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The Ogun State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Akingbolahan Adeniran, has said that the southwestern states are drafting a legal framework that would stand the test of time on Àmòtékùn. Adeniran, who stated this yesterday while fielding questions from journalists … Read...

Primate Elijah Ayodele, the founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Lagos, has attacked the Spiritual leader of the Adoration Minister, Enugu, Father Ejike Mbaka, saying the fiery preacher is not a prophet of God. Ayodele, a newly appointed United Nations Peace Ambassador, also told the...

Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, has rejected the position of the Nigerian Government to include ‘Operation Amotekun’ under its community policing strategy and have it function as mere informants for the police. The group, after a meeting held in Akure, Ondo State, said that … Read more via...

THE Yoruba are quintessential federalists. They are the Californians or Texans of Nigeria. California and Texas are powerful American states that have positioned themselves as bulwarks against the erosion of federalism in the US. For instance, Texas sued the Obama administration 48 times and...

A security body in the design of the now controversial Amotekun in the south west is set to be inaugurated in the south east, the governor of Ebonyi state, Dave Umahi, has hinted. Umahi said the creation of the outfit is at the end stage of planning to ensure... Read more via Legit.ng –...

The Middle Belt Forum (MBF), yesterday, made a strong case for the creation of a security network similar to Operation Amotekun to tackle the perennial insecurity unleashed on defenceless communities across the states of the Middle Belt … Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2tR8dzq...

Lagos, Ogun and Ekiti states are leading the drafting of model bills on the South-West security outfit, Operation Amotekun The Ekiti State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Wale Fapohunda, who gave this indication in an interview with one of our correspondents on Sunday, also said...

Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akerodolu, yesterday disclosed that governors of the South-west are set to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the region’s security outfit, code-named Amotekun, which has been generating controversy.... Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/30T59Pw Get...

The Federal Government and governors of the South-West geo-political zone yesterday reached a truce on the operational modalities of Operation Amotekun, the regional security outfit launched recently in Ibadan, Oyo State. The agreement came at the end of … Read more via Newtelegraph –...

Rising from their National Executive meeting at Bodija, Ibadan Thursday, the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) has urged National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, not to be more federal than regional in his disposition to the.... Read more via Newtelegraph –...

The Federal Government and South-West governors have reached an agreement on Operation Amotekun. Laolu Akande, the Special Adviser to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, made this known via his verified Twitter handle this evening.... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2Ggub1k Get...

Osinbajo and governors from the Southwest are discussing Amotekun at the villa. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently locked in a meeting with governors of Nigeria’s Southwest region over Amotekun, the region’s newly launched security outfit, a highly placed source in the..... Read more...

The Western Nigerian Security outfit codenamed Operation Amotekun remains an illegal entity, the FG has maintained. According to The Nation, the Federal Government has insisted the Western Nigerian Security outfit codenamed Operation Amotekun remains.... Read more via Tori News –...

Osogbo—Director-General of Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, Mr Seye Oyeleye, has said the Western Nigeria Security Network, WNSN, codenamed Amotekun, is aimed at protecting all ethnic groups in South-West. He added that the region is not … Read more via Vanguard News –...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Sunny Onuesoke, in this interview, speaks on the controversy over the South-West Regional Security Outfit, suggesting what governors of the South-South geopolitical zone and leaders should do to effectively secure their region.... Read...

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday explained why he had remained silent over the raging controversies surrounding the launch of Operation Amotekun by South-West governors.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and...

Chief Charles Idahosa, former Commissioner for Information in Edo State, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former political adviser to Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, in this chat spoke on Operation Amotekun, raging issues in the APC, and … Read more via Vanguard News –...

As the newly launched security outfit tagged Western Nigeria Security Network (tagged: Operation Amotekun) begins operations, one of its personnel, Soludero Hunters’ Association has said the..... Read more via The Trent – https://ift.tt/379GecD Get More Nigeria Metro News

Two retired military generals openly support the Amotekun security network which was recently inaugurated by governors of the southwest region. Brigadier General Kunle Togun (retd) says the Amotekun initiative is a means of defending the southwest territory from invasion..... Read more via...

The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has been called upon to arrest the Yoruba leaders promoting the establishment of the new security outfit, Amotekun in the South West. Making the call in an interview with the Sun at the weekend is the National President General of Miyetti Allah…...