Opinions

  “Any nation that has the misfortune of being led by an insular, mendacious president with a provincial mindset inevitably ends up in existential crises, as Nigeria has experienced in the past six years. How else could Miyetti Allah be so emboldened to constantly stoke the fires of ethnic strife and threaten anyone who stands in their way without even ...

  “The West’s ghoulish attitude towards Africa smacks of epicaricacy and is another manifestation of the white power structure’s narrative that black lives don’t matter” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 5, 2021 Dear Editor, Re: Africa and The Pandemic’s True Death Toll I read with disgust the Economist Twitter thread published on 29 November 2021 titled, How should the world ...

  “Meanwhile, it is a rude shock that the learned silk just discovered his alleged “illegality” of the Panel over a year since it was constituted up till the point that it submitted its reports. This sudden attack on the legal validity of the panel is strange and quite suspicious.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 30, 2021 Festus Keyamo SAN, ...

  It was quite surprising that David got the video clip straight from the station before anyone else, edited the short clip of where Abike was apparently warning the presenter, posted just that bit on his social media handle, even before the station uploaded it on its YouTube page. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 30, 2021 The Abike Dabiri-Eruwa video ...

  “You see that part where the man and woman promise fidelity to each other and to love each other in good time and bad till death?. . . That is the kpim. That is the consent…The function of the priest or pastor or Deacon is to accept their consent in the name of the church in the presence of ...

  PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 21, 2021 Recently, top-ranking Igbo leaders under the aegis of Highly Respected Igbo Greats, led by First Republic parliamentarian and Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, were at State House in Abuja to plead for a political settlement of the detention and trial of IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The report available so far ...

  “I held his gaze, sighed, and very clearly told him: “Don’t be afraid. I won’t harm you. I’ll help you get better. But I want you to know that my father lived in the UK for many years. It was never his home and he never forgave you” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 16, 2021 She was a 14 ...

  “When you sneak away from your wife to call your girlfriend in the bathroom, and she asks if you will come this weekend, you must say—in addition to “Yes”—“By God’s grace” or “God willing”. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 11,  2021 How they worship  that Nigerian god they call upon every time they sacrifice ethics on the altar of ...

  “By the way, in May 1968, my uncle (my mother’s younger brother) was shot in his Warri street residence in Port Harcourt, his corpse butchered, his flesh sold as Biafra meat in Mile 1 market. That same day the Nigerian Army opened up and started shelling Port Harcourt, which was ultimately liberated” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 1, 2021 ...

  “The present drumbeat of war in the Southeast is driven by dirty politics carried too far. Feeding the flame of passion with provocative rascalism, insults and abuses, ethnic hate propaganda… All that is required is the “Big-Lie” strategy as propounded by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister of the Second World War : ‘Tell the lie boldly and repeatedly, ...