Afenifere

June 30 (THEWILL) — The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has commended Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, and his Lagos State counterpart, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for their decisive response to the menace of banditry and kidnapping in both states. The...

June 02, (THEWILL) – The Presidency and the Pan- Yoruba social, political organisation, Afenifere on Sunday disagreed on the impact of the Bola Tinubu Administration in the past two years. While the Presidency maintained that President Tinubu's mid-term report shows...

February 25, (THEWILL) – The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has appointed Oba Oladipo Olaitan as its new leader, following the passing of Pa Ayo Adebanjo on February 14, 2025. In a statement issued after its monthly general meeting...

January 28, (THEWILL) – Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has called on President Bola Tinubu to immediately facilitate the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), describing him as a political detainee whose...

April 15, (THEWILL) - In the course of the week, I had cause to be at the Akure, Ondo State home of the Afenifere Leader, Reuben Fasoranti, and I saw modesty in its raw form. From Fasoranti’s symbolic bungalow,...

April 8, (THEWILL) - When sometime in 2008, the late Yinka Odumakin invited me to his 23, Sylvia Crescent, Anthony Village office in Lagos, little did I know that a big surprise was waiting for me. A fine...

May 12, (THEWILL) – Leader of Pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, has expressed his regret over the current state of Nigeria. Fasoranti spoke at his 97th birthday ceremony, held at his residence in Akure, Ondo State...

April 05, (THEWILL) – The pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has accused the Federal Government of "unashamedly" embarking on a mission to lobby foreign media to distort facts of the just concluded general elections in Nigeria. THEWILL earlier reported...

This is not the best of times for the pan-Yoruba sociopolitical organisation, Afenifere, as it has broken into two opposing camps that are currently singing discordant tunes. Afenifere presents itself as the voice of the South-West, the same way that...

March 30, (THEWILL) – Former Leader of Pan-Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Famuyide Fasoranti, has dissociated the Group from a communiqué purportedly issued after a meeting that held on Tuesday, March 27, at Isanya Ogbo, Ogun State, because...