Author Archives: Oyakhamoh Carl-Abu'Bakar

Banditry In Plateau: Kill Anyone You See With Illegal Weapon — Buhari Orders Soldiers

  “The Commander-in-Chief, President Muhammadu Buhari has asked us to gun down anybody seen carrying an illegal weapon and we must carry out the order. Those people must be criminals. You have to go into the bush and clear them wherever they are hiding”. OYAKHAMOH Y. CARL-ABU’BAKAR | AUGUST 10, 2021 Despite heavy troops’ presence in the state, plateau state ...

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PDP Crisis Deepens As Secondus Says “Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere Boys”

  “He was apparently reacting to a statement by Kingsley Chinda of the House of Representatives asking him to resign. Chinda is a protege of the Rivers state governor, Nysom Wike, who is championing the call for Secondus to resign” OYAKHAMOH Y. CARL-ABU’BAKAR | AUGUST 10, 2021 Embattled people’s Democratic Party Chairman, Prince Secondus has released a statement saying that ...

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Ife Grand Resort and Industrial Park Commissioning: Yoruba Youths Salutes Ooni Of Ife

  “The Leadership quality of Kabiyesi, love for youth empowerment and his strong passion for the socio-economic development of Osun State in general and that of Ile-Ife are highly commendable and have been once again openly demonstrated with the historic commissioning of these two important Business Centres. We couldn’t do otherwise than to say “Kudos for taking these giant steps” ...

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Buhari’s Government Welcomes  New Batch Of Repentant Boko Haram/ISWAP Fighters; Bishop Kukah Cries Injustice.

  Kukah who spoke in a sermon titled “Nigeria: Before our glory departs,” said the Buhari administration has shown that crime pays, yet wants victims of crimes to be patriotic. He warned that unless victims of crimes are prioritized by the government, Nigeria will never heal. PEGASUS REPORTERS | AUGUST 10, 2021 The President Muhammadu Buhari government has continued its ...

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Soldiers Told Me, They Had No Order To KiII Or Stop Rampaging Herdsmen — Plateau Traditional Ruler Reveals

  “I don’t blame the local government chairman in Bassa or the governor of the state over the calamity that has befallen my people. At peace meetings, the governor will give orders but the security men will go and do a different thing” PEGASUS REPORTERS | AUGUST 10, 2021 The Ruler of Irigwe ethnic nationality in Plateau State, High Royal ...

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COVID-19 Vaccines: Updates from Medicine.com

  COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Researchers across the globe are working to develop a vaccine. Currently, there are 138 candidate vaccines. Today, there are 41 candidate vaccines in stage 3 clinical trials. So far, 21 vaccines have been authorized across several countries. PEGASUS REPORTERS | AUGUST 10, 2021 08/09/2021 12:28 GMT — U.K. health ...

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Enugu, Anambra Observed Total Compliance With IPOB’s Sit-At-home Order

   “The ever-busy and gridlock-prone, Niger Bridge was a ghost of itself from both Onitsha and Asaba, the Delta State capital ends were completely deserted, just as the two pedestrian cross of both sides of the bridge were completely deserted” PEGASUS REPORTERS | AUGUST 10,2021 Residents of Enugu state have observed a sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra, ...

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IPOB Sit-At-Home Order: Between Emotion And Reason – By Charles Ogbu.

  “But, when the academic future of innocent Igbo children are being jeopardized by a group that ought to be protecting that future, then it becomes an ‘nso ana’ (abomination) for any real Igbo to keep quiet even if saying something might attract death or threat of it from our own people. I was an ad-hoc staff of the National ...

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What’s Behind Growing Separatism in Nigeria? – US-Council on Foreign Relations Report

  While there are numerous advocates of separatism, the two most prominent are Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho. They share some goals—and an enemy in the federal government—but their ethnic bases are different. PEGASUS REPORTERS | AUGUST 10, 2021 The resurgence of separatism in Nigeria—a consequence of the federal government’s failure to provide security in the face of multiple threats—is ...

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Africa & Authoritarianism: What Can We Do About It? – Prince Machela

  “Zuma remains African. His mentality is in line with Boko Haram. He is suspicious of educated people; what he calls “clever blacks”. Remember that Boko Haram means “Against Western Education” PEGASUS REPORTERS | AUGUST 9, 2021 Below is an interesting article on this topic as done by Prince Machela of The Sowetan Times wrote regarding the post-apartheid South Africa and ...

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