondary schools in the state capital. The police officers were reportedly attacked during a fight between students of Egba Comprehensive High School and Asero High School in Asero area. It was…

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Nnamdi Kanu requested plundering of Oba's Palace, consuming of Uzodinma's home – FG

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Nnamdi Kanu requested plundering of Oba's Palace, consuming of Uzodinma's home – FG

The Federal Government of Nigeria has blamed that pioneer for the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu of requesting the consuming of a house having a place with Imo state lead representative, Hope Uzodinma and affecting the plundering of the Oba of Lagos Palace during the #EndSARS fights.

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This was contained in an assertion on Friday by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami. The public authority asserts that Kanu captured the #EndSARS dissents and utilized impelling explanations to propel individuals from his gathering, IPOB to assault security specialists and obliterate public property.

The assertion, shipped off POLITICS NIGERIA, read to a limited extent; “The damaging exercises of IPOB/ESN present genuine danger to Nigeria’s National Security and its corporate presence, which came about into re-capture of Nnamdi Kanu and individuals from his gathering.”

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“The inevitable re-capture of Nnamdi Kanu in June 2021, and a few individuals from his gathering prompted the introduction of a Presidential Ad-hoc Committee, including (24) individuals drawn from:

Government Ministry of Justice (MoJ),

Government Ministry of Information (MoI),

Nigeria Police Force (NPF),

Division of State Services (DSS),

Public Intelligence Agency (NIA), and

Protection Intelligence Agency (DIA),

“The Committee, introduced by the President, and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR), was going by the Honorable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.”

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“The Committee finds as a reality, that ensuing upon the affecting orders of Nnamdi Kanu, individuals from IPOB/ESN completed enormous assaults on equitable foundations particularly INEC Facilities with the end goal of hampering vote based cycle in Nigeria. These assaults that were done between October 2020 and June 2021 incorporate the accompanying:

“That the Headquarters of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Umuahia, Abia State was likewise assaulted by IPOB/ESN prompting the demise of one (1) official;”

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“That there were a few IPOB/ESN assaults and obliteration (fire related crime) of public and private properties during the EndSARS and Biafra disturbances the nation over, particularly in the South-East and South-South areas, quite the Palace of the Oba of Lagos where twelve (12) pads were totally plundered and vandalized, the farm house of the Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, was scorched, more than one hundred and fifty (150) transports consumed at the Lagos Bus Terminal, Sen. Ndoma Egba’s home in Calabar Municipal, Cross River State, was totally plundered and vandalized, Lagos State DNA and Forensic Center, City Hall Race Course, First Bank Branch Lagos, Lagos State Public Works Commission, Nigeria Port Authority (NPA), Marina, Lagos, High Court Igbosere, Lagos, were completely singed, among other appalling wrongdoings carried out.”

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Police arrest robbers that killed a cab driver before stealing his car

Police arrest robbers that killed a cab driver before stealing his car

A division of the Lagos state police have arrested the armed robbers that killed a cab driver in order to steal his car. The information was posted by a Facebook user, Haa Dey Yemi Ancestor. He posted a picture of the deceased as well as a photo of one of the criminals that were apprehended. He captioned the post ; “Picture of the Handsome Fellow Pilot that was dropped at Abule – Egba by Evil…

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Police arrest POS robbers, alleged fake sergeant in Lagos

Police arrest POS robbers, alleged fake sergeant in Lagos

Suspected fake sergeant The Lagos State Police Command has beamed its searchlight on armed robbers who terrorise POS (Point of Sale) operators in the state as its operatives attached to Ipaja Division at the weekend arrested one Korede Anifowose, 24, for attacking an operator. He was nabbed at Omisakin Street, Agbelekale, Abule Egba, after robbing one Sola Musa, a POS operator, at Fatolu Bus…

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Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, known as M. K. O. Abiola GCFR (August 24, 1937 – July 7, 1998) was a Nigerian businessman, publisher, politician, and aristocrat of the Egba clan. He was the Aare Ona Kankafo XIV of Yorubaland. He ran for the presidency in 1993, for which the election results were annulled by the preceding military president Ibrahim Babangida because of allegations that they were corrupt and unfair. He was awarded the GCFR posthumously on June 6, 2018, by President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria's democracy day was changed to June 12. He was a personal friend of Babangida and he is believed to have supported Babangida's coming to power. His support in the June 1993 presidential election cut across geo-political zones and religious divisions, among a few politicians to accomplish such a spread during his time. He had become an unexpected symbol of democracy. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/Cho6IfnLs5FAlvZfqZAdNC8a4b7iBc0hIT_8HM0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Moshood Abiola's 83rd Posthumous Birthday Is Today

Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, also known as M. K. O. Abiola GCFR (24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998) was a Nigerian businessman, publisher, politician and aristocrat of the Egba clan. He was the Aare Ona Kankafo XIV of Yorubaland. MKO Abiola ran for the presidency in 1993, for which the election results were annulled by the preceding military president Ibrahim Babangida because of allegations that they were corrupt and unfair. Abiola was awarded the GCFR posthumously on 6 June 2018 by President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria's democracy day was changed to June 12. Abiola was a personal friend of Babangida and he is believed to have supported Babangida's coming to power. Abiola's support in the June 1993 presidential election cut across geo-political zones and religious divisions, among a few politicians to accomplish such a spread during his time. By the time of his death, he had become an unexpected symbol of democracy. Imprisonment In 1994 Moshood Abiola declared himself the lawful president of Nigeria in the Epetedo area of Lagos island, an area mainly populated by (Yoruba) Lagos Indigenes. He had recently returned from a trip to win the support of the international community for his mandate. After declaring himself president he was declared wanted and was accused of treason and arrested on the orders of military President General Sani Abacha, who sent 200 police vehicles to bring him into custody. MKO Abiola has been referred to as Nigeria's greatest statesman. Read the full article

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RUGA: Defend your lands, Ooni, Soyinka, tell Nigerians

