“My trust has broken down completely and even the minimum restraint that we’ve learnt to expect from seasoned politicians has been jettisoned completely.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | APRIL 4, 2023 Prof. Wole Soyinka has come down hard on the 2023 general elections and the rhetoric of political actors which he said he’s been following since he returned from an ...

  “To everybody’s surprise, however, and without my being consulted at all on the matter, it was my name that my father put forward as the candidate from the Anikinaiya ruling house…In the rapidly changing context of our modern times, they must have felt that choosing an elderly or uneducated person to become the Awujale would not be in the ...

  “I don’t want to believe the rumour that Obi was a member of the infamous Association for Better Nigeria (ABN), led by late Senator Arthur Nzeribe, that was responsible for annulling June 12 and truncating the third republic, as I have not seen evidence to that effect” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | APRIL 5, 2023 There was this story in ...

  “Available data from the Debt Management Office revealed that Chinese loans make up 84.73 percent of the total amount Nigeria owes to other countries of the world. The remaining 15.27 percent is spread across France, Japan, India, and Germany” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | APRIL 3, 2023 According to Punch Report on Monday, April 3, 2023, Nigeria’s total bilateral loans ...

  “Even though the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja (FCT) is not a State properly so called, the Constitution has clothed it with the toga of a State. In other words, the FCT is treated like a State, and all the powers of a Governor in a State are vested in the Minister of the FCT” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | APRIL ...

  “Since the Federal Government had banned all forms of rally that have to do with the May 29 inauguration, we the June 12 Veteran Activists, World famous, long-standing, and Pro-Democracy Activists in Nigeria and abroad promised to abide by it” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | APRIL 3, 2023 WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE: “COALITION FOR A BETTER NIGERIA (TROUBLE SHOOTERS) VS ENEMIES ...

  “The PDP chieftain and longtime rival of Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, had said he would go on exile if the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won the February 25 presidential poll” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | APRIL 3, 2023 A former Deputy National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, says it is ...

  “When they discover that we have our own security before they will come, they will know that we have our own men there. I am not saying a single word to be hidden. I am not hiding my words, let my words go viral. Igbo must get their right and get stand in Lagos State,” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | ...

  “Today, it takes a fake dream to imagine—or a hallucination to see—a window for an interim government. A public warning issued by the DSS confirms that the senescent creatures are still at their old trade, using weak-hearted politicians who cannot stomach defeat. Luckily, the nation has unanimously condemned them. This is not a Nigeria of 1980s or 1990s. We ...

  “The security guards insisted that the University is a Christian University and does not permit Hijabs on their premises and as such the candidates could not enter. Some candidates removed their Hijabs in order to gain entry, while Maryam the daughter of Mr. Olayode, and two others who did not remove their hijabs were denied entry” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS ...