Afenifere reaffirms Oba Olaitan as Leader, rejects forest guards, backs state police.

Afenifere reaffirms Oba Olaitan as Leader, rejects forest guards, backs state police. The Pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has backed the establishment of State Police against the Federal Government-controlled Forest Guards, a development viewed as a palliative too little which also contradicts the very essence of Nigeria federal Union. In a communique signed by the Secretary-General, Sola Ebiseni, after its Monthly General Meeting held at the residence of its Leader, Oba Oladipo Olaitan in Ilesha on Tuesday, the group backed the age long call for State police to frontally addressed the worsening insecurity of lives and property in Nigeria. “Afenifere expressed concerns about the frightening state of insecurity and called for the establishment of State Police in line with true federalism". Afenifere insisted that State Police will work better for our situation rather than the proposed Forest Guards with overriding Federal Command, particularly in our federation where land matters is within exclusive constitutional jurisdiction of states. “We believe that Forest Guard with Federal command is anti-federalism”. While condemning acts of terrorism in the North-central part of the country, the group called for a return to modern agriculture with adequate security for farmers, adding that it would soon establish skill acquisition centres in member states to train youths free of charge. The group also reaffirmed the appointment of Oba Oladipo Olaitan as its new Leader, saying his appointment to the position of Deputy Leader in 2021 which was approved by Pa Reuben Fasoranti after his retirement, has also ensured that the leadership of the Afenifere rotated to the Oyo/Osun axis. Ebiseni further stated that the “general meeting reaffirmed the appointment of Oba Oladipo Olaitan as the new Leader of Afenifere. “Following his retirement as the Leader of Afenifere in April 2021, our revered Leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti handed over to Chief Ayo Adebanjo and appointed the then National Financial Secretary, Oba Oladipo Olaitan as the Deputy Leader, the position he held till the glorious demise of our iconic Leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo on the 14th February 2025. “The significance of this visionary appointment is that since inception in 1951 the leadership of Afenifere now moves out of what looked like rotation between the Ondo/Ekiti and Ogun/Lagos zones to the Oyo/Osun axis. “At the March 2025 General Meeting held at the residence of our late Leader at Isanya-Ogbo, it was Resolved that the Deputy Leader should serve as Leader in acting capacity and shall automatically assume office as the substantive Leader after the burial of our revered Chief Ayo Adebanjo”. In a related development a fraction loyal to President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu led by the retired leader of Afenifere has purportedly declared Chief Olu Falae, a former Finance Minister as Chairman. Reacting to the mischief, Secretary of Afenifere in the US David Adenekan stated categorically that " A man who's mindset of capitalism, the so called Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) as a Minister of Finance under the Military junta, which was antithetical to the welfare ideology of Afenifere is not just fit to lead the group".

Olu Falae unfit to lead Afenifere, his economic ideas contradicts Afenifere welfare ideology, not part of the pyramid leadership left behind by Pa Ayo Adebanjo. - David Adenekan

Chief Olu Falae unfit to lead Afenifere, not part of the pyramid leadership structure intactly left behind by Pa Ayo Adebanjo. - David Adenekan By: Daisi Ogunniyi. The struggle for the leadership of the Yoruba socio-political group has further degenerated with the declaration of Chief Olu Falae, as the factional leader of Pa Reuben Fasoranti group loyal to President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It could be recalled that due to Pa Fasoranti failing health he had nominated Late Chief Ayo Adebanjo to take over the mantle of Afenifere leadership in a letter addressed to both the Caucus and Congress of the group in April 2021, with Oba Oladipupo Olaitan chosen to deputised Pa Adebanjo. However, in a twist of events after the Pa Ayo Adebanjo led Afenifere declared support for the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, a conventional Afenifere principled position for justice, equity and fairness that it was the turn of the Southeastern part of the country to rule Nigeria, Pa Reuben Fasoranti suddenly comes back from his self imposed retirement to drag leadership with Adebanjo after he had a closed door meeting with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the then Presidential candidate of the APC. Political pundits believe Pa Fasoranti renewed claim to leadership of Afenifere was a compromise to contradict and weaken Afenifere's support for Peter Obi and at the same time projects Tinubu as the anointed candidate of the Yoruba socio-political mouthpiece. An unpopular stand that does not resonates with majority of Afenifere members. The struggle for the control of Afenifere continued till the recent passage to glory of Pa Adebanjo. The mainstream Afenifere declared Oba Olaitan as Acting leader at Adebanjo's country home in Isanya Ogbo, Ijebu Ode in March, with a resolution for him to assume full leadership after the burial of Pa Adebanjo which was effected a few days ago. The Fasoranti splinter group loyal to President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has also declared a former Minster of Finance, Chief Olu Falae as Chairman. The Afenifere Diaspora has kicked against the emergence of Falae. In a statement "A Void Succession In A Leadership Vacuum" , A Rejoinder To Olu Falae Emerges New Afenifere Chairman issued by David Adenekan. "It is a void succession in a leadership vacuum indeed! Time will tell, he stated "How would someone who was not part of the pyramid leadership structure that was intactly left behind by Chief Ayo Samuel Adebanjo of blessed memory just come from the blue to assume the leadership of Afenifere, at whose people's instance? What, who, when, how and where was the assembly of delegates that declares him as the new leader of Afenifere? Where is the real structure, apart from political jobbers who are parading themselves as Afenifere". "Suffice it to say, leadership is not declared in a vacuum. A void succession indeed!" This is inapt and gibberish. "This unrepentant Tinubu's acolytes are bent to achieve the uncharitable agenda of their so called pay master, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, PBAT" Adenekan added. " It is not going to work. Why? Afenifere is not about dialectic materialism. A man who's mindset of capitalism, the so called structural adjustment program (SAP) as a minister of finance under the military junta, which was antithetical to the welfare ideology of Afenifere is not just fit to lead the group". "Afenifere is a group that is grounded in a philosophy ideology, couples with strong conviction called welfarism". This is another shenanigans such that has already hit the rock before it arrival. An "unfit leadership cap."

