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  “The Nigeria Government needs to work out strategies to make available several factors of production, like stabilizing electricity distribution, making power affordable, upgrading machines and training of workers in handling sophisticated modern equipment for production, licensing and permission of land use, thereby increasing massive production of goods and services for exportation.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | FEBRUARY 17, 2024 The ...

  “For industrialization, Nigeria must prioritize the development of strategic industries that leverage technology and innovation to drive growth. The focus should be on areas wherein there is a comparative local advantage in terms of resource requirements, above-average technical and technology competencies, ease of development, deployment, and scaling, as well as strategic partnerships that leverage the country’s deep market opportunities.” ...

  This is my take: there’s no alternative than taming the Nigerian social media platforms and their sponsors in Nigeria because they are the most irresponsible advocates of ethno-religious vendetta and divisive dichotomy with their unrepentant and aggressively sensational brand of yellow journalism that glamourizes prejudices and promotes unmatched and contagiously hateful hypocrisy that could be compared with that of ...

  “Our civil servants actively run private businesses during work hours. They sabotage processes in exchange for bribes. They facilitate corrupt practices by compromised officials. They barely put in a dedicated 2 hours of work daily out of the 8 hours of employment. But they expect to be fully remunerated for their inefficiencies” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | FEBRUARY 12, 2024 ...

  What is the difference between the Psalms and the Yoruba àyájó, ofò and ògèdè (evocation, invocation and incantation)? A Christian speaks in tongues, a language that is only understood by the Spirit. Another man recites àyájó, another set of esoteric language. Who among them is serving a “Living God”? PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | FEBRUARY 9, 2024 It is a ...

  But while the Governor is set on continuing with his vision and agenda of development, it is imperative for him to also know and identity those intentionally disposed and genuinely unchangeable and in tandem with him to avoid falling into other concealed potholes or some other dangerous political booby traps, mischievously interwoven within the new political matrix. PEGASUS REPORTERS, ...

  “While I do not contest the rights of those who have expressed their opposition to the relocation of FAAN and those departments in CBN, and do not stand as a defender of President Bola Tinubu and his APC government, I wish to say that opposition to the relocation is ill-advised and should not have come from anyone who is ...

  “It’s now clear that what made Plateau State an insensitive killing field, according to reports from Bokos LGA was the mobs induced killing of an innocent Fulani herdsman driving in his vehicle, at Mutura Vet, who was attacked and killed, after his body had been doused in petrol in his burning car boot before the arrival of the Nigerian ...

  It therefore makes perfect sense for the NIMC to leverage the message of access to palliative cash transfers and other socio-economic benefits that will accrue from listing on the social register to deepen, and update, the national identity database. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JANUARY 17, 2024 In April 2023, the Federal Government announced that Nigeria had secured an $800 ...

  As I transcribe this Ngas Classical Poem by a yet-to-be-identified Ngas rural woman, tears trickle down my eyes, for I just discovered the message of love, anguish & celebrations, fused together by the ‘great poet in her. The Poem by Yet Identified Ngas Woman, which I titled “Love, Anguish & Celebrations” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | JANUARY 13, 2024 Initial ...