Africa is home to over 3,000 different tribes speaking over 2,000 languages. Swahili is the most widely spoken language in Africa, with over 200 million speakers, followed by Yoruba and Igbo. Arabic ...

A new Yoruba interest group, Oodua Unity Group, has renewed the call for an independent Yoruba nation or alternatively a regional government in Nigeria. The call was made in a maiden statement ...

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has accused the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, of harboring deep-seated bias against Yoruba Muslims. MURIC made the disclosure in a statement issued ...

Human Rights Lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has disclosed that Afenifere is the Yoruba name for Action Congress, a party founded by late Western region Premier, Obafemi Awolowo. Naija News reported that ...

Human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has called on Nigerians to support the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organization, Afenifere, in its journey for a better country. Naija News reports that Farotimi said ...

He did this by appropriating imagery drawn from the religious practices of his Yoruba ancestors and making it his own. Born into a prominent Nigerian family that fled the civil war triggered by ...

On the track, in a mix of English, Yoruba and Pidgin, Abdulkareem tells Tinubu’s son that his father “is not trying” and that he has made “too many empty promises”. When it comes to insecurity, the ...

On the track, in a mix of English, Yoruba and Pidgin, Abdulkareem tells Tinubu's son that his father "is not trying" and that he has made "too many empty promises". When it comes to insecurity ...

The Nigerian authorities have banned broadcasters from playing the song Tell Your Papa, which criticises the country's leader. Artist Eedris Abdulkareem's lyrics slam President Bola Tinubu and ...

The leaves of Calotropis procera, commonly called giant milkweed, bomu bomu (Yoruba) and Tumfatiya (Hausa), are used as a soup ingredient, in making an alcoholic drink and as an antidote for snake ...

It’s also common to hear Hausa and sometimes even Yoruba, with the latter originating in neighbouring Nigeria. And that’s just a few of them. No wonder British sailors found it easier to ...

Directly opposite, its red and gold lattices arcing over a perimeter of lush greenery towards the sky, the John Randle Centre for Yoruba History and Culture opened last October and is challenging ...