Every Yoruba Ọba knows that the Fulani are the enemies of the Yoruba people, and have been the enemies of the Yoruba people since the 1800s. Every Yoruba Ọba knows that the Fulani have no respect for the office of…
Our ref: maga/myga/210425 21 April 2025 President Donald Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington DC 20500 c/o Ambassador Jane Hartley United States Embassy 33 Nine Elms Lane Nine Elms London SW11 7US Dear President Trump Re: …
Our ref: 1888treaty/ukpm/210425 21 April 2025 Sir Keir Stammer Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA Dear Sir Re: Letter before claim re: the 1888 Britain-Yorubaland Treaty On 18 March 2025, I wrote to you requesting that you invoked…
On 23 January 2025, I wrote to the UK Prime Minister in my capacity as leader of the Yoruba Party in the UK (YPUK) respectfully requesting for ‘Arbitration regarding a Treaty concluded between Britain and Yorubaland on 23 July 1888’,…
On 13 February 2004, we formed the Yoruba Party in the UK (YPUK) to give voice to the Yoruba community domicile in the UK. We have moved at breakneck speed ever since. First, in July 2024, YPUK stood a candidate…
A treaty of friendship and preferential trade that Britain concluded with Yorubaland in 1888 has been in concealment for more than a century. The Yoruba Party in the UK (YPUK) seeks its immediate implementation in accordance with British and international…
The Yoruba of yore created for themselves ‘Orile Ede Yoruba’ meaning Land Exclusive to the Yoruba-speaking peoples, and made Yorubaland into an independent self-governing country. On 1 January 1914, in the act of Amalgamation, Britain without consent incorporated the independent…
Agitation for self-determination for Yorubaland (Oduduwa Republic) began as long ago as 1967 when campaigners rallied in London jointly with agitators for Biafra. Several Yoruba self-determination organisations have since formed; some have coalesced into ‘umbrella’ groups like the Yoruba Self-determination…
Baasegun at Scheduled meeting of the Yoruba Party in the UK (YPUK) – 14 January 2025 There is a Bible story in which David, a small man, defeated Goliath, a giant. David achieved this feat by using an instrument that…
I write in my capacity as the leader of the Yoruba Party in the UK (YPUK) to seek support for the implementation of the 1888 Britain-Yorubaland Treaty. On 23 July 1888, Queen Victoria, the Queen of Great Britain, and Alaafin…
