“And the fact that the Central Bank of Nigeria declared a record-breaking surplus of $6.83 billion for the fiscal year 2024. This is the same bank that reported a ₦488 billion ($1.7 billion) deficit in the first quarter of 2020” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | APRIL 13, 2025 In the last twenty-four hours, Fitch Ratings upgraded Nigeria’s economy to a ...
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That Protocol Breach by the Burkinabe President: How Obasanjo and Femi Fani-Kayode set up Colonel Gaddafi – Reno Omokri
“Colonel Gaddafi’s female bodyguards tried to enter the International Conference Center, Abuja, with their weapons but were stopped by President Obasanjo’s Chief Security Officer, who had an argument with them and disarmed them at gunpoint before they were allowed into the venue with Colonel Gaddafi to join other African leaders” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JANUARY 11, 2025 I wrote ...
Read More »REACTION: Misled by Propaganda Against the Elder Statesman, Gen. Yakubu Gowon – Reno Omokri
“In fact, a year before Awolowo tried to get a secession clause into the Constitution, Nnamdi Azikiwe had threatened Northern Nigeria with war if they tried to secede from Nigeria at a speech he gave on Monday, May 12, 1953. Please find below a quote from that speech” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 24, 2024 The uproar by some ...
Read More »Politics: Why Waziri Atiku Abubakar should cut President Bola Tinubu some slack
“Faced with these realities, how would any responsible government have carried on spending $1 billion monthly on fuel subsidy and another $1.5 billion monthly defending the Naira and a further $300 million monthly subsidising electricity while servicing a total debt of almost $100 billion racked up by the previous administration with 92% of our revenue as at the end ...
Read More »NIGERIA: Gowon is not the enemy: Nnamdi Azikiwe is why Biafra has no legal right to secede – Reno Omokri
“When the 1954 constitution conference started, my good friend, Chief Obafemi Awolowo tabled a motion to the effect that in the new constitution, provision should be made that any state which feels like seceding should do so. I was opposed to it and said ‘no’ and said that once we have a federation, we are indivisible and perpetual” PEGASUS REPORTERS, ...
Read More »Economy: The Cybersecurity Levy is For Your Own Good – Reno Omokri
“If Binance had not been found out, and they had continued to funnel $25 billion out of Nigeria, that singular action would have meant that our Gross Domestic Product (the sum of all the wealth in Nigeria) would have dropped further by 6.5%.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MAY 8, 2024 This Cybersecurity Levy is not a policy or regulation ...
Read More »People & Culture: Without Yoruba, Nigeria would be a black and white television – Reno Omokri
“And as a people, the Yoruba possess great emotional intelligence. I believe it is an ethnic trait. They know how to relate to people on a personal basis. And they are able to suppress their emotions for their peace of mind. This humility is what some people see as cowardice. They pick their battles.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | OCTOBER ...
Read More »Politics: Open letter to the Peoples Democratic Party – Reno Omokri
“Let us face the truth. AriseTV and other irresponsible media got our hopes up unnecessarily. Chicago State University never denied Bola Tinubu. That was a big fat lie from Rufai Oseni, a corrupt journalist sponsored by Peter Obi, a rival of Mr. Tinubu.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | OCTOBER 12, 2023 It has been said that a person’s worst enemy ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »What Queen Elizabeth II’s Death Exposes About Biafra – By Reno Omokri
“Then the names of those killed were announced over the radio, and it was discovered that only people from the North, West and Midwest were killed, but NOBODY from the East was killed, whereas the vast majority of those who carried out the coup were from the East. That is the remote cause of the Nigerian Civil War.” PEGASUS ...
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