THE SELECTIVE SANCTITY OF SHAME —A Scathing Polemic on Media Hypocrisy and the Tinubu Exception

THE SELECTIVE SANCTITY OF SHAME —A Scathing Polemic on Media Hypocrisy and the Tinubu Exception Aare Amerijoye DOT.B. In the grand amphitheatre of Nigerian politics, where truth is often strangled and falsehood enthroned, where sincerity is banished and hypocrisy paraded with pomp, nothing stings more painfully and dishearteningly than the biased theatre orchestrated by the Nigerian press ,an institution that was once reputed as the last bastion of moral conscience, but now reduced to a mercenary machine of selective scrutiny, operating with calibrated silence and sophisticated cowardice. The audacity of silence, the complicity of compromise, and the editorial prostitution that now define Nigeria’s mainstream media are best illustrated by their deafening hush whenever the name Bola Ahmed Tinubu is whispered or even shouted. Let it be clear and unequivocal: the Nigerian press has now turned itself into an appendage of political manipulation, abandoning its once-honourable duty to inform, investigate, and expose. Today, it performs a shameful choreography of deception, dancing around truth with the elegance of a snake in search of warmth, slithering away from accountability while entwining itself in the comfort of complicity. When Tinubu's name surfaces, the press becomes a sanctified altar where all transgressions are sacrificed for loyalty, not justice, and where the ethics of journalism are substituted with the economics of patronage. If the roles were reversed and it was Atiku Abubakar or Peter Obi whose secondary school of claim came into existence years after their alleged graduation, the media would have gleefully gone on a literary carnage. The headlines would be bloodthirsty; the columnists would dust off their vocabularies of contempt, and public discourse would be drenched in righteous indignation. There would be protests orchestrated by media-driven frenzy. Yet, in the case of Tinubu, this scandalous detail is quietly buried beneath the editorial carpets of complicity. Why? Because it's Tinubu , the man for whom the press sacrifices its integrity upon the altar of favours, contracts, and brown envelopes, and who enjoys a mystifying exemption from the moral codes imposed on others. Were it Atiku or Obi that tampered with their age records, shifting from 1946 to 1952 in a rather amateur performance of chronological acrobatics, the press would have had a field day. There would be syndicated editorials calling for public outcry, documentaries would flood primetime television, and online platforms would gleam with analytical eulogies of disgrace. But because it is Tinubu, the Nigerian press sheathes its sword and hands him a laurel. The double standards are as grotesque as they are glaring , a brazen betrayal of the public trust. If Atiku Abubakar or Peter Obi had presented academic records with names bearing feminine titles, with contradictions as pungent as those from the so-called Chicago State University, with no classmates, no proper transcripts, and even carryovers with no resits or retakes, the media would have crucified them at dawn and incinerated them by dusk. “Forgery!” “Disqualification!” “Disgrace!” would have been the media mantra. But since it is Tinubu, the press offers their silence as incense, their objectivity as sacrifice, and their ethics as burnt offering. Now, ponder deeply: had Atiku or Obi forfeited millions of dollars due to alleged narcotics-related offences, as Bola Ahmed Tinubu did in the United States, they would have been convicted in the courtroom of Nigerian public opinion by a press that once prided itself on probity and fearlessness. Yet, Tinubu walks on water; the press gazes in awe, drenched not in truth but in the murky waters of favours and fear, bathing in silence and drinking from the fountain of selective blindness. The same Nigerian media that should speak truth to power now whispers flattery to corruption. If under the rule of Atiku or Peter Obi, Nigerians were met with the current economic catastrophe , the soaring inflation, the naira’s freefall, the petrol subsidy debacle, the brutal tax regime, and the apocalyptic cost of living , there would have been daily front-page assaults. The press would cry: “Impeach!” “Unfit to Lead!” But under Tinubu, the media becomes a circus of praise-singers. He is christened “Star Boy,” not for his performance but for his immunity from scrutiny and sanctification by omission. This is the media of today: heavily biased, compromised, and prostituted by political lust. Anchormen now read scripts laced with lies; columnists are now conscripts in Tinubu's propaganda war. They masquerade as journalists but are nothing more than pen-pushers for the highest bidder, heralds of hypocrisy and scribes of sycophancy. Let the dead speak. And so, the late Yinka Odumakin, a conscience too noble to be bought, spoke from beyond the grave in his fiery open letter to Bola Ahmed Tinubu , a letter now immortalised by truth and courage, and preserved as a historical indictment. The letter was written and published on October 20, 2020. Odumakin challenged Tinubu's history as a man of multiple faces and fraudulent timelines. “I am Yinka Odumakin, and nobody can say he had known me under any other identity,” he thundered, drawing a clean line between his life of truth and Tinubu’s kaleidoscope of aliases and forgeries. He scoffed at Tinubu’s laughable age claims: “The current governor of Osun is the son of your immediate elder sister and he is 63, while you claim to be 66. Your first wife died recently at 74.” By inference, Odumakin was strongly suggesting that Tinubu was at least born around 1946, which would make him approximately 79 years old today. In a country where mathematics is optional and memory is forbidden, these inconsistencies do not bother the press. Odumakin continued with surgical precision: “There is no school I have attended that my classmates would not come out in droves to say we were together.” Tinubu, on the other hand, is a ghost graduate of ghost institutions. When Government College Ibadan old boys sought to honour him, no one could place his graduating set. The event was cancelled in embarrassment, swallowed by the shame of anonymity. “My parents are not rich, but I am proud of them because from their black pot, my white palp emerged,” said Odumakin, throwing shade at Tinubu’s dubious family claims. Tinubu called one woman “Maami” for political optics, while those who truly knew her children laughed in disbelief and whispered tales of borrowed motherhood. He mocked Tinubu’s rags-to-stolen-riches journey: “When you returned from exile in 1998, you had only the Sunday Adigun house. All four cars you used were borrowed from Ganiyu Solomon. I offered to print your campaign posters at 40% of what others charged. I delivered, and saved you 60%.” That is the anatomy of opportunism, the beginnings of an empire built on borrowed glory. But perhaps most damning was his comment on Tinubu’s legendary greed: “There is hardly any boundary between Lagos State treasury and your private pockets.” The public vault is but a private purse in the reign of Tinubu, and the press watches, blindfolded by indulgence. Odumakin exposed Tinubu’s double life, his alleged betrayal of the June 12 movement, his duplicity in the anti-third term campaign while secretly conspiring with Abacha's remnants. He reminded us how Tinubu described Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi as “Adiye ni Tokunbo, yin agbado fun a pada”, a chicken who turns at the sight of corn. Is that not the metaphor for the Nigerian media today? A gaggle of chickens chasing grains of gold, forgetting their calling and devouring their conscience. Philosopher Immanuel Kant once said, “He who is cruel to truth becomes a slave to delusion.” Nigerian media today has become the wretched slave of delusion, trading truth for contracts and objectivity for brown envelopes, kneeling at the altar of access and dancing to the music of manipulation. Friedrich Nietzsche thundered, “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” That is the tragedy of Nigerian journalism today: its credibility is in ruins, its voice for justice is now for sale, and its integrity auctioned off to the highest bidder. If journalism is the fourth estate of the realm, then today it is a demolished estate, sold for a pot of porridge and fenced with complicity. This generation may forget, but history won’t. The grandchildren of these biased broadcasters and sycophantic scribes will one day ask: “Where were you when truth was bleeding?” And the silence of today shall be the shame of tomorrow. Let it be known and eternally remembered: if Tinubu were Atiku or Obi, he would have been crucified long before INEC ever declared results. But in this democracy of double standards, Tinubu is not only spared, he is sanctified by the sins the press once condemned. As George Orwell said in “Animal Farm”, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” In the press parlance of Nigeria, all politicians are guilty, but some, like Tinubu, are simply too profitable to be held accountable. And that, dear citizens, is the anatomy of a corrupted conscience, and the post-mortem of a prostituted press. Aare Amerijoye DOT.B Director General The Narrative Force.