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, have called on Nigerians across state demarcations to defend the sanctity of their ancestral lands against usage for Ruga cattle settlements. The call was contained in a communiqué issued on Sunday to document highlights of last Thursday’s meeting between the monarch and Soyinka at the latter’s home in Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The meeting focused on the state of the nation. Oba Ogunwusi and Soyinka made the call just as the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum raised the alarm that the Federal Government was plotting to repeal the Land Use Act, which conferred the power to control lands in states on governors. The Ooni of Ife and the Nobel laureate, in the communiqué on Sunday, said their call on Nigerians to defend themselves became necessary as the Coalition of Northern Groups gave a 30-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to implement the Ruga project for Fulani herders despite its suspension after a public outcry against it. The communiqué stated, “In this regard, the recent ultimatum delivered by a sectarian order to the President of this nation to set up the so-called Ruga cattle settlements across the entire nation within a stipulated time, despite the national outcry, should be acknowledged as an entitlement under the bounty of freedom of expression. “In return, we exercise ours, and call upon Nigerian nationals across state demarcations to defend the sanctity of their ancestral lands. This birthright has never been annulled, not even under colonial occupation.” The Ooni and Soyinka, who is the Akogun of Isara and Akinlatun of Egba, noted in the communique that the colonial contraption known as Nigeria could not survive another upheaval in the nature of the civil war of the Biafran secession. They advised that all efforts must, therefore, be made to anticipate and douse socio-political flare-ups advancing the chances of a recurrence of such a conflict, no matter how reduced in scale, its devastating effects on the Nigerian humanity. The traditional ruler and the Nobel laureate added, “Among such issues of urgent import are the ongoing insurrectional movements that derive from religious fanaticism and intolerance, exemplified by Boko Haram and allied tendencies, as well as aspects of commercial enterprise, in which some groups consider themselves especially privileged, singular, and above the laws and entitlements that are binding on other sectors of commercial and industrial undertaking. We have in mind destructive forms of social transactions that characterise groups such as nomadic cattle herdsmen, and their umbrella groupings in the nature of Myetti Allah. “We confess ourselves increasingly distressed and appalled, that the hitherto harmonious cohabitation, even routine collaboration, among the productive arms of society that Nigerians have taken for granted even from pre-colonial times, have deteriorated to unprecedented levels of barbarity, contempt for human lives and a defiant trampling on the civic entitlements of other productive sectors such as farmers, the providers of both food and cash crops. This abhorrent, yet consistent pattern of sectarian, and homicidal arrogance is obviously not merely counter-productive but inhuman, criminal and divisive.” Besides, they re-affirmed their commitment to the rights of every individual, community, collectivity of human beings as primary and pre-eminent above other parameters of human development or formal associations. They further called on Nigerians to recognise that the internal colonisation project was ever recurrent and that there were backward, primitive, undeveloped minds that failed, and continued to fail to overcome delusions in the antiquated belief in sectarian domination as the key to social existence. They charged the Nigerian people, both at state and community levels, to convoke a series of frank encounters, across various interests and concerns to debate and determine in full freedom the future structure of the nation. Both of them said, “We consider it a primary imperative of nation existence that the constitutive parts of the nation take steps to preserve and enhance their distinct cultural identities, including tested and relevant pre-colonial values, their spiritual apprehension of phenomena and worship, all without detriment to the principles and ideals of mutual co-existence. “To this end, we undertake to create state-of-the-art ethnic museums for our people both at home and in the Diaspora, where present and future generations can access their histories and cultures vividly, as living expressions of their very humanity, not simply as relics of eras vanished for ever or irrelevant to the present.” FG planning to repeal Land Use Act, SMBLF raises alarm However, the SMBLF said there was a surreptitious plan by the Federal Government to repeal the Land Use Act and take over the control of lands from state governors. This, it said, was to enable the government to subsequently implement the suspended Ruga project. The forum said it gathered that the Federal Government suspended the Ruga settlement programme due to the Act which restricted its access to land, adding that the government might move to repeal the law in order to facilitate the implementation of the Ruga grazing scheme. The SMBLF, therefore, cautioned the southern lawmakers in the National Assembly to be vigilant and to guard against the introduction of any bill intended to repeal or amend the Land Use Act. The forum said this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday by its co-spokespersons, Yinka Odumakin (South-West), Prof. Chigozie Ogbu (South-East), Senator Bassey Henshaw (South-South), Dr Isuwa Dogo (Middle-Belt). The group stated that it was not any way impressed by the suspension of the Ruga settlement project, which it declared as an expansionist agenda on behalf of the Fulani nomads. The statement partly read, “It is being alleged that there will be moves to repeal the Land Use Act in the (Ruga) suspension period so the Federal Government can have authority over land which is currently under the states. “We therefore call on all our members in the National Assembly to be vigilant about any surreptitious bill that may be introduced to tamper with control of land and thwart such without any waste of time. The 2014 National Conference debated this issue at length and resolved to retain the Land Use Act in the constitution.” The forum further warned the lawmakers against passing the ‘Bill to establish a Regulatory Framework for the Water Resources Sector in Nigeria,’ sponsored by the executive, noting that it was meant to give the Federal Government the sole authority and control over the nation’s rivers and underground water. The group added, “When this obnoxious Water Bill is taken alongside the Ruga programme and the speculated assault on Land Use Act, the internal colonialism agenda is complete. “It is pertinent to ask why the Federal Government is not going ahead with Ruga in some northern states that have accepted the policy if the whole idea was not about land-grabbing in the South and Middle Belt states.” The political pressure group stated that the Federal Government’s support for local government autonomy was hinged on the Ruga scheme to allow aliens to take over allotted land under the programme. It vowed not to relax its opposition to the project, stressing that only outright cancellation of the initiative was acceptable to the forum. “The whole policy has equally opened our eyes to the reason why the President has been harping on local government autonomy now and then,” the group stressed. Be vigilant, CAN advises southerners On its part, the Christian Association of Nigeria in southern Nigeria warned the people of the area to remain vigilant, adding that the Ruga project was not over. In a statement on Sunday, the Secretary of CAN in the 17 southern states, Dr Joseph Ajujungwa, said despite its suspension, government was still working on the project. Southern CAN called on every southerner “to be watchful,” stressing that “even as we pray, we don’t need to keep quiet.” The statement partly read, “We do not have any land to give to anybody as a grazing field or a colony and we call on the South-East governors to maintain their stand that they do not have such a place. Do you know what it means to give 10 hectares of land to herdsmen? We say no to that.” “As CAN, we will preach it from our pulpits, every Imam should peach from the mosque and the traditionalists should stand against it. Nobody should relent. No land should be given. Any traditional ruler that does that should be dethroned. “In the North, they have largest hectares of land. Very vast land that nobody is occupying. Why are they not building the ranches or Ruga there? They can come here, take grass and go, and we buy cows in exchange, just like the governors said.” Read the full article

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KEYNOTE SPEECH

By

Mr. Adeyinka Shoyemi, Researcher at Economic Initiative

At

Majekobaje Oduduwa Yoruba Customary Court

Seminar on Yoruba Past, Present and the Future

Saturday 4th October, 2014, London, England

There was and still is an internationally recognized Yoruba Country before there was a Nigeria-Country.

