Who Are the Yoruba People? (I) [opinion]

On the 11th of May 2013 our dreams in the Yoruba Union in Stockholm came true. We were able to organize the first ever Annual Yoruba Day Celebration

YORUBA monarch, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi, the Alaafin of Oyo, has thrown his weight behind the monthly boxing tournament proposed by the Chairman of Oyo State Boxing Association, Baron Akintunde Opaleye. Speaking in his palace at the weekend, ...

A producer/presenter of Bond FM's highly acclaimed news programme in Yoruba language, "Koko inu iwe iroyin" (today in the papers), Jolaoluwa Afolabi popularlly called J.J. Jabulani has said his recent award as the "Radio presenter of the year" was ...

RELIGIOUS bigotry, stereotypes, intolerance, ethnocentrism and their vices, which are some of the problems bedeviling the existence of Nigeria as a nation, were brought to the front burner of live theatre for enthusiasts to savour in the stage play ...

Femi Okurounmu | credits: File copy A leader of the apex Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Senator Femi Okurounmu, in this interview with ALLWELL OKPI speaks on recent political developments in the South-West The controversy surrounding a ...

In his home office, Dr. Donald R. Hopkins has statues of the Hindu smallpox goddess and the Yoruba smallpox god. And, floating coiled up in a glass jar, something that looks like a yardlong strand of capellini but is actually one of the last Guinea ...

Ibadan The Pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG), has faulted President Goodluck Jonathan's recent proclamation of state of emergency on Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States, saying it is "merely a temporary solution that ...

Otunba Gani Adams, National Coordinator of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC) spoke to OBIRE ONAKEMU on the N2.4 billion contract allegedly awarded to Dr. Frederick Fasheun, founder of the organization for pipeline protection; comments by Action ...

FOR the Yoruba in the South-West region of the country, one thing that has become a burning issue of recent is the promotion of the culture of a nation, which has its people beyond the confine of the African continent and has been regarded as one of ...