Tag Archives: History

Throwback: How John Yahaya Madaki, Aide-de-Camp to Major General I.D. Bisalla, Escaped Execution in 1976.

  Dozens of officers testified that Bisalla publicly snubbed him during the NDA reception, and Dimka also corroborated his story during interrogation that they never discussed the coup because Madaki arrived too late for the briefing. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MARCH 5, 2025 He said for many years as a young officer he was the ADC to Major General Iliya ...

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A Ricochet from the Past: Royal chat with the Late Ooni of Ife, HRM – Oba Okunade Sijuade, Olubuse II

  “Apparently, some people told a big lie against me and the Emir of Kano. It was the Alaafin, who went to Abiola to sell to Abiola that I went to Israel and that I took the Emir of Kano to Israel as a camouflage and that I had earlier gone to Germany to recruit some killers and that I ...

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Nigeria’s Civil War: What Southeast Elders refused to teach Post-Civil War Igbo youths – Reno Omokri

  “Every family in former Biafra owes a debt of gratitude to the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo. But sadly, many parents who should have taught their children this documented history have instead filled them with hatred by regaling them with wartime propaganda.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JUNE 20, 2023 This piece is a response by iconoclastic social media influencer, Reno ...

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Our History: Horrific Days in a February: Multi-years Invasion of Benin kingdom, & Brutal Massacre by Colonial British

  “On February 9, 1897, Benin Kingdom is invaded. 9 battleships of the British Royal Navy sail in haste, across the Atlantic Ocean. They are loaded with maxim guns, cannons, and bombardments. Benin’s fortified periphery is quickly breached” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MARCH 3, 2023 One Hundred and Twenty-Six Years to this February, an environmental holocaust was unleashed in a ...

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