“We are not inflexible in our negotiation with Twitter because we recognize both the positive and negative aspects of the social media…’’ AGENCY REPORT | AUGUST 21, 2021 The Federal Government says from the 10 demands put forward to lift Twitter suspension, the microblogging and social networking platform has acceded to seven. Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed disclosed ...
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Street Beggars Risk 10-Years Jail In Lagos As Government Empowers A Special Implementation Team
“Our investigation revealed that beggars and hawkers (children and adults) are transported regularly from other parts of the country to Lagos with the sole aim of doing this odious “business” that demeans humanity and abuses innocence in the case of children, who are being pushed into this degrading trade” OYAKHAMOH Y. CARL-ABU’BAKAR | AUGUST 21, 2021 The Lagos State ...
Read More »Sultan In Edo: More Negative Reactions Follow As Proposed Host Facility Disowns The Programme
The latest report is that the Chief Executive of Rialto, Osazuwa Aiwerioghenne Iduriase has warned the organizers of the event to desist from quoting his facility in their invitation cards. OYAKHAMOH Y. CARL-ABU’BAKAR | AUGUST 20, 2021 More reactions have trailed the report of an attempt to install a Sultan in Edo state as the Management of Rialto Hotel ...
Read More »Insecurity: Federal Government Urged To Remobilize Retired Soldiers
He further appealed to the federal government to equip them with modern tools for fighting all forms of crimes as bandits terrorizing the areas have more weapons. NAN REPORT | AUGUST 20, 2021 Sen. Ibrahim Abdullahi-Gobir (APC-Sokoto) has urged the Federal Government to remobilize retired security personnel to fortify security across crisis-prone areas in the country. Abdullahi-Gobir made the ...
Read More »RE-PIB ACT: Robbing Peter To Pay Paul – By Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, OFR, Ph.D.
“The panacea? Simple. The 36 States Attorneys- General should IMMEDIATELY approach the Supreme Court and challenge this latest Federal Government’s impunity and the outrageous acts of executive lawlessness and legislative rascality we are beholding, by invoking the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction under section 233(1) of the 1999 Constitution” PEGASUS REPORTERS | AUGUST 20, 2021 The PIB Bill just assented ...
Read More »OPINION: Taliban Is About Ethnic Nationalism, Not Religious Fundamentalism.
This observation shows that due to the country’s ethnic structure, democratic values and processes are foreign and not supported by the Afghan people. The people of Afghanistan supported the Taliban’s Emirate system and refuse an electoral democracy. PEGASUS REPORTERS |AUGUST 20, 2021 Taliban refers to students in Pashto. The Pashto language belongs to the Pashtun ethnic group in Afghanistan, ...
Read More »Lagos State Amended Criminal Justice Law Tame Police Excesses
“The new law bars the police from harassing or torturing a suspect before or after arrest” PEGASUS REPORTERS | AUGUST 20, 2021 THE LAW: The Amended Criminal Justice Law of Lagos state as passed recently by Lagos State House of Assembly has illegalized certain excesses usually perpetuating by men of the Nigerian police during arrest and prosecution of suspects. ...
Read More »Edo Awake As Northern Group Allegedly Moves to Crown Sultan in Benin Kingdom
The president of the Benin Solidarity Movement (BSM), Elder Curtis Eghosa Ugbo, warned that Benin indigenes will do whatever it will take to resist imposing a Sultan in the city, The Punch reported. He said: “This will never happen in Benin Kingdom, we are Benin.’’ OYAKHAMOH Y. CARL-ABU’BAKAR | AUGUST 19, 2021 Groups in Edo state have rejected the ...
Read More »It’s Injustice To Pamper Boko Haram and Hunt ESN And Igboho – ACF Tells Buhari
“And what is the difference between them and the Ighoho’s or ESN of Nigeria? None” PEGASUS REPORTERS | AUGUST 19, 2021 The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has vehemently told president Muhammadu Buhari that his pampering of Boko Haram insurgents is tantamount to running with the hare and hunting with the hound. The group, therefore, gave the president two options ...
Read More »Grand Council Of Yoruba Youths Felicitates With Olofa Of Offa On His Birthday…
“To both of you, we say “Many Happy Returns”. PEGASUS REPORTERS | AUGUST 19, 2021 The socio-political group, Grand Council of Yoruba Youths has congratulated the Olofa of Offa on his 58th birthday anniversary. In a press statement signed by the group’s the President-General of the group, Comrade AWA Bamiji of August 17th, 2021, the statement reads: “We felicitate ...
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