• Bayo Adetu
• July 27, 2021
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Benin Republic has filed fresh charges against Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, who was arrested in the country last Monday. Ibrahim Salami, one of the Cotonou, Benin Republic-based lawyers of Sunday Igboho, disclosed the new charges after Monday’s hearing, where Igboho was ordered to remain in police custody in Benin Republic. Before the hearing, Salami …

• Bayo Adetu
• July 27, 2021
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The Cour De’appal De Cotonou, Benin Republic, on Monday, granted embattled Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho access to medical care, The PUNCH has learnt. This was after court sessions which lasted for more than eight hours. Igboho’s lawyers battled to secure bail for the activist but the court only granted him access to medical care after the …

• Bayo Adetu
• July 26, 2021
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The trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, resumed at the Federal High Court Abuja on Monday without Kanu’s presence in court. When the matter was called up, the prosecution counsel, M. B. Abubakar, informed the court that the matter was slated for hearing and that they were ready to continue. Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, …

• Bayo Adetu
• July 26, 2021
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Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW in Ijero local government area of Ekiti state, Babatunde Babade, 45, has been arrested by officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. He was arrested alongside two others; Ilesanmi Shola, 35, and Babajide Johnson, 45, for trafficking illicit drug. This is contained in a statement signed by Femi Babafemi, …

• Bayo Adetu
• July 25, 2021
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Motorists and commuters plying the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway may face heavy traffic in the Lagos-Shagamu axis of the highway as the contractor, Julius Berger Nigeria PLC, is set to embark on major work on the project. The construction company said the major road diversion, which will last for three months, would allow for detailed work on sections of the expressway. The …

• Bayo Adetu
• July 24, 2021
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Desperately wanted by the Department of State Services in Nigeria, with an international arrest warrant hanging around his neck, and facing immigration-related offences in Cotonou, the embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, is seeking asylum in the Republic of Benin, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. It was gathered that the 48-year-old activist resorted to the option after he …

• Bayo Adetu
• July 23, 2021
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Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho has had his case at the Cour De’appal De Cotonou adjourned till Monday. Hearing was adjourned till today on Thursday when he faced a charge of using a forged Beninese passport. Media Communications Secretary of the Yoruba self-determination groups’ umbrella body Ilana Omo Oodua (IOO) Mr. Maxwell Adeleye, confirmed the adjournment in a statement issued …

• Bayo Adetu
• July 23, 2021
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The trial of the former Vice Chairman of Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Sakiru Kehinde Asekun who was arraigned  before a Federal High Court in Ikoyi on June  30, 2021, for trafficking of Cocaine has begun. Two officials of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Anebi Ajihma and Okwunjor Augustine, who are the NDLEA forensic expert and …

• Bayo Adetu
• July 23, 2021
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The hearing of a case against the Yoruba Nation activist,  Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, lasted for more than six hours on Thursday at  Cour De’appal De Cotonou, Benin Republic. Igboho, who was arrested at Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou on Monday night, is being tried for immigration-related offences. After three sessions, the court ordered the release of Igboho’s …

• Bayo Adetu
• July 22, 2021
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The Republic of Benin has resisted Nigeria’s attempts to hastily extradite the Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, to the headquarters of the Department of State Services in Abuja. The PUNCH gathered that the Federal Government planned to extradite the activist on Wednesday (yesterday), but Benin Republic insisted that it would not be part of any …