Nyesom Wike vindictive outbursts exposed him as Nigeria's most querulous politician... a liability to Tinubu's government. - Dele Momodu

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TINUBU... Your Excellency, good evening Sir. I have just read the news here in America that you have stepped into the matter of your cantankerous Minister of FCT, MR NYESOM WIKE who sealed the National Secretariat of the PDP, the biggest rival of your ruling party, APC, and properties of other defaulters in Abuja earlier today. While no one should condone non-compliance of government obligations, government must always restrain itself from vindictive outbursts such as that of Nigeria's most querulous politician who I'm sure is fast becoming a liability to your government. The decision to stop Wike today achieved several points in your favor. We used to think we have two Presidents in Nigeria, TINUBU and WIKE. Now, we know WIKE has a Boss who can checkmate his excesses. How I wished you had stopped his reckless disruption and distraction of the SIM FUBARA government in Rivers State and saved the hapless people from this unfortunate contraption called emergency rule. Nigerians are currently going through so much hardship and pain and you need to rescue them from WIKE's additional burden and insults. WIKE's assignments are far smaller than that of Minister DAVE UMAHI, yet the man is so humble while WIKE subjects Nigerians to his tautological press conferences as if he's running his own Federal government and not under anyone's control. Sir, there can't be two Captains in one ship and I hope WIKE got that message loud and clear from your powerful intervention today... CHIEF DELE MOMODU

