Columns

  “To win a presidential election, a candidate needs to win at least four of these blocs. No candidate, for now, dominates in four voting blocs” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | OCTOBER 13, 2022 Several weeks ago, my 80-year-old paternal uncle, who is a community leader, called me to ask whom between Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu he should vote and ...

  “Welcome, the environmental degrader, ‘Kpo-fire!’. It was the street name given to the illegal refining. Most militants that had little means of feeding a mother ship plunged into it. It was more like a leveler. Not only was this the beginning of black soot in Port Harcourt and her environs, but it is also the biggest environmental disaster as ...

  “Government does not run on a profit and loss basis all over the world. That is why every country contends with huge debt issues. Even the first World countries are not insulated from debts. Government’s responsibility is, among other things, to provide an enabling environment for people to pursue their legitimate aspirations without encumbrances” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | OCTOBER ...

  “It’s ludicrous and appalling that an Institution will pay salaries, give grants, award promotions and opportunities for international learning, to her academic members of staff, and all the academics do is abandon academia for another university on the privileges, given, by the initial Institutions” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | OCTOBER 5, 2022 In this week’s essay, our guest columnist/contributor and ...

  “Eighth, his statistical quotes are mind-bogglingly wrong, misleading, confusing, and misinforming. This points to a howling hollowness, spooky shallowness, and putrid half-education, which is more destructive than lack of education in itself. Is this your *”alternative to the status quo?” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | OCTOBER 2, 2022 First, you must convince people like me that the FEAR OF IGBO ...

  “And since the Universities themselves only encourage the insincerity of unrelated higher degree acquisitions and fruitless paper publications, how would the students not have felt their Education is a scam?” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | SEPTEMBER 29, 2022 Flashbacks to my younger days, you are choosing among becoming a Medical Doctor, Lawyer or Engineer; however, today, everyone is just himself. ...

  “Hello our own egbon and distinguished Senator (Alhaji) Abdullahi Adamu, the live-wire of the APC family! Hello, Turakin Keffi and National Chairman of APC, I am a Messenger with an urgent courier service to be delivered to you, from the anxious Gombe Youths, who have been generously empowered by the Gamji of our time, please. We want him in ...

  “And although critics say Tinubu is significantly older than the 70 years he officially claims, I have seen his transcripts from Richard Daley College (where he earned his associate degree, which is equivalent to Nigeria’s National Diploma) and Chicago State University (where he earned above 3.5 GPA on a scale of 4.0, which is equivalent to a First Class ...

  “Apparently, no one will be sanctioned in the Nigeria High Commission London or the federal ministry of foreign affairs more than two years after alerting them. The president’s remark in Imo state made this writer check the website and behold the shocker is still there! No one cares in the federal ministry of information” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | SEPTEMBER ...

  “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 ...