Opinions

  “As an organization, (KnowIslam) we have consistently stated in numerous forums that no religion encourages violence and no religion encourages the taking of lives under whatever guise, and this is one of the victories that God is giving to the Church in the sense that united we can always defeat the forces of darkness that have conspired to destabilise ...

  ‘Okay, if you say Tinubu is corrupt, what of Atiku? Guess what, how many northerners are daily shouting how corrupt Atiku is? The kind of scathing testament about Atiku written by a man who knows him best, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in his book, My Watch is enough to disqualify someone from ever holding a public office. But did you ...

  ‘There is only one aspirant in the APC shed that can match Atiku, and even surpass him, as far as talking politics, and election victory is concerned. Aside from the base, the spread, and the political might both in strategy and resources; Tinubu is light years ahead of Atiku, in terms of achievements, and dividends of a lifelong political ...

  To our minds then, the main issue was the challenges of a Muslim-Muslim ticket especially as Buhari was at the time considered a “no-no” in the Christian communities. In order to address this challenge, my friend and I approached Tinubu with a proposal that he should nominate a “loyal” Christian as running mate to Buhari. We emphasized the word ...

  “Another woman who sells soup condiments along the same rail line said the scheme is marred with extortion. “We thought they were going to help us but they did not. They even collected N1,000 each from us and we registered but we did not get any money.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MAY 27, 2022 Somehow, politics was never made ...

  “One day, while on duty heading a Unit, a beautiful Yoruba girl, Atinuke, had crossed Seme Border to the Republic of Benin (then Dahomey) and smuggled in some ‘Ankara’ materials. On her return, she was caught by the Customs and dragged to their boss Atiku. WAO! Atiku loved what he saw…” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MAY 22, 2022 He ...

  “The Quran has examples and examples of prophets being insulted and injunctions that those doing the insulting be left alone. There is a story of Prophet Muhammad himself officiating at the funeral of a man who insulted him, a man whose Son wanted to kill because he insulted Prophet Muhammad, but who Prophet Muhammad had to stop” PEGASUS REPORTERS, ...

  “The truth however is that his decision to run against the position of millions of his supporters will definitely not end up well for him. It has always been so for people who run against their own will in deference to what had been presented to them as a rather altruistic motive to change their course. It is usually ...

  “Clearly, the Quran doesn’t even remotely hint at the death sentence for those blaspheming against it or Islam. But unfortunately, the behaviour of extremist groups claiming to be Muslims and the introduction of the so-called sharia law in some so-called Muslim countries has led the media to wrongly point fingers at the religion of Islam in general” PEGASUS REPORTERS, ...

  ‘While I am not denying the astuteness of Professor Osinbajo as a legal scholar, to simply attribute his emergence as the Vice President to being “noticed” by the “Northern establishment” as a “genius” is to distort and deliberately falsify political development and history we all know and partook in.’ PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MAY 14, 2022 I read with ...