Tag Archives: Emmanuel Ogebe

  Hon. Minister, we cannot return to the personalization of state assets of the brutal Abacha era where Abacha’s son misused a presidential jet and crashed it. This is a taxpayer funded airline, but we were also paying customers in a purely commercial contract. This is unacceptable! PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MOVEMBER 4, 2024 Ibom Air’s Flight delay: investigate and ...

  “Like many lawyers, I believe that candidates should have 25% of votes in Abuja because of the disadvantage. The rationale is equity and fairness, and I compare it with the U.S., that this is the Nigerian equivalent of the Electoral College (but more fair.)” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | SEPTEMBER 9, 2023 Nigeria’s epic presidential election challenge, which I had ...

  “The principle that crime doesn’t and mustn’t pay is fundamental to legal jurisprudence universally and a bad precedent of rewarding the perpetrators and ignoring the victims should not be created” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JANUARY 28, 2023 A prominent victim of Gen. Abacha’s human rights abuses has approached a US Court urging it to stop the repatriation of Abacha’s ...

  “Secretary Blinken has introduced a new level of diplomatic fraud that is befuddling and tragically reminiscent of Holocaust-denial and more recently “election-denial.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS, DECEMBER 7, 2022 Last week, the US State Department published the list of countries with Religious Freedom violations. Nigeria, which research shows has been the deadliest country in the world for Christians for nine ...

  “Given this finding, the US authorities determined they could not rely on luck next time and having urged Nigeria to take stronger action as they did not want to pull out of the country, and not seeing a robust crackdown, ordered the mass evacuation. As an intelligence official said, “We have to be secure 100% of the time but ...