Oodua Peoples Congress – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com Breaking News, Nigeria News and Top Stories Wed, 27 Sep 2023 19:23:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.theinfostride.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cropped-The-InfoStride-Favicon-150x150.png Oodua Peoples Congress – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com 32 32 OPC Demands Justice For Late Rapper, Says MohBad Should Have Run To Them https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-demands-justice-for-late-rapper-says-mohbad-should-have-run-to-them/ https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-demands-justice-for-late-rapper-says-mohbad-should-have-run-to-them/#respond Wed, 27 Sep 2023 19:22:09 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=355620 The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has lamented the death of the Nigerian Rapper, Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba (known professionally as MohBad), who died recently at the age of 27, saying, that if he had opened up to the group about his travails, he would have been kept safe from his attackers. In a message of sympathy [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-demands-justice-for-late-rapper-says-mohbad-should-have-run-to-them/feed/ 0 Electricity: OPC Urges Tinubu To Stop Discos’ Plan over Tariff Increase, calls It Anti-People Move To Discredit New Govt https://www.theinfostride.com/electricity-opc-urges-tinubu-to-stop-discos-plan-over-tariff-increase-calls-it-anti-people-move-to-discredit-new-govt/ https://www.theinfostride.com/electricity-opc-urges-tinubu-to-stop-discos-plan-over-tariff-increase-calls-it-anti-people-move-to-discredit-new-govt/#respond Mon, 17 Jul 2023 07:26:18 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=350959 The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has expressed deep concern regarding the proposed escalation of electricity tariffs by Distribution Companies (DISCOs). They condemn this action as being detrimental to the welfare of the people, oppressive, unwarranted, and a deliberate attempt to undermine the new administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Urging Tinubu to kill the DISCO’s [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/electricity-opc-urges-tinubu-to-stop-discos-plan-over-tariff-increase-calls-it-anti-people-move-to-discredit-new-govt/feed/ 0 OPC hails President-Elect Tinubu and counsels Him on Unity, Federalism, Petrol https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-hails-president-elect-tinubu-and-counsels-him-on-unity-federalism-petrol/ https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-hails-president-elect-tinubu-and-counsels-him-on-unity-federalism-petrol/#respond Tue, 07 Mar 2023 08:43:47 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=342899 The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has sent a congratulatory message to Nigeria’s President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, urging him to justify his election by delivering the dividends of democracy to all the people. Noting that Tinubu’s victory would bring some measure of pride to those who made sacrifices in the struggle for the June 12, [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-hails-president-elect-tinubu-and-counsels-him-on-unity-federalism-petrol/feed/ 0 OPC Commits To Peaceful Elections, Says Non-Indigenes Should Vote Without Fear In Lagos And Throughout Yoruba Land https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-commits-to-peaceful-elections-says-non-indigenes-should-vote-without-fear-in-lagos-and-throughout-yoruba-land/ https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-commits-to-peaceful-elections-says-non-indigenes-should-vote-without-fear-in-lagos-and-throughout-yoruba-land/#respond Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:13:07 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=341098 The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has called for Nigerians to see the coming general elections as a routine contest among brothers without fear of violence. Speaking in Lagos amidst reports in the social media that some Yoruba self-determination groups had put machinery in motion to unleash violence on non-indigenes in Lagos and the South-West, OPC [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-commits-to-peaceful-elections-says-non-indigenes-should-vote-without-fear-in-lagos-and-throughout-yoruba-land/feed/ 0 OPC distances itself from Ojota Crisis, demands Freedom for kidnapped Edo Train Passengers https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-distances-itself-from-ojota-crisis-demands-freedom-for-kidnapped-edo-train-passengers/ https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-distances-itself-from-ojota-crisis-demands-freedom-for-kidnapped-edo-train-passengers/#respond Mon, 09 Jan 2023 15:23:35 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=339393 The President of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, has distanced the socio-cultural organisation from the unrest that reportedly broke out between police and suspected Yoruba nation agitators. Afolabi said that the organisation’s initial investigations showed that no member of OPC was involved in the disturbances of today Monday and none had fallen [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-distances-itself-from-ojota-crisis-demands-freedom-for-kidnapped-edo-train-passengers/feed/ 0 OPC Marks Founder, Dr Fasehun’s 4th-Year Transition, Says It Is Yet To Adopt Any Presidential Candidate For 2023 Elections https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-marks-founder-dr-fasehuns-4th-year-transition-says-it-is-yet-to-adopt-any-presidential-candidate-for-2023-elections/ https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-marks-founder-dr-fasehuns-4th-year-transition-says-it-is-yet-to-adopt-any-presidential-candidate-for-2023-elections/#respond Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:49:30 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=337073 The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has said that its Late Founder, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, if he had been alive, would have kicked at the current political dispensation under which citizens suffered socio-economic hardship and insecurity. OPC national executives, led by the President Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, spoke after a meeting in Lagos to mark the fourth [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/opc-marks-founder-dr-fasehuns-4th-year-transition-says-it-is-yet-to-adopt-any-presidential-candidate-for-2023-elections/feed/ 0 Police raid Badoo Cultist Group Hideouts, arrest over 100 https://www.theinfostride.com/police-raid-badoo-cultist-group-hideouts-arrest-over-100/ Sat, 01 Jul 2017 23:32:11 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=170376 Men of the Lagos State Police Command in conjunction with the Oodua People’s Congress-OPC, and Local vigilante groups have stormed the hideouts of notorious cultist group “Badoo”, arresting over one hundred suspected members. Our source in the Police revealed to us in anonymity that the arrests are connected to the recent closed-door meeting held between [...]

