Opinions

  “A State in Bolivia just constructed a cassava processing plant in the country while Nigeria is the fourth largest cassava producer in the world with my State (Edo State) topping the list of internal producers in the country yet there are no singles cassava processing plant in the State. The one built in Uromi under the administration of Chief ...

  “No President initiated the importation of violence into the South and middle belt and indeed into the North West until President Muhammad Buhari and his cohorts like Governor El Rufai approached and encouraged the nomads of the Sahel to settle forests bringing cows and AK47. The Bandit and herder insecurity accompanied with violence, kidnapping was a Northern leadership initiative ...

  “A recent report by the National Bureau of Statistics puts the inflation rate on food and consumables at 33%, but I am still convinced that the rates could have been underestimated. Several factors and reports have pointed to these unfortunate developments in the previous years. In October 2023, the Food and Agricultural Organisation predicted that about 5 million Nigerians ...

   “Pertaining to his suggestions to tap into epistemic knowledge in Ifa, the Pentecostals pounced on them, just as the missionaries of the nineteenth century ruthlessly attacked Yoruba religion as “paganism.” In not understanding what Falola is suggesting, they confused epistemology with practice. Epistemologies are how we know how other people think and then convert that knowledge into philosophies. Falola ...

  This is my take: there’s no alternative than taming the Nigerian social media platforms and their sponsors in Nigeria because they are the most irresponsible advocates of ethno-religious vendetta and divisive dichotomy with their unrepentant and aggressively sensational brand of yellow journalism that glamourizes prejudices and promotes unmatched and contagiously hateful hypocrisy that could be compared with that of ...

  But while the Governor is set on continuing with his vision and agenda of development, it is imperative for him to also know and identity those intentionally disposed and genuinely unchangeable and in tandem with him to avoid falling into other concealed potholes or some other dangerous political booby traps, mischievously interwoven within the new political matrix. PEGASUS REPORTERS, ...

  “While I do not contest the rights of those who have expressed their opposition to the relocation of FAAN and those departments in CBN, and do not stand as a defender of President Bola Tinubu and his APC government, I wish to say that opposition to the relocation is ill-advised and should not have come from anyone who is ...

  “It is interesting to know that while she was yet in the Medical School in 2009, she proceeded to University of Arkansas @ Fayetteville USA to Study the History and Foreign policies of the US Civil Right Movement.“ PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JANUARY 21, 2024 Prof Akin Omoz-Oarhe a retired Head of Engineering UNIBEN, who has 4 medical doctorates ...

  “Just last Saturday, I attended a marriage ceremony with my wife. During the course of the marriage, my wife introduced a “lady” to me as one of her former students who used to help bring the class materials to our home. Dayo by name, had completely transformed into a lady by her appearance, dress code and speech. I used ...

  “Things are bad. No! Things are at their worst ebb. The middle class is eliminated, completely. What we have now are two contrasting stratifications of the super-rich, and super- poor. Poverty is shared in equal proportions. Those who have no reasons to beg are now corporate beggars. We are all engaged in ‘fine bara’. I am not exempted.” PEGASUS ...