Estimated Reading Time: 1Chairman of Council of Amotekun Commanders in the South-west region, Chief Adetunji Adeyeye, has revealed ongoing plans to make operatives of the Amotekun corps engage in inter-state border patrol in the South-west. Adeyeye, who is the Corps Commander of Ondo Amotekun, said the interstate patrol would ensure[Read More…]
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Amotekun arrests over 100 cows in Ondo
Estimated Reading Time: 1Operatives of the Ondo State Security Agency codename Operation Amotekun have arrested over 100 cows. The cows were arrested Akure/Ilesa road on Sunday in accordance with the state government’s directives that unregistered herders should not graze in the state. NewsWireNGR gathered that the herders took to their[Read More…]
‘Amotekun will be deployed to protect COVID-19 vaccines in Ogun’ says Governor Dapo Abiodun
Estimated Reading Time: 1Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, says the state government will deploy operatives of the Amotekun security outfit to protect the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines being processed for distribution to the state by the Federal Government. Abiodun said this on Thursday during a meeting with 20 local government transition[Read More…]
Herdsmen crisis: Amotekun says Ibarapaland is now safe
Estimated Reading Time: 1The Commandant of the Oyo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun, Retired Col. Olayinka Olayanju, has said that the troubled Ibarapaland which was the centre of the recent herdsmen crisis in the southwest region is now safe and free of insurgency. He claimed this off the back[Read More…]
The leader of the Amotekun Association in Oyo State has died
Estimated Reading Time: 1Amotekun leader of Kajola Local Government Area of Oyo State in southern Nigeria has died. Mr Tajudeen Salaudeen has died in a car accident. He was involved in an accident while trying to avoid a pothole in the Sawmill area on Ilero Road. Nigeria’s Vanguard newspaper reported[Read More…]
Motorcycle riders are working as spies for kidnappers – Amotekun says
Estimated Reading Time: 1Chairman of Oyo State Security Network codenamed Amotekun, Col. Kunle Togun has said that okada riders in the state work as spies for kidnappers. Togun speaking on the insecurity challenge faced in Oyo State on Monday said kidnappings in the state is facilitated by foreigners who enter[Read More…]
Oyo PDP alleges APC is behind production of fake Amotekun uniforms
Estimated Reading Time: 4The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Oyo state chapter, yesterday, said that it suspects opposition parties in the state of having a connection with the production of fake Amotekun corps uniforms for sponsored hoodlums to cause mayhem in the state with the aim of blackmailing the Makinde led[Read More…]
Oyo Amotekun dismisses officer for killing 23-yr-old motorcyclist
Estimated Reading Time: 2Following the killing of Tosin Thomas, a 23-year-old commercial motorcyclist in Ibadan, the management of the Western Security Network codenamed Amotekun Corp has dismissed the officer that killed the youngman. Amotekun gave the name of the officer, who fired the shot that killed Thomas as Kazeem Afolabi[Read More…]
Some people are using lies and disinformation to discredit Amotekun – Seyi Makinde
Estimated Reading Time: 2 Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has raised the alarm that some people are using lies and disinformation to discredit the Oyo State Security Network codenamed Amotekun. Makinde expressed this concern at the government house in Agodi on Wednesday. He said Amotekun is a creation of the[Read More…]
‘What was a so-called student doing with a locally made pistol” Amotekun responds to killing of university student
Estimated Reading Time: 4The Oyo State Security Network Agency, Operation Amotekun, has said that its operatives did not kill any student of the University of Ibadan. On Thursday, hundreds of youths from Oyo town had stormed the Oyo State Government Secretariat in protest of the alleged killing of a student[Read More…]