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]]> Lagos Police Command in Closed-Door Meeting with OPC over Cultists, Kidnappers in Ikorodu https://www.theinfostride.com/lagos-police-command-in-closed-door-meeting-with-opc-over-cultists-kidnappers-in-ikorodu/ Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:29:52 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=170145 Top authorities in the Lagos Police Command have summoned an emergency stakeholders meeting with the leaders of Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) led by its National Leader, Otunba Gani Adams and other vigilante groups. The meeting as our source revealed to us, is geared towards combatting incessant kidnapping and cultism attacks in Ikorodu axis of the [...]

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]]> O’odua Nationalist Coalition (ONAC) Calls For Separation https://www.theinfostride.com/oodua-nationalist-coalition-onac-calls-for-separation/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:07:25 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=168176 The O’odua Nationalist Coalition (ONAC), a pan Yoruba group, has called for the creation of a separate nation for the indigenous Yoruba people. The coalition, made up of 18 Yoruba groups, issued a statement over the weekend, calling for a break away from the Nigerian republic to create a separate country for the Yoruba people [...]

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]]> Yoruba People Feel More Secure With OPC Providing Than Nigeria Police – Governor Mimiko https://www.theinfostride.com/yoruba-people-feel-more-secure-with-opc-providing-than-nigeria-police-governor-mimiko/ Sun, 27 Sep 2015 14:56:05 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=101186 Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko has said that Yoruba land remained better protected by members of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC) than by the Nigeria police. The governor stated this at the 80th birthday celebration of OPC founder, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, in Lagos on Saturday. “You founded OPC. Today, I tell you in Yoruba land [...]

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]]> Falae’s Abduction: OPC Warns Fulani Herdsmen Not To Abuse Yoruba Hospitality https://www.theinfostride.com/falaes-abduction-opc-warns-fulani-herdsmen-not-to-abuse-yoruba-hospitality/ Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:49:43 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=100602 The National Coordinator of Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, has issued a stern warning to the abductors of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, describing the incident as a sin against humanity. In a statement issued in Lagos, Tuesday, the factional leader of the Yoruba group‎ said the era [...]

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]]> Chief Olu Falae’s Abduction: OPC Launches A Manhunt To Rescue Him https://www.theinfostride.com/chief-olu-falaes-abduction-opc-launches-a-manhunt-to-rescue-him/ Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:08:02 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=100507 The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) Founder, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has called for the immediate release of Chief Olu Falae, who was kidnapped on Monday in Akure, Ondo State, on his 77th birthday. Fasehun who was also born on September 21 like Falae, but three years older than the politician, said in Lagos yesterday that he [...]

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]]> #Nigeria > Obasanjo And Tinubu gave Gani Adams Wings, Deserve His Insults – Dr. Fasehun https://www.theinfostride.com/nigeria-obasanjo-tinubu-gave-gani-adams-wings-deserve-his-insults-fasehun/ Sun, 06 Sep 2015 11:30:14 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/09/nigeria-obasanjo-tinubu-gave-gani-adams-wings-deserve-his-insults-fasehun/ The Founder, O’odua Peoples Congress, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has said the recent spate of insults hurled by the national coordinator of the group, Chief Gani Adams against former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is well-deserved. According to Fasehun, the duo gave Adams the wings with which he is [...]

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]]> We May Drag NNPC To Court Over 1.9bn Naira Debt – Dr. Frederick Fasehun https://www.theinfostride.com/we-may-drag-nnpc-to-court-over-n1-9bn-debt-opc/ Sun, 19 Jul 2015 20:15:14 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/07/we-may-drag-nnpc-to-court-over-n1-9bn-debt-opc/ The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) yesterday dropped the hint that it may sue the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over its failure to pay its N1.9 billion debt for the protection of pipelines contract, which was cancelled over a month ago. The OPC founder, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, who disclosed this in a chat with reporters, [...]

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]]> After Failing To Give Jonathan Six Million Votes In South-West, Gani Adams Hails Buhari, Says He’s Nigeria’s Abraham Lincoln https://www.theinfostride.com/after-failing-to-give-jonathan-six-million-votes-in-swest-gani-adams-hails-buhari-says-hes-nigerias-abraham-lincoln/ Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:15:14 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/04/after-failing-to-give-jonathan-six-million-votes-in-swest-gani-adams-hails-buhari-says-hes-nigerias-abraham-lincoln/ The Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, on Wednesday sent a congratulatory message to President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, over his victory at the polls. The National Coordinator of the Congress, Chief Gani Adams, in the congratulatory message, said the success of Mr. Buhari at the election across the country proved he is the choice of the people. The [...]

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