“As of December 12, 2024, the number of the party’s members in the House has dwindled from 35 to 17, meaning that the party has lost 18 seats in one and a half years. In the Senate, Senator Francis Onyewuchi, who represented Imo East on the LP platform, also dumped the party to join the APC” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS ...
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EDUCATION: Inaugural Lectures should not be celebrated – Benjamin Adebisi
“So, after 25 to 30 years of reading from outdated textbooks and archaic laboratory work, we stand before the whole world to read out what we have done and afterwards entertain them with rice, chicken and drinks and that’s all; everyone goes home and the career is concluded and no solution is brought” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 15, ...
Read More »RELIGION: Holy Prophet Muhammad in the Bible (Part Two) – Lionheart ACS Oyakhamoh
“In the Bible, one of the most misquoted comments credited to Jesus reads: “I am the truth, the way and the light; no one cometh unto the father but by me”. The issue here is the word FATHER. To get a proper answer, let us visit the very beginning of the Bible and in particular the Lord’s Prayer” PEGASUS ...
Read More »OPINION: Beyond The Removal of Dele Farotimi’s Handcuffs – By Femi Falana SAN
“In several WhatsApp groups, petit bourgeois lawyers and journalists have congratulated themselves for the social media campaign that compelled the prison management to discard Mr. Dele Farotimi’s handcuffs. However, on a daily basis, lowly placed criminal suspects are handcuffed to and from the several High Courts and Magistrate Courts in all the states of the Federation and the Federal ...
Read More »The Nation: The Effects of “Emilokanomics” to a Reactive North – Shettima Dan’Azumi
“The lottery is worse because the majority of our states think the whole business is haram. But wait, is it not a double standard that you are operating in a secular state, collecting VAT revenue generated from breweries and royalties from casinos, including the lottery for all these years while still believing it’s haram?” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER ...
Read More »Islam: Is the Argument over Fidau Prayer worth the time? – By Abdul-Ganiyy Raji
The Prophet (SAW) said: ” Shame on him, shame on him. They asked him, “Who, O Messenger of Allah?”. He said: “He who meets his two parents or either of them alive and he does not make Paradise through them by loving and caring for them) PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 13, 2024 In the last couple of days, ...
Read More »In the Matter of Dele Farotimi before the Star Chamber – By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
“Three years ago, Ekiti State enacted the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, no. 12 of 2021, which repealed and replaced the state’s pre-existing Criminal Code Law of 2012. Comprising nine parts, 429 sections and 140 pages, Ekiti State’s Criminal Law of 2021 does not include the crime of Criminal libel or defamation” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 11, 2024 ...
Read More »Motherhood: The Position of Islam in In-Vitro Fertilization [IVF] Birth – By Sharia Scholar, Prof. Alaro
He further explains, “There are couples whose sperm and eggs are in good condition, yet God has not granted them the power for their gametes to meet and fertilize automatically. This is where medical intervention steps in.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 10, 2024 Infertility has long been a deeply emotional and challenging issue for many couples, testing their ...
Read More »The Charade of Council Elections in Nigeria – By Ehichioya Ezomon
The irony of council elections in Nigeria is that their conduct has attracted little or no monitoring and reporting by election observers, and civil society organisations (CSOs), who overlook unbridled rigging at the polling units, where votes may not be counted, declared and displayed, and collation of results done behind the scenes…” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 10, 2024 ...
Read More »Is Chief Afe Babalola Contradicting His Own Previous Legal Arguments by Seeking to Prosecute Dele Farotimi for Criminal Libel? -Dr Ope Banwo
“By choosing to file his petition in Ekiti State, Chief Babalola has effectively determined both the forum and the manner in which Farotimi will answer the charges. Ekiti is a state where Babalola is not only an influential figure but also a mentor to some members of the judiciary” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 8, 2024 In this essay, Dr ...
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