Author Archives: Oyakhamoh Carl-Abu'Bakar

No Bullshitting! Commonly Misused English Words & Phrases;  The Word & Concept Called “Ritual” – By Harry Agina

  Very commonly, when people hear the noun RITUAL, or it’s adjective, RITUALIST, the first connotation that jumps to mind is NEGATIVE; a killer, to be specific. Any person that is called a “ritualist” (especially in Africa), is commonly seen as a killer that offers human beings to the devil to make money. Here is a shocker for the persons ...

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IGBO BU IGBO: How Ndigbo Can Restore Their Lost Identity – By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu

  By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu The phrase  – Igbo bu Igbo – literally meaning ‘Ndigbo that are Ndigbo’ is usually used in addressing and greeting an Igbo audience. This three-word phrase, however, addresses a more fundamental issue, namely, the Igbo identity. Above all, it points out that though being born in Igboland or by (an) Igbo parent(s) or ...

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ODD WORLD: In Law, Permission to Have Sex is Not Permission to Ejaculate!

  Barrister Kunle Awoma A woman who agreed to sex might still be a victim of rape, the High Court has ruled. The most senior judge in England and Wales and two other judges said there was consensual penetration, but the man behaved aggressively and ignored the woman’s demand that he should not ejaculate. The woman had challenged a decision not ...

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R.E.F.L.E.CT.I.O.N.S – By Barrister Al-Hussein Momoh

  Author: Barrister Al-Hussein Momoh Some time this past week, I expressed my random thoughts on the COVID-19 vaccine. I wrote about what the Nigeria civil service will do when and if the vaccine ever gets to our shores. Today I reflect on the Global community’s attitude to Nigeria and Africa at large on “COVID-19 vaccine distribution”. Nations worldwide (including ...

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Ife Royal Prince Named after Adesoji Aderemi, the 49th Ooni of Ife

  The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has named his prince, born on the 18th of December 2020 after the 49th Ooni, Oba Adesoji Tadenikawo Aderemi. Pegasus Reporters had during the past one week broke the news of the delivery of the successor to the throne of Oduduwa. The announcement which was made in a social media post quoted ...

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RESPONSE: Why  Do They Hate And Fear The North Like This?

  By Cham Faliya Sharon The Good Book says, perfect love casts out all fear, and that there is no fear in love. In other words, when you harbour deep seated or even shallow hatred, you will  eventually live your life in perpetual fear and suspicion of what you hate, especially when the hatred is against a particular person or ...

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Fulani: The Making of a Borderless Empire

  A couple of years back, I had some business concerns in some neighboring countries where I had to appear in person. After the business day, I would go about in the evenings to “feel” the locality and attempt to understand the people. In all the countries near Nigeria, something profound struck me… the Hausa and Fulani communities in the ...

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LAMENTATIONS: Challenges of Graduate Courses and Thesis Defence in Nigerian Universities

On a Whatsapp research finding, Subscribers were ask to share their experiences in doing graduate courses in Nigerian Universities. In submissions that were utterly shocking, Pegasus Reporters bring to you, below what many of these graduands went through in the hand of some predatory lectures. Pegasus Reporters hopes that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Nigerian Universities Commission, ...

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NO BULLSHITTING! : The “Illuminati” Controversy: The Demonization of Progressive Free-Thinkers By the Church –  By Harry Agina

  Yap, you read my first topic right; your eyes are not playing tricks on you. Um huh, I do wanno get into the highly controversial subject of THE ILLUMINATI “Secret Society.” Note that I have SECRET SOCIETY in quotes, because it was called “secrete” in the 18th century not necessarily that it was doing anything terrible, no, sir/ma’am!!! Illuminati ...

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Who is Making the Nigerian Senate a Retirement Club of Ex-Governors?

  By Oyakhamoh Y. Carl-Abu’Bakar The dawn of the 4th Republic in 1999 created new vistas that are becoming fashionable and fast assuming a convention as retiring state governors transmute from their executive position to that of a Senator representing a third part of the state they once governed as chief executives. No one would ordinarily query such transmutation considering ...

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