OWA ADESUYI HASTRUP: WHEN ‘ATOBATELE’ IS CROWNED SUBSTANTIVE OBA" Olafare Moses

It is no longer news that the good people of the entire Ijesa empire have formally welcomed their new monarch, an astute maritime business magnate and former Deputy Governor of The State of Osun, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adesuyi Hastrup, Ajimoko III as their new Owa Obokun and Paramount ruler of Ijesa Empire. The quality of massive turnout of the Crème De La Crème in the country who graced the occasion last Saturday in Ilesa is a clear attestation to the quality of Personality the handsome fine gentleman; Owa Adesuyi Hastrup enviably possesses. The array of these powerful Nigerians at the event; Former President Obasanjo, Former Vice Presidents Atiku Abubakar and Namadi Sambo, Governors Ademola Adeleke of Osun and Lucky Ayedatiwa of Ondo, former governor of Ogun state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel accompanied by Chief Kola Onadipe, Rev Mother Esther Ajayi, Olorogun Sunny Kuku of the EKO Hospital and former Deputy governor of Lagos State and Otunba FEMI Pedro, to mention but just a few. There great personalities and others not mentioned who graced the occasion not only invited by Governor Adeleke, but also attracted to the event by the personality of Owa Adesuyi Hastrup who himself is among the movers and shakers in Nigeria. IJESA TI L’OBA….. Similar to this coronation event was when Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi,CFR, Ojaja II took his staff of office 10 years ago, in the year 2015 precisely, which was also jam packed by those who owned Nigeria as at then. The the sitting Vice President of Nigeria Professor YEMI Osinbajo SAN accompanied by the then Southwest governors including Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state, Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos state, Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state, Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state and late Isiaka Ajimobi of Oyo state graced the occasion to witness the coronation of the Natural Head of the Oduduwa race( No wonder they all attended in persons) Apart from being the Yoruba(if that’s our true name) number 1 traditional ruler, Ooni Ogunwusi was well connected to these great leaders who graced his occasion either through business endeavours or impactful socialisation. Lest I forget the colossal presence of now President of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who came in the company of the former APC’s National Chairman and Osun state former governor, Chief Bisi Akande and the host governor himself, Ogbeni RAUF Aregbesola. How many men and women of substance can we even remember to mention? General TY Danjuma, his wife Senator Daisy Danjuma and Senato Florence Ita Giwa were all part of the coronation planning committee to ensure everything went well, and it really did. It takes a great man to network great men. I also recall, when the former Ooni Okunade Sijuwade, Olumide II had his 80th birthday celebration in Ile-Ife in the year 2010, I’m not good at forgetting such ‘Manigbagbe(unforgettable) day in history. I saw governors standing up to relinquish their seats for other Very Important Personalities(VIPs) in fact, the then governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun state stood almost throughout the duration of the event attended by almost all the 36 governors in Nigeria, President Yaradua represented by Vice president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, former president Obasanjo accompanied by his wife and daughter; Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, former Head Of State, General Yakubu Gowon who was a Keynote Speaker, the then President Boni Yayi of the Republic of Benni, former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Head of State, General AbduSalami Abubakar, former Secretary General of The United Nations(UN) Dr Kofi Anna, the Asantene of Kumasi Ghana, Otumfor Ossei Tutu II, representives of Queen Elizabeth of England, the Senate President of Nigeria, Senator David Mark, the Almighty Esama of Benin, Sir Dr. Gabriel Igbinedion was chairman of the planning committee with his son, former governor of Edo state, Lucky Igbinedion as a member. An indeed gathering of MEN not the BOYS. So far unbeatable! I also witnessed the coronation of His Imperial Majesty, Oba Akeem Owoade as the Alaafin of Oyo Atiba in Oyo state and I saw the network of important personalities who also grace the epoch occasion; the host governor, Engr. SEYI Makinde, his Deputy Governor, some members of the Oyo state House of Assembly, Commissioners, Local Government chairmen and their honourable councillors, Honourable member representing Oyo Federal Constituency at the National House of Representatives in Abuja and son of the immediate past Alaafin of Oyo Atiba, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, Honourable Akeem Adeyemi popularly called “SKIMEH” Senator Yinus Akintunde representing OYO in Abuja who was chairman planning committee, his predecessor, Senator Mulikat Sumonu and the Honourable Minister of Power who represented President Bola Tinubu, Chief BAYO Adelabu. The word ,’Atobatele’ connotes a man with a kingly personality of colossal influence and great affluence. The new Owa Obokun of Ijesa Empire, His Imperial Majesty, Owa Adesuyi Hastrup, Ajimoko III was perfectly an ‘Atobatele’ He was a very successful businessman before becoming the Osun state Deputy Governor in 1990. He has since returned to his private life and private sector of the economy, maritime sector in particular where he has emerged as a leader. He is someone who has so far conducted himself very kingly but in humbleness and without publicly. UJESA TI L’OBA YEE RAN. It is without prophecy to know that Ijesaland will begin thank the Almighty Olodumare for the type of king they now have in the person of the new Owa Adesuyi Hastrup. I am not a seer but I can see this coming to happen soon. The king is stupendously rich and ready to use not only his money but also his connections for the desirable development of Ijesa land. I even heard he has already started. BABA RE A GBE O!!! Signed: Otunba Moses Olafare, Lowa Ada Compound, Okerewe, Ile-Ife.

Governor Adeleke celebrates Ogeni Rauf Aregbesola at 68

GOVERNOR ADELEKE SALUTES FORMER OSUN GOVERNOR, OGBENI RAUF AREGBESOLA AT 68 The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has congratulated a former Governor in the state, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, on the occasion of his 68th birthday, applauding his life of service and impacts. Governor Adeleke salutes Ogbeni Aregbesola's courage and conviction, which stands him out as a politician with a difference, acknowledging his pronounced contributions to the progress that Osun state has made so far. The Governor commends the ex-Interior Minister for giving a good account of himself in the various public offices entrusted him by offering impactful service deliveries, praising the celebrant's cherished history of dedicated services to Osun state and Nigeria as a whole as Governor and Minister respectively. "I celebrate my dear Egbon, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, as he marks his 68th birthday today. Ogbeni Aregbesola is a man endowed with an incredible sense of purpose, utilising his God-given knowledge and energy to initiatives that will impact lives and transform societies," the Governor noted in a congratulatory message. "Regardless of our political differences, I hold Ogbeni Aregbesola in the highest esteem because of his contributions to the progress made in Osun state so far. I join family, friends and wishers to honour his many impacts, particularly in the area of creating opportunities for young people." Governor Adeleke prays "that Almighty Allah bless Ogbeni Aregbesola with more celebrations and enjoy more years in good health and sound mind to contribute more to the growth and development of Osun state." Signed: Mallam Olawale Rasheed, Spokesperson to the Osun State Governor

For African Liberation Day, we say: Abolish NATO! US/AFRICOM out of Africa NOW!

