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  ‘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 ...

  ‘Boer was born and raised in Jos, Nigeria to Christian Reformed missionary parents. He graduated in 1997 as a second-generation Calvin student and is married to Joanna Bachew, from Trinidad & Tobago, who graduated from Calvin in 2003’ PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JUNE 1, 2022 Not a few Nigerians were amazed when the story broke that Nigerian-Dutch has declared ...

  Survivors Of Kwashiorkor: The 55th Remembrance Day For Biafra Heroes PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MAY 31, 2022 It was May 1967 at Aba (Enyimba City)! We were in elementary six in primary school and looking forward with enthusiasm to sit the Primary School Leaving Certificate examinations, as well as completing forms for admission into Secondary Schools for the next ...

  The power of Igbos in abridging the influence of their gods was proven in the 1980s at Nnewi when the town agreed to clear the dreaded Edo evil forest to build the Agbo Edo International Market. The initial attempts by the state government’s contractors to clear the forest were resisted and frustrated by the deity as powerful snakes, bees ...

  “Digging deep into the philosophy of our elders, I found this prayer – “Ọlọ́run ma jẹ ka gba wèrè mọ ẹ̀sìn”! (God help us not to mix madness with religion). Evidently, the Yorùbá differentiate between wèrè (madness) and ẹ̀sìn (religion)” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MAY 17, 2022 When many nations are regressing into a culture of religious hatred, hostility, ...

  To this end, I recommend the immediate setting up of the NIGERIA RE-WORK EMINENT PERSONALITIES TEAM (NREPT) whose Executive Secretary shall be Dr Father Matthew Kukah, and Chairman, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Co-Chairman, The Sultan of Sokoto. Other recommended members are IBB, TY. Danjuma, Gowon, Abdusalam, Pastor E A Adeboye, plus 12 opinion leaders, two from each geo-political Zone ...

  “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 ...

  He concluded that “In my view, it is the appellants rather than the deceased who committed an offence against Islamic or Sharia by their unjustified action which represents to the public that Sharia is an uncivilized and primitive system which allows or permits the killing of people without complying with the due process of law”. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | ...

  In the last two decades, one man that has consistently proved that tremendous public good can be achieved when a visionary leader is in the driver’s seat is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In just 22 years, Lagos has, unarguably, witnessed a remarkable transformation. This achievement is not by happenstance, but rather through deliberate and methodical planning and execution. PEGASUS ...

  As Concord’s Group Political Editor, I had gotten, on a Thursday, an “exclusive” on what transpired at Babangida’s AFRC (Armed Forces Ruling Council) emergency meeting the previous day and their resolution on political actors to be arrested and news media to be shut down. I thereafter alerted Dele Alake about the development with a view to farming around it ...