Opinions

War on Gaza: Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) Writes an Open Letter to Israeli Prime Minister

  “All we see in Gaza is death, blood, body fluids & innards spilt, pasted & spread all over the streets & buildings, human limbs that have been shattered, scattered & torn apart, tears, mayhem, carnage, barbarity, cold-blooded mass murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, crimes against humanity, unadulterated cruelty, unrelenting callousness, undiluted perfidy & the most graphic & extreme ...

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Islam and El-Rufai’s Diversionary Political Opportunism: Islamism or Political Prebendalism – Mallam A. M. Abdullahi

  “This attitude has become part of his prattling equivocations to dazzle and deceptively compromise some innocent and unsuspecting but patriotic Muslims who feel legitimately alienated by former President Obasanjo’s assaults against Islam and Muslims particularly, the Yoruba Muslims in the Southwestern geopolitical zone.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 23, 2023 This is a timely clarion call and an early ...

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Politics: Tin Gods and the Nigerian Conundrum – By Dele Obamodi

  “Strengthening it further, their godfather, FCT Minister Nyesom Wike on whose behest this rather contemptuous move was made is not only a lawyer but has also said it at different fora that you cannot leave a party under which you contested an election and won for another party and still retain your seat in the House.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS ...

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Tudun Biri Accidental Bombing: Stop Dr. Ahmed Gumi from Trivializing the Integrity of Islam – Mallam Abdulkarim M. Abdullahi

  “I’m sure that, every responsible Muslim and even non-Muslims in Nigeria are already aware that the Nigerian Muslim community/ummah has ONLY ONE SPOKESMAN, which official mandate belongs only to the Sultan except when he has decided to delegate a representative. And I am not aware, yet, of the Sultan of Sokoto officially identifying Dr. Ahmed Gumi as his representative.” PEGASUS ...

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Ethnic Rivalry in Nigeria: Iwuanyanwu & Ewuare II: From Revisionism to Perversion – By Remi Oyeyemi

  “But as a bona fide Yoruba son with Omoluabi ethos, one would not disrespect an elder who holds his age in contempt. An elder who oozes ossiferous egotism. An elder who radiates an odorous demeanor. An elder who marinates in the natatorium of falsehood, deceit, duplicity, distortion, and fabrication.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 8, 2023 When a supposed ...

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Restoring Justice in Nigeria’s Long Walk from Freedom: An Imperative for a Fair Society by Hon. Justice J.O. Ogebe JSC (Rtd)

  “I also reecho the call of my learned brother Justice Dattijo Muhamed in his recent valedictory calling for a bifurcation of the chair of NJC and FJSC from the office of the CJN. The danger is that when you have a bad actor at the center, all three institutions will be dysfunctional but splitting it increases the prospects for ...

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Economy & Finance: Die if you like, American dollar will rise – By Oni Gbolabo

  In a country where the cost of traveling for treatment abroad for officials will build world-class hospitals should not talk about naira against dollar parity. Money taken on that trip is part of the stress on forex. Same as forex spent on pilgrimage, let religion fanatics keep off me here. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 3, 2023 Appreciation and ...

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EDO 2024: Obaseki’s Ingratitude Now Seeking Laundry – By Kassim Afegbua.

  Now, Phillip Shuaibu has dared his boss, and declared his ambition to run. Welcome to Edo state’s version of A Game of Thrones and Thorns. Get yourselves some popcorn, fasten your seat-belt, put a drink beside you, and off we go to the cruising altitude of comedy, tragedy and political tragi-comedy. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 1, 2023 Experience ...

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Like Lamidi Apapa, Vultures Gathering Against Julius Abure & Labour Party Will Fail – By Agho Ighodao

  “For the clandestine group’s education, Barrister Julius Abure is the buffer and the bulwark upon which the Labour Party toiled and rolled to victory, regardless of brazen impunity; daylight robbery and the rap of democracy carried out by the All-Progressives Congress (APC) in the last general elections.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 14, 2023 Yesterday in a badly worded ...

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Allegations of Yorubanization of Nigerian Government by President Tinubu: An Appraisal by Farooq Kperogi

  “Nigeria’s minority groups, too, have their grievances; one of which is the erroneous assumption, always, that only the major ethnic groups matter. Some of President Tinubu’s appointments have been sensitive to the need to change that narrative.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 8, 2023 Have the President’s appointments been fair? Have they been equitable? Some say he has not ...

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