One person was allegedly shot dead, yesterday, when officers of Amotekun Corps, in Ekiti State, clashed with traders at the popular Atikankan area of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. Trouble reportedly started after the Amotekun officers were trying to relocate the traders from the Atikankan area of Ado Ekiti to a new area allocated to them by the government at …

The Amotekun Corps in Osun State said it had secured the release of a man kidnapped from a Fulani settlement at Ago-Igbira, Ila-Orangun area of the state. The Amotekun Commander in the state, Brig. General Bashir Adewinmbi (rtd.), made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Osogbo, the state capital. Adewinmbi said the victim, Muhammed Jubril was released when …

…IGP warns Amotekun, Ebube Agu, others against involvement in 2023 elections Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu has accused the Federal Government of bias in refusing to allow the Western Nigeria Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun Corps, to carry sophisticated firearms. Akeredolu said that the Federal Government has granted approval to the Katsina State security outfit, which is …

In Governor Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu’s Ondo State, wonders, it seems, will never end! Thrice within a space of two months, terrorist attacks were reported in Owo, the governor’s home town. This is apart from such attacks in other parts of the state. Is Ondo State slipping into the category of “failed states”? The first of the attacks, on 5 Junewas …

Operatives of the Ondo State Security Network Agency (well known as Amotekun), have intercepted another 168 suspected invaders. They were allegedly found in two trucks with dangerous charms. This came barely three days after the corps arrested 151 suspected invaders with dangerous charms concealed inside bags of rice in Sango area, along Akure-Ado Expressway. The Commander of Ondo Amotekun, Adetunji …

I am from Owo. I was born and bred there. Readers of my columns must have known that by now.  My primary school, modern school and secondary school were all at Owo. I did not step out of Owo to live anywhere else until 1975, first at Sobe and later at Usho, both under the then Owo Local Government Area, …