Nigeria at 66: Yoruba group demands sovereignty talks with NASS

The Committee for the Actualisation of Yoruba Self-Determination (CAYSD) has called on the National Assembly to urgently convene talks among Nigeria’s constituent ethnic nationalities on the future of the country, including the possibility of an independent Yoruba nation.
In a statement issued on behalf of CAYSD by its director, Prof Ademola Araoye, and signed by 43 prominent Yoruba leaders and stakeholders on Wednesday, titled “For the Good of All: It’s Time to Convene Sovereignty Talks,” it said Nigeria’s longstanding political crisis could no longer be addressed solely through elections or adjustments to the existing political structure, insisting that fundamental questions about the...