“The name ‘Yoruba Country’ appeared in a book “Seventeen Years in The Yoruba Country” written in 1851… 33 years short of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 that triggered the enslavement of once a proud civilisation.”

I.            Introduction

Distinguished Participants, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a big honour for me to deliver, on behalf of the Majekobaje Oduduwa Yoruba Customary Court, a keynote speech at this very important forum. I would like to first congratulate the Forum, in particular its organiser Erelu Lola Ayorinde for this seminar and for her hospitality. I also would wish to recognize the great efforts of others who have worked very hard to prepare for this seminar, particularly in conceptualizing its substance.

Today, as requested by the organizers, let me first begin with a brief report on The Yoruba Country. I then would like to discuss how has the Yoruba independence from Britain in 1952 impacted on domestic and regional Yoruba economy, calling for the Yoruba Self-Rule as an example under Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the first Leader of Government, Business and Minister of Local Government and Finance, and first Premier of the Yoruba Western Region under Nigeria’s parliamentary system, from 1952 to 1959. Thirdly, I would wish to dwell further on the issue of regional autonomy, particularly in the domestic context of true and fiscal federalism. And so, I will discuss the issue of the Yoruba people of Nigeria demands from the Federal Republic of Nigeria before linking all these topics back to the broader issue of Yoruba Past, Present and the Future. As you appreciate, the topics requested by the organizers for me to talk about in this keynote speech are wide ranging, and I hope to elaborate further on the issues during the panel discussions following this keynote speech. 

II.            The Yoruba…Our Context As A People

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In the beginning, there was no Nigeria. There were ethnic nationalities and Kingdoms. The name ‘Yoruba Country’ appeared in a book: “Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country” written in 1851 by Anna Hinderer, wife of the Rev. David Hinderer, C.M.S. Missionary in Western Africa …33 years short of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 that triggered the enslavement of a once proud civilization and 63 years prior to the British conquest and amalgamation of the different ethnic nationalities that make up the present day Nigeria in 1914. At that place was and still is an internationally recognized Yoruba Country before there was a Nigeria country. 

Yoruba people developed one of the most sophisticated and well balanced political and governance systems in the universe, from 10th century on – a political system based on the sovereignty of the people, with strong dedication to the dignity of life, human freedom, and accountability in leadership and governance. This was confirmed in Report 1114 – the 1921 Annual Colonial Report on Nigeria by the British, when it says that ‘… the Yoruba occupy the western corner of Nigeria and from an early date possessed an organized government. [p.3] 

“Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country”, published in 1851, 63 years before Nigeria was created reported that the Yoruba country, with a population estimated at about three millions, speaks one language, but comprises many separate tribes, occupies a region stretching inland from the Bright of Benin to within forty miles of the Niger, and bordered on the West by the Kingdom of Dahomey.  

The gradual suppression of the slave trade may have significantly opened the way, in 1843, for the preaching of the Gospel to the inhabitants of the land, whose religion is a system of a multitude of the Orishas, above all, Ifa, “a system of divination”, who is represented and consulted by means of palm-nuts, are worshipped as mediators between the people and the one Supreme God, Olodumare, whom they acknowledge.  

But the British invasion and amalgamation of the Yoruba Country with its diverse neighbours have produced tension and difficult moments for the Yoruba people. The next step in charting a course for the future is to safeguard the destiny of the Yoruba Country. The crisis in Nigeria has proven that developing the Yoruba Country is clearly on a path toward a more regionally integrated autonomy, yet nationally connected paradigm – one that better balance increased competition in the regions with a gradual, moderate national integration by a modest responsibility for Defence, Foreign Policy and the Economy for the Federal Government as negotiated and established in the Independent Nigeria’s first constitution under a parliamentary democracy, with executive power vested in a Prime Minister and each of Nigeria’s three constituent units: Western, Eastern, and Northern regions—also had its own government and premier. 

