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Two prominent leaders of Nigeria’s socio-cultural groups, Arewa Consultative Forum and Afenifere, Anthony Sani and Yinka Odumakim respectively, have again expressed divergent views on the desirability or otherwise of restructuring the country. Speaking at the 10th edition of the annual lecture...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday urged the Federal Government to implement the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference to tackle insecurity. He gave the advice after he paid a condolence visit to Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere...

Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Southern and Middle Belt Forum (SMBF), and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), have criticised Vice President Yemi Osinbajo over.... Read more via Thisdaylive Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2xnL2v3 Get More Nigeria...

The pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to recruit more policemen from the 774 Local Government Areas in order to improve security.... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2X2xz60 Get More Nigeria Political News

The presidency yesterday stated that Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) is like Afenifere and Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo socio-cultural groups and thus should not be criminalised. It also defended the meeting between the … Read more via Thisdaylive – http://bit.ly/305PUBR...

Ayo Adebanjo, a factional leader of the Pan-African Yoruba group, Afenifere, said he has evidence that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari rigged his re-election in February..... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – http://bit.ly/2H1ayL1 Get More Nigeria Political News

The presidency on Sunday condemned the endorsement of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar by some groups. Influential socio-cultural bodies, including Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Northern Elders’ Forum, Pan-Niger Delta Forum and the Middle Belt...

The faction of the Pan Yoruba socio-cultural and political group, Afenifere, led by Senator Ayo Fasanmi, as well as all the governors of the South-West zone yesterday endorsed President Buhari and his Vice Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, urging the people of the zone to vote for the … Read more via...

Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, says President Muhammadu Buhari is deceiving the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, by putting him in charge of his re-election campaign. The spokesperson for the group, Yinka Odumakin, made this known while speaking to Punch...

Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has faulted the refusal of President, Muhammadu Buhari, to withhold his assent to the amended electoral bill, saying that the president and his party the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had a hidden agenda ahead of next year’s general elections...

Civil society groups on Thursday, September 6, asked President Buhari to reject the N45.5 million APC presidential nomination forms bought for him by a shadowy group, Nigeria Consolidation Ambassadors Network (NCAN). This Day reports that the groups include Centre for Transparency... Read...

Afenifere, the Yoruba socio-cultural group, says it has not endorsed any candidate for the 2019 presidential election. Sehinde Arogbofa, the secretary-general of the group, made the clarification in Akure after the visit of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to the leader of the group...