©Pegasus Reporters The Bola Ige Centre for Justice commemorated the 17th anniversary of the late legal luminary, former governor of greater Oyo state and ex-attorney-general of Nigeria who was murdered in his bedroom by still to be found assassin, on 23 December, 2001. In an opening speech, the Executive President of the forum, Comrade Awa Bamiji tasks the Buhari ...

  The 774, 000 Special Public Works (SPW) jobs will now commence on January 5, the Federal Government said on Sunday. Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, when speaking with the Nation on Sunday in Abuja. The programme, designed for artisans to do public works for three months for N20,000 per month, suffered setbacks in commencement date ...

  Chief Audu Ogbeh, immediate past minister of agriculture and chairman, ACF, was recently quoted as saying that politics is the only industry in Northern Nigeria. His statement intrigues me for two reasons. One, I have often wondered why the north which has ruled the country longer than all the other regions put together is in dire straits. If it ...

  A new wave of fraud perpetuated by criminal elements has hit the nation as we enter the end of the year with market women and traders losing millions to fraudulent “finance house” Disguised as loans and fiance houses, Ekiti state was the first victims where Atlas Initiative Scheme according to Pegasus Reporters investigation duped by unsuspecting trader and borrowers ...

  Arrangement has been concluded by the Bola Ige Centre for Justice to stage the 19th year Bola Ige memorial Syposium on Thursday 17th December, 2020, at Osun Hall, Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos State, by 11am prompt, with Parcitipants, majorly Youth and Student Leaders drawn from the 6 Geopolitical Regions of Nigeria. The Topic “19th year after Bola Ige: ...

  The Gazette/NAN Report Ugandan authorities have commenced legal action against famous Nigerian music duo, Stanley Omah Didia, aka Omah Lay, and Temilade Openyi, popularly known as Tems, for allegedly violating the country’s COVID-19 guidelines. The singers were arrested on Saturday night at the Ddungu Resort in the capital Kampala, alongside another Nigerian, Muyiwa Awoniyi — an artiste manager and ...

  By Olukayode Salako No matter how good a president might think he is, if the North doesn’t want him to succeed, especially in the area of security, it would be hard for him to achieve it. We saw the evidence to this assertion, when other previous presidents were also in power. During the times of almost every president in ...

   By Tim Wu, Americans are taught that the main function of the U.S. Constitution is the control of executive power: curtailing presidents who might seek to become tyrants. Other republics have lapsed into dictatorships (the Roman Republic, the Weimar Republic, the Republic of China and so on), but our elaborate constitutional system of checks and balances, engineered largely by ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned, the gruesome attack on Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina state, by suspected terrorists, leading to reported deaths and abduction of no fewer than 600 students. The PDP, standing with the entire Katsina people, charged President Muhammadu Buhari, as the commander-in-chief, who promised to lead from the front, to account for the ...

  Agency Report Lagos health commissioner Professor Akin Abayomi, in a statement on Saturday said Sanwo-Olu is in isolation undergoing treatment for coronavirus after his test result returned positive according a report by the News Agency of Nigeria.   “Following Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s exposure to a confirmed case of COVID-19, a PCR test performed yesterday, the 11th of ...