Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide to launch a radio Ijangbara on January 1 to promote the Yoruba self-determination struggle.
Newsonline reports that the Apex body of Yoruba Self-Determination Struggle, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide (IOOW) will formally unveil RADIO IJANGBARA as the official broadcast radio of the Yoruba Self-Determination Struggle on Sunday, January 1st, 2023.
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The online radio shall broadcast live from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The launch, according to the statement, will kick off by 8 pm West African Time and will be broadcast live on Zoom.
According to a joint statement signed by the Chairman and General Secretary of the group, Professor Wale Adeniran and Dr. Tunde Amusat respectively, the radio shall serve the interest of the Yoruba self-determination struggle within and outside the shores of Nigeria.
Adeniran and Amusat said everyone can listen to the radio through its website, www.ijangbararadio.com and the mobile application of the radio can be downloaded via the Google play store.
“We are inviting all Yoruba self-determination activists to the launch and formal unveiling of Ijangbara Radio on 1st January, 2023. This radio is being donated by Ilana Omo Oodua, being the apex body, to serve as the official broadcast radio of the Yoruba self-determination struggle,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide has announced the appointment of an Ado-Ekiti-based medical doctor, Adebayo Orire and a former Chairman of Kajola Local Government Area of Oyo State, Alhaji Alli Oyedeji, popularly known as Baba Dodo, as Patrons of the station.
Oyedeji hails from Okeho in the Kajola Local Government Area of Oyo State. He was Chairman, Kajola local government between 1996 and 1997.
The statement described him as a “respected community leader” who once served as a “member of Governing Council of The Polytechnic of Ibadan and National Salaries and Wages commission”.
Orire is a “grassroots mobiliser, community leader and currently, the Chairman, Elite Mobilization Committee of Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide. He contested twice unsuccessfully, for the Governorship of Ekiti State”.
According to the statement, Orire and Oyedeji will “work with the Worldwide Executive Council of Ilana Omo Oodua to ensure that its aims and objectives are actualised, impeccably”.