III.            Yoruba Self-Rule

We all know that Nigeria had its independence from the British colonial government in 1960. What many Yoruba do not recognize is that prior to Nigeria’s independence in 1960, the Yoruba people had rejected the political leadership of Britain over the Yoruba Country as far back as 1952 in what was known then as self-rule.  

Immediately the Yoruba attained self-rule in 1952, the political boundaries of the country were separated into the following:

Political Boundaries:

1. Regional

2. Provincial

3. Divisional

4. District and

5. Native Authorities

The Regional Government was called the Western Region of Nigeria. The Region had the following Provinces:

Provincial Boundaries:

1. Oyo Province

2. Ibadan Province

3. Abeokuta Province

4. Lagos Colony

5. Ijebu Province

6. Oyo-Ife Province

7. Ondo Province

8. Benin Province and

9. Ilorin and Kabba Province

I have added here Ilorin and Kabba Province as part of the Western Region of Nigeria because in 1952, referendums were held in the areas and the people voted to be part of the Western Region of Nigeria, the British colonial government handed over the results of the referendums to Tafawa Balewa and Nnamdi Azikwe in 1960, being non-Yoruba but Prime Minister and Governor-General of Nigeria respectively, denied the Yoruba people in Ilorin and Kabba their fundamental human right to be part of their kith and kin in Western Region of Nigeria. 

Notwithstanding, however, the above 9 provinces were further divided into the following divisional boundaries.

Divisional Boundaries

A. Oyo Province had only one divisional boundary: Oyo Division.

B. Ibadan Province had two divisional boundaries: Osun and Ibadan Divisions. 

C. Abeokuta Province had two divisional boundaries: Egbado and Egba Divisions.

D. Lagos Province was called Lagos Colony.

E. Ijebu Province had two divisional boundaries: Remo and Ijebu-Ode Divisions.

F. Oyo-Ife Province had two divisional boundaries: Ife and Ilesha Divisions.

G. Ondo Province had four divisional boundaries: Ekiti, Owo, Ondo and Okitipupa Divisions.

H. Benin Province had three divisional boundaries: Afenmai, Benin and Delta Divisions. 

I. Ilorin and Kabba Province had two divisional boundaries: Ilorin and Kabba Divisions. 

The above listed 19 Divisions were each further divided into districts. For want of space, I will concern myself with only the Districts of 5 out of the 19 Divisions.

The 5 Districts are taken from the Benin and Ilorin/Kabba Provinces. 

District Boundaries:

A. The Benin Province had Afenmai Division, Benin Division and Delta Division.

1. Afenmai Division had Akoko-Edo, Ivbiosakon, and Etsako Districts.

2. Benin Division had Benin, Ishan, and Asaba Districts.

3. Delta Division had Warri, Urhobo, Aboh and Western Ijaw Districts.

B. The Ilorin/Kabba Province had Ilorin Division and Kabba Division.

1. Ilorin Division had Ilorin, Igbomina, Ibolo and part of Ekiti Districts.

2. Kabba Division had Yagba West, Yagba East, Ijumu and Kabba Districts. 

To complete the Yoruba Western Region political boundaries, the districts were further divided into Native Authorities.

In total, the Yoruba Country had 1 Autonomous Region, 9 Provinces, 19 Divisions, more than 40 Districts and over 200 Native Authorities as far back as 1952. 

This political system and boundaries under the exceptional leadership of our topmost statesman of the time –Chief Obafemi Awolowo – served the Yoruba people with the very best government in the whole of Africa. Under their leadership, the Western Region became the pacesetter in virtually all facets of modern development. As examples, the Region developed programmes that empowered Yoruba people to become some of the most productive in Africa. The Region became “First in Africa”, until the Ibo, using the military, suspended the system and the Hausa/Fulani, also using the military, instituted a unitary presidential system, an unworkable political system in 1966. 

IV.            Challenges of the Yoruba Country

What do these changes mean? 

The current Nigeria is not oriented towards development, advancement or prosperity. Nigeria now tends towards the maximization of power by the federal establishment. As a result, authority and control in Nigeria have been accumulated in the confines of the Federal Government. Nigeria, a country of different nations, has brought down the governments of the states of the Nigerian Federation to the level of impotency and incapacity. These have stunted the growth and development of the Yoruba Country and her citizens.  

Regional Autonomy is thus believed to be the most appropriate strategy in “rebalancing” the growth to make the Yoruba Country more sustainable, hence, the Yoruba People, the most economically integrated nations within Nigeria, are leading the demand for regional autonomy. Yoruba Assembly, The Afenifere Renewal Group and The Yoruba Academy have listed the following as the Yoruba demands:

1. Regionalism: A restructured Nigeria federation consisting of a Central Government and Regional Governments of other ethnic nationalities – this could be based on the current six geo-political zones. The South-West Region must include all Yoruba people outside the imposed artificial boundaries in Edo, Delta, Kogi and Kwara. 

2. A negotiated Primary and Secondary Legislative List.

3. A unicameral legislature at the centre.

4. A parliamentary form of government at the centre.

5. The right to self-determination on and up to the right to secede.

6. A just and equitable taxation system that will treat the federating units with equality and better coordination at the federal level in order to eliminate the current rentier syndrome of monthly allocation of money.

7. Fiscal Federalism and Resource Control: A system whereby a substantial part of the proceeds accruable from every Region will be domiciled in the Region and an agreed percentage contributed to the centre by the federating units for the responsibility of the Federal Government.

8. Establishment of Regional Police.

9. Establishment of Regional Regimental Armed Forces.

10. A new people’s constitution: The resolutions and conclusions of the 2014 National Conference shall lead to an autochthonous Constitution, that is a home-grown and all inclusive draft that shall be submitted to the Nigerian electorate voting in a Referendum. 

Instead, the status quo ante of a unitary presidential system with states as federating units and beholden to the federal government, immediately breathed again and were endorsed by delegate approval of the National Conference.

Since the key requirements of the Yoruba People were aggressively rejected at the National Conference, the Yoruba Youths had built sufficient membership, and for the most part, prudently created the Movement for Oduduwa Republic, needed to energize the Yoruba People in the face of economic injustice. The result is that the Yoruba Youth is leading the demand for Oduduwa Republic, and can hopefully continue to push their demand peacefully but otherwise where the Federal Government continues to constitute a clog in the wheel to a path of sustained growth and development of the Yoruba Country.

V.            Toward Oduduwa Nation

In politics, the most potent forces spring from intimate human experience. At this moment, we are witnessing a poignant example here in the United Kingdom. Scotland had just held an independence referendum. We recognise what this means to us and we do not need much imagination to picture what it means to the people of Nigeria. This act of strategic approaches in regional economic cooperation can be seen at two different levels: one at the national level (Westminster Government); and the other at the regional (Scottish Parliament, Wales, England and Northern Ireland Assemblies). They set a tide of opinion in motion and the politician must swim with the tide – or sink.  

What is more, the Wales Acts of 1535 and 1542, known as the Acts of Union between England and Wales, were parliamentary measures by which the legal organisation of England was extended to Wales and the norms of English administration introduced. The intention was to create a single state and a single legal jurisdiction. The Acts were passed during the reign of King Henry VIII of England, who came from the Welsh Tudor dynasty. 

In 1701, the English/Wales parliament passed a law to form a Union with Scotland. 

In 1706, the Scottish parliament also passed a similar law to form a Union with England/Wales. In concert, both proclaimed their union the United Kingdom of Great Britain. 

After the 1706 Union of England and Wales on one hand and Scotland on the other hand, the Irish joined them in 1801 after its own parliament had also passed the same law to join the Union. The Union name was changed from the United Kingdom of Great Britain to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 

Notwithstanding, in 1922, the Irish people got fed up with the Union and left to form the Republic of Ireland. The Northern section of the Irish sphere, however, remained in the Union. Again for the third time the name of the Union was changed from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

In the case of Nigeria, however, there is no record of a Yoruba parliament agreeing with that of the Ibo or Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri’s parliaments to form a Union called Nigeria. But there were negotiations and agreements at independence among the Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa/Fulani for a parliamentary democracy with executive power vested in a Prime Minister and each of Nigeria’s three constituent units: Western, Eastern, and Northern regions—also had its own government and premier like we have presently in the United Kingdom. 

It therefore makes perfect economic and political sense to declare for the Oduduwa Republic in the absence of Yoruba Regional Government that must include Ekiti, Lagos, Ondo, Ogun, Osun and Oyo States as well as all Yoruba People outside the imposed artificial boundaries in Edo, Delta, Kogi and Kwara States.

No one would accuse the Yoruba Youth of being progressive. They do not squander their time on speeches but expend little more than the law requires on their renewed Petition for Referendum Vote they filed February 8, 2011 with the Secretary General of the United Nations, His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon and the head of the Nigeria government President Goodluck Jonathan.

Our mission here and now is to coordinate and facilitate the creation, out of Nigeria, an independent and sovereign Oduduwa Nation very shortly.

VI.            The Function of the Movement for Oduduwa Republic

I hope I was able to show you some of the key strategic elements in considering regional autonomy and the Oduduwa Republic in the current national context of Nigeria. Indeed the challenges are big, but at the same time, it is not something we can afford to escape or delay.  

The Movement for Oduduwa Republic (MORE) as an indigenous pro-sovereign independent Yoruba group expressly envisioning the actualization of a sovereign Oduduwa Republic, as our primary vision, and the process of actualizing this huge mandate is based on high profile mobilization of all segments of the Yoruba Country at home and abroad.  

The above Movement core – demand is not adverse to the call to reinstate the practice of regional autonomy, as a pre-condition for a future Oduduwa Republic, which is the fundamental irreducible agenda of our movement. We reject the creation of state as constituent units and the citation of state willing to come together to form a zone, without constitutional powers to acts and take absolute control of the resources in our land and water, for the common advancement of our people and region and the totality of our lives. 

When disease attacks our bodies, the pain we suffer at first is our bodies’ work in repairing the balance. If the balance is not restored, we are either maimed or we die. So it is with society. When we by our actions disturb the equilibrium, forces come into play to restore it – forces which pay no regard to human life. If they go bad, society dies; and the worst and most terrible of these correctives are revolution and war. 

Confucius said: “Do not use your eyes, your ears, your power of speech or faculty of movement without obeying the inner law of self-control… act as you were watching over an infant.” 

Justice is this law of restraint. It arises from the nature of human beings and human society. The balance between what we give and receive is disturbed when one of us takes without giving. Could anything be simpler that this? 

The impetus of human action is the will to live; and to live, man must eat, sleep, mate and rear children. These are his primary needs, and if anyone is denied, his whole being is filled with a single longing such as thirst or thirst. He becomes ill, even demented or savage. The urge to gratify these needs sends him to work. That is why he does act upon; to give, to glory in giving. This urge may raise him to the stature of a god; but it may reduce him to servility and dependence. The inner knowledge, recognised by all creation, drives him on, and is the reason why men endure slavery, injustice, and deprivation and also the reason why men take to revolutions and wars.

Ladies and Gentlemen, 

We totally know that justice is better than oppression, freedom than slavery, and wealth than deprivation. We all recognize that our greatest pride is in something well done. We would infinitely prefer to enjoy this better state. Our difficulty is to see how to enjoy it – and live. It is the task of the Movement for Oduduwa Republic to point the way. 

Thank you very much for your kind attention and I hope the seminar will be a great success.

Thank you.

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Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, also known as M. K. O. Abiola GCFR (24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998) was a Nigerian businessman, publisher, politician, and aristocrat of the Egba clan. He was the Aare Ona Kankafo XIV of Yorubaland. He ran for the presidency in 1993, for which the election results were annulled by the preceding military president Ibrahim Babangida because of allegations that they were corrupt and unfair. He was awarded the GCFR posthumously on 6 June 2018 by President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria's democracy day was changed to June 12. He was a personal friend of Babangida and he is believed to have supported Babangida's coming to power. His support in the June 1993 presidential election cut across geo-political zones and religious divisions, among a few politicians to accomplish such a spread during his time. He had become an unexpected symbol of democracy. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CS9OhfJrkC3hB5qOlRpSYy0jboR9oUaeMIAsGg0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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