FOR AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY, WE SAY: ABOLISH NATO! US/AFRICOM OUT OF of AFRICA NOW! Deja Gaston. May 16, 2025 This May 25 marks 62 years since the founding of the Organization of Africa Unity and the commencement of the pan-African holiday, African Liberation Day. For masses of African people, this holiday is a reaffirmation and commitment to the total liberation and unification of Africa under the banner of socialism. It is a reminder of the victories and struggles against colonialism, imperialism, and neo-colonialism which continue to intervene in Africa’s development toward sovereignty, security, and self-determination today. As many social movements and political organizations prepare to mobilize this month, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will host its Spring 2025 Parliamentary Assembly in Dayton, Ohio between May 23-26. This marks 22 years since NATO last hosted a summit in the United States. With NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly falling on African Liberation Day, it’s critical to understand how the U.S./AFRICOM and NATO relationship towards Africa is defined as one of intervention, regime change, bombing campaigns, resource extraction and much more. Socialism in the 20th century The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution broke the yoke of Tsarist imperial ambition forging a multinational state led by workers and peasants. This revolution shattered the imperialist idea that economically backward and culturally repressed peoples were incapable of any such movement let alone have the ability to govern for themself on the foundations of a socialist society. The Bolshevik Revolution unleashed new horizons for Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Movements for national liberation, decolonization and the construction of socialism grew in resistance to the centuries-long plunder by Western imperialist nations. This sweeping revolutionary fervor was especially prominent by the close of World War II. In 1945, the Soviet Red Army defeated fascism — liberating Europe from Nazi Germany. The Vietnamese, under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, declared independence from French colonial rule, just hours after Japanese surrender. Workers and peasants established the People’s Republic of China (1949) while Ghana was the first African country to gain independence from its colonial ruler (1957). The culmination of anticolonial struggles is what led to the famous 1955 Bandung Conference of African and Asian nations that called for sovereignty and peace, and planted the seeds for an international economic order based on developmental cooperation. NATO: An ‘offensive’ military alliance At the end of World War II, the United States stood on the ashes of former Western imperialist powers as a victor. While Europe’s capitalist economies lay in financial ruin, the U.S. began to reconstruct an international world order that ensured U.S. hegemony for both the Global North and South. The Bretton Woods Conference (1944) was a critical component in creating the International Monetary Fund and World Bank — finance institutions that pegged countries’ currencies to the U.S. dollar. Confronting the rise of U.S. hegemony and the imperialist camp were the Soviet Union and its allies. It is in this context that NATO was founded in 1949 as a “defensive alliance” against the supposed “Soviet threat” facing the West. It grouped major imperialist powers together with the Anglo-American core comprised of the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. The initial European core was France, Italy, Portugal, Luxembourg, Iceland, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, and Denmark (Germany joined in 1955). Despite the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, NATO – led by the United States – has increasingly repurposed itself to contain the Russian Federation. It’s worth noting that the Russian Federation is capitalist but remains independent of Western powers. Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and President George H.W. Bush famously assured Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 that NATO would not move “one inch eastward.” Washington has since expanded NATO over time by incorporating 19 former Eastern Bloc countries with five formerly part of the USSR. Motivating NATO’s expansion and campaigns of intervention is the need to expand U.S. imperialist influence in geostrategic regions across Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. This has led to devastating campaigns under the pretext of “humanitarian intervention” in former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. AFRICOM: an imperialist tool for U.S. and NATO Hegemony The starkest example of this expansion has been on the African continent. The U.S. and NATO have sought to utilize the world’s second-largest continent, with a population exceeding 1.5 billion, as its breeding ground for a New Cold War against Russia and China. In a 2024 Meeting of NATO Ministers of Defense, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg paternalistically referred to Africa as its “Southern neighborhood” when expressing ‘concern over Russia and China’s growing influence in Africa’. In 2007, the U.S. Africa Command was established “in response to our expanding partnerships and interests in Africa.” AFRICOM’s expansion today consists of at least 29 bases across 15 African countries and maintains a presence in about 38 African countries. This military network covers 60% of the nations on the continent. AFRICOM claims to “work with African partners for a secure and prosperous Africa,” yet this very same institution is responsible for turning countries like Libya – once the highest-ranked African country on the UN Human Development Index – into a failed state with constant civil war, return to open slave markets, and armed militias terrorizing civilians. As of May 8, 2025, AFRICOM under General Michael Langley, stated they will be on track for a “record high” of airstrike numbers in Somalia, exceeding the 63 strikes it launched in the country in 2019. Amnesty International and the International Committee of the Red Cross have recorded dozens of civilians that were killed by U.S. airstrikes while AFRICOM reports minimal to zero in official reports. Washington’s rhetoric of ensuring a “stable and prosperous Africa”’ is undermined in their own explanation for the creation of AFRICOM: “Allies and partners are critical in realizing our shared vision … maintaining superiority over competitors, … and protecting U.S. interests.” It is no wonder that the growing anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements in places like the Sahel and the formation of the Alliance of the Sahel states (AES) ring alarms for U.S. imperialist interests in the region. Burkina Faso President, Ibrahim Traore, exemplifies the defense of Africa’s sovereignty. In reaction to the growing popularity and rise of the AES, U.S. General and commander of AFRICOM Michael Langely accused Traore’s government of nationalizing gold to steal the reserves to “sustain his military rule.” The strong backlash to Langely’s remarks prompted the general to issue an apology to the young Burkinabe president. The U.S. and NATO’s attitude towards the continent has been rightfully condemned by several heads of state and the masses of people for disrespecting the sovereignty of African nations. AFRICOM serves to maintain U.S. hegemonic presence across the continent by bringing in NATO members to exercise restraint on any African country that dares to assert economic independence. Abolish NATO and AFRICOM! Africa for the West has been a relationship of resource extraction, overexploitation, infantilization, and weaponization for geopolitical interests. As more African nations begin to assert their sovereignty and revitalize the anti-colonial, anti-imperialist spirit of their predecessors, the US and Western Europe become more isolated. African nations are determining their political and economic relationships on the basis of win-win cooperation. As NATO prepares for its 2025 Parliamentary Assembly in Dayton, Ohio, it is imperative that people of conscience across the state of Ohio reject their presence. Veterans, students, workers, and organizers across the state and region are mobilizing to Dayton to reject NATO’s presence. For African Liberation Day, it is our duty as those living inside U.S. imperialism to commit ourselves to the fight against any and all tools of imperialism! Together we will: Oppose war, militarism, and corporate greed Build a movement of resistance against the existential threat posed by NATO aggression Fight for the unity of all oppressed people to assert sovereignty and self-determination across the globe! The people say: Stop the endless wars! Abolish NATO and AFRICOM! Liberation News Newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation

Alaafin of Oyo visit to the Sultan of Sokoto, before visiting Ooni of Ife, dashed hopes of Alaafin stool retrieval & returned to its originating civilization.

Alaafin is a vassal of Sokoto Caliphate, not of Ooni of Ife! The new Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, visit to the Sultan of Sokoto, the head of the Afro-Arabic civilization, before visiting Ooni of Ife, the leader of the Indigenous African civilization of South and Middlebelt, dashed renewed hopes that Oyo Alaafin stool has been retrieved and returned to its originating civilization. Instead of going to Ife to collect the Oranmiyan Sword of office, he went to Sokoto. The hidden civilizational subterfuge of 200yrs is now being revealed. In 1835, Oyo Empire was destroyed by Afro-Arabic civilizational imperialists. Two years later, in 1837, the Ilorin Afro-Arabic civilization imperialists that took over from Afonja enthroned the Atiba lineage as Alaafin of Oyo, with a caveat that all subsequent Alaafins had to be Muslim that are subjective to Afro-Arabic civilization, thereby overriding Oyo Alaafin subservience to Ife that created it. Before the beginning of the end of Oyo Empire, Oyo could not verbally or militarily assault Ife, but by 1849 Ile Ife was invaded by Oyo-Ibadan armies while never challenging the Afro-Arabic civilization that destroyed it and took over Yorubalands in Ilorin and Oyo Ile. If not for the Ekiti Parapo, the philosophical and spiritual fountain of the Original African civilization, the Ibadan Oyos would have captured the entire sphere for the Afro-Arabic civilization. Most Orisas, the cyclical spiritual and philosophical essences, of the Original African civilization - Orunmila, Esu, Ogun, Osun, Osanyin etc all originated from the Ekiti-Ijesha-Akure axis, making them the last bulwark of civilizational defence. Despite the defeat of the Oyo-Ibadan Afro-Arabic civilizational imperialists by the Ekiti, the Oyos continued to undermine their originating civilization, claiming supremacy through epistemicide, fighting proxy wars through the likes of Modakeke, and continuously disparaging the Ooni of Ife till today. In 2019 ASHE Foundation called the late Alaafin Adeyemi to order when he attacked Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi for rightly claiming that Igbos and all indigenous Africans came from Ife or shared the same genetic and cultural values. Alaafin Adeyemi falsely claimed that Yorubas never had any relationship with their Igbo neighbors for the tens of thousands years that they had been neighbors until the advent of the British colonial Nigeria. Instead, he claimed we only had relationships with the Northern Afro-Arabic civilization, a ploy to disintegrate the Original African civilization in favor of their Afro-Arabic conquerors. The corruption of Oyo that eventually led to its 1835 final collapse started with the 1520s Nupe Islamists invasion that chased the Royal court to Igboho in Ibariba, a Fulani subgroup that mixed and took over indigenous African traditional institutions. The 1415 European invasion of Ceuta Morocco pushed Afro-Arabians towards the core of the indigenous African civilization in what became Nigeria. Coming down the River Niger, they took over Hausa, Gur and Nupe lands before entering Oyo, where Ife civilizational stock was slowly withered down with Afroasiatic migrants that first come as traders then clerics that engineer Jihad revolutions to take over power. The painful part is that those called Yoruba have been decivilized by the British colonists to keep them mentally enslaved in order not to understand what was really happening in the world. Yorubas and other Original Africans were decivilized because they could no longer identify their civilization, being the common genetic and cultural origins and values they shared with other tribes. The Original African civilization is a continuum of dialects and cultural values that spread out of Ife to Southern Africa. There are four civilizations in the world - Original African, European, Afroasiatic and Asian. For a civilization to advance progressively, its people must have a high collective intelligence, meaning a higher percentage of the people know, understand and accept their collective narrative from origins to collective aspirations. Though Yorubas and Igbos, the two most populous Indigenous African peoples, have one of the worlds highest individual intelligence ratios, they have very low collective intelligence due to the Abrahamic epistemicide or debasement of their traditional knowledge systems necessary for a narrative on origins. Starting with slavery, when Europeans dumped over 400,000 guns on our coast to forment war and war captives to be used as slaves, those who took the weapons to build empires like Oyo, Benin, Igala and others, were later used to balkanize the Ife civilization into tribes during colonization. The beginning of British colonization with the 1861 capture of Lagos, and most important the translation of the English Bible into Oyo dialect was the beginning of a new 165 yr cycle of consciousness based on coloniality that derailed and balkanized the Ifa-Afa-Iha-Fa-Efa Original African civilization whose source was Ife, into smaller divisive tribes. As an Original African civilizational bloc with high collective intelligence, they would have easily challenged both Western European and Afroasiatic civilizational imperialism and colonization. So the British choose a single dialect in each subregion to be the standard language of their new tribal constructs. The Onitsha dialect was chosen to be the standard language of those to be identified as Igbo. Up until then, all Igbo monarchs called Obi wore crowns that could be traced to Ife Odua via Edo. With the two most populous Original African subregions at the core of the civilization divided into tribes, the center could no longer hold and things fell apart as the rest of the civilization was broken into 2240 ethnicities by the European colonists. The replacement of the Original African civilization perceptive with Pan Tribalistic perspectives was not only done with the Bible, but institutionalized with the cutting off of over 300 Original African groups to add them to the Afro-Arabic Northern Protectorate in 1914, and the breakup of the Original African Southern Protectorate into West and East regions to pit Yoruba and Igbo against each other. Due to the fear of imposing Afro-Arabic civilizational imperialists, Original Africans adopted a Christianity shield with the hope that it will protect them from Afroasiatic cultural annihilation, ignorant that both Afroasiatic and European civilizations were products of the Abrahamic civilization that overwhelmed and adapted the Original African civilization in Egypt, Original Africans frontier empire. In Egypt, the Coptic Christians handed over the Egyptian army to invading Afro-Arabic armies for a share in the rulership and exploitation of Original Africans in Egypt, which ultimately led to the annihilation of Original African Egyptians after which the Islamists routed the Coptic Christians that enabled them. The Christian umbrella adopted by South and Middlebelt peoples can never unite and empower Original Africans to liberation. Never. When push comes to shove, Afroasiatic and European civilizationalists will fall back on shared genetic and cultural traits from Abraham as opposed to Oduduwa civilization split by regional prebendalism. The Christian hierarchy can never adopt an all out war against Afro-Arabic herdsmen since that is how Abraham and his descendants took Black Egypt and turned North Africa into light-skinned land. Until Original Africans are recivilized to increase their collective intelligence to enable them unite as a civilization, they will continue to have their economic and political development arrested. The Original African tribes will never have the numbers to challenge for power unless their unhinged politicians agree to the Northern Afro-Arabic hegemons and European powers. Oyo and Iwo monarchs will continue to sabotage any efforts that brings the South and Middlebelt Original African peoples together. Some apologists argue that the new Alaafin was just ignorant and not subversive of the Original African civilization by visiting the Sultan of Sokoto via the Jagaban (Chief Warrior) of the Borgu, Fulani subgroup. They say its just the normal quest for money and power. This might be true but it also brings the weakness of the Original African civilization led by Ooni of Ife to focus. If we had not been colonized and decivilized, most importantly if we had rebuilt our civilizational economics, the Ooni of Ife and the rest of the paramount monarchs of the civilization, should have called the New Alaafin indoors and given him billions to help him settle into power. But just as we can't retain our graduates, assets and alliances from straying into other spheres due to economic power, the civilizational conscious Northern Afro-Arabians rushed financial and political help to secure the Alaafin on their side like the Oluwo of Iwo, who has taken every opportunity to disparage Orisas and other tenets of the Indigenous African civilization. In a previous article written that welcomed the new Alaafin for being chosen by Ifa, it was pointed out that this is the beginning of a new 165 year cycle as Olokun moves into the house of Ogun, ending the cycle that started in 1861 when the Islamic reorganization of Alaafin rites led to the Ijaye war and ultimately the sixteen year Kiriji War, the longest civil war over the conscience of the Yoruba and Indigenous African civilization. The question is should the Yorubas expect another war to either be liberated or annihilated from the claws of the Afro-Arabic and Western imperialists, both who are sires of the Abrahamic civilization. The answer is in the script written by the Universe with a plot of Olokun and Obaluaye move to Ogun, Oya to Shango house, while Shango moves to Esu house. Prince Justice Faloye, President ASHE Foundation think tank.

BARRISTER TUNDE OGALA (SAN) SHOULD LET INTEGRITY AND TRUTH REIGN OVER ELECTORAL TRAVERSTY*- Olushola Matthew

A concerned member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Mr. Olushola Matthew has admonished the party Lagos State Electoral Committee Chairman to allow integrity and truth prevail over and above the recent electoral heist in the state where unpopular candidates are imposed on party members. In a plea letter to Barr. Ogala (SAN) which was equally sent to President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu among others Olushola Matthew wrote "with a heavy heart and a deep sense of concern—not just as a citizen and stakeholder in the democratic process, but as one who has for many years admired " the SAN steadfast reputation as a man of impeccable integrity, legal brilliance, and political maturity. " Your public service and professional contributions over the years have projected you as a man of honour, one who values transparency, equity, and the sanctity of process. It is on this basis that many, myself included, welcomed your appointment as Chairman of the Lagos APC Electoral Committee with hope and high expectation" Matthew said. However, the just concluded APC primary elections in Lagos State have thrown up a deeply troubling narrative—one that, unfortunately, casts a shadow over your otherwise distinguished record. The reports and firsthand accounts of irregularities, manipulation, and brazen disregard for the voices of the grassroots have created a serious crisis of confidence in the process and in those who oversaw it. " While we commend your committee for ensuring that the mandate in Badagry Central was allowed to stand, we are compelled to ask: why was the same principle not extended to Olorunda and Badagry West LCDA? Why was Mr. Ade Balogun, who polled 18 out of 27 delegate votes, denied his clear mandate? Why was Mrs. Remmy, who secured 13 out of 25 votes, not acknowledged as the rightful winner?" he opined These are not isolated cases. Similar violations were reported in over 80% of the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas across Lagos State. This pattern suggests a coordinated effort to override the democratic will of party members, replacing genuine outcomes with manufactured results. All of this occurred under your leadership. Barrister Ogala, seeing the verified delegates protesting, the videos circulating, the print media stories, and the public outcry for justice across multiple platforms and localities—how does this make you feel? Are you truly at ease with your conscience? Are you not concerned about what this entire episode is doing to your name, your integrity, and how people will remember your stature and legacy? " Barrister, this is not an accusation made lightly. It is a passionate and principled call to accountability. Your name has stood as a symbol of lawful conduct and ethical probity. But the silence surrounding these electoral injustices is fast eroding that hard-earned credibility" If indeed you were pressured or your role was undermined as widely speculated, now is the time to speak out. The truth, no matter how delayed, is always more honourable than silence in the face of injustice. The people deserve to know what truly transpired. Party members deserve honesty. And those whose mandates were stolen deserve justice. "You still have the power to right this wrong—not only by helping to restore the mandates unjustly taken but by publicly dissociating yourself from any act that compromises your integrity. This would be a bold and admirable step, and one that history will remember with favour" Mathew enjoined Barrister Ogala, I appeal to you: do not allow your legacy to be defined by this dark moment. Do not continue to lend your name to processes that contradict the very principles you've long represented. Reconsider future roles that might taint your name further, and take this opportunity to reaffirm your commitment to fairness and justice by coming clean and standing for truth. "The conscience of our democracy is at stake. And so is the soul of your reputation" the statement added

ESE KAKOR WAS REMOVED FROM OFFICE, DECLARED AN IMPOSTOR BY COURT TWO YEARS AGO - Otunba Fola Ogunmefun, NBM of Africa President declared*

ESE KAKOR WAS REMOVED FROM OFFICE, DECLARED AN IMPOSTOR BY COURT TWO YEARS AGO - Otunba Fola Ogunmefun, NBM of Africa President declared The Neo - Black Movement of Africa (NBM) has distanced itself from a recent live interview by an expelled member of the group, one Ese Chukwudi Kakor and Kevin Agboko self acclaimed President and Secretary of the organisation respectively. Ese Kakor was said to have been removed from office in 2023 due to breach of the organisation constitution, corruption, causing disunity and dictatorship. In a statement issued and signed by the National President of NBM of Africa, Otunba Fola Ogunmefun, the group said " the leadership of NBM of Africa Worldwide, under the authority of the Board of Trustees (BOT) and the outcome of the Lekki Convention 2023, wishes to officially dissociate the Movement from the public statements and actions of Mr. Ese Kakor, who no longer holds any leadership role within the organisation" The press statement becomes imperative due to "widespread backlash and misrepresentation of the organisation’s values during an Arise TV interview where Mr. Kakor and a self-proclaimed secretary made inflammatory claims regarding the organisation’s involvement in Edo State political affairs and infrastructure development". Thus, NBM of Africa distance herself from all baseless political accusations while it affirms support for lawful governance. It could be recalled during the televised interview that Mr. Kakor accused the Edo State Government of using NBM-affiliated individuals as political thugs— "a claim we firmly reject as false and damaging". He further claimed that NBM had undertaken school renovation projects within the state without producing any proof or government-backed authorisation, prompting a swift and firm rebuttal from the office of the Edo State Governor, which warned of legal consequences for misrepresentation. Otunba Fola Ogunmefun stated that "NBM of Africa is a Non-partisan, Pan-Africanist socio-cultural organisation rooted in justice, discipline, intellectual development, and humanitarian service. "We do not associate with any acts of violence, criminality, or cult-related activities. And we do not endorse any false or unauthorized public relations stunts that mislead the public or undermine government authority". " The general public and media outlets are hereby informed that Mr. Ese Kakor was officially removed from office by the BOT after multiple constitutional breaches. His tenure was declared null and void, and the court has since affirmed the Lekki Convention, which ushered in the current legitimate leadership structure led by my humble self, Otunba Fola Ogunmefun, as the National Head, and Dr. Eweka as the National Chairman" . the statement added The group president Otunba Fola Ogunmefun opined that "Any attempt by Mr. Kakor or his associates to speak or act on behalf of NBM constitutes a fraudulent misrepresentation and a violation of court orders." "NBM of Africa fully aligns with the anti-cultism stance of the Edo State Government led by Governor Monday Okpebholo. We support the constitutional duty of every state government to secure life and property" However, "we believe strongly in diplomatic engagement, not confrontation. As such, the current leadership is preparing a formal communication and clarification brief to be submitted to the Edo State Government, reaffirming our commitment to peace, lawfulness, and positive youth empowerment" Otunba Fola Ogunmefun said " We condemn in totality any act or utterance that has painted the organisation in a bad light or put its members at risk of government sanction. We appeal to the government to distinguish between the authentic leadership and those acting outside the law for personal gains" The group make a passionate appeal to the media "We respectfully urge bloggers, media outlets, and the wider public to verify the authenticity of any public statement claiming to originate from the NBM of Africa. Only messages from this office, as duly recognized by the BOT and in accordance with the constitution, should be accepted as official communication" "NBM of Africa is undergoing deep internal restructuring and is committed to restoring the dignity, discipline, and democratic values that once made it an exemplary body. Our movement must not be destroyed by individual ego, ambition, or criminal misrepresentation. We reaffirm our support for the fight against cultism, criminal violence, and disinformation in all its forms. As law-abiding citizens and patriots, we will continue to work within legal and democratic frameworks to uplift the organisation, the community, and our nation" . Otunba Fola Ogunmefun gave out officialnbmleadership@gmail.com as the group official Email, and for Press Inquiries, Confirmations or